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I problemi della Scienza – #scienza #ricerca #PeerReview ed #editori nella diretta di Giacomo Moro Mauretto di #EntropyForLife con Giovanni Spitale
Nella Live di stasera intervisterò Giovanni Spitale, ricercatore, amico e autore del libro: "Mi fa male la scienza" che ho avuto la fortuna di leggere. Con lui parleremo di diversi temi che in larga parte saranno anche definiti dalle vostre domande.
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📢 #Cyber Threat Landscape Italia – Q2 2025 | è online sul forum per la #community!
🛡️Aprile-Giugno in un report di fonti aperte: analisi malware, infostealer e ricerche del #GTI di Google 👉 insights e dati su #threat rilevanti
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KW 31: Die Woche, in der sich die Überwachungspläne bei uns stapelten
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🚀 Creative Transformation Summit 2025: Where Culture Hacks the Future
📅 When: 12–16 November 2025
📍 Where: La Térmica, Málaga (Spain)
Europe’s rebels, makers, and policy-weavers: assemble! The @pacesetters consortium is throwing a summit where culture infects climate action and social change—because systemic collapse requires creative solutions!
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LockBit: evoluzione delle tecniche di sideloading DLL e masquerading del ransomware - (in)sicurezza digitale
LockBit continua a distinguersi tra le famiglie ransomware più sofisticate e persistenti in circolazione, grazie all’evoluzione costante delle sue TTPDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Quando la fiducia diventa un’arma: abuso del link wrapping per il phishing tramite Proofpoint e Intermedia - (in)sicurezza digitale
Gli attaccanti continuano a fare leva su una delle risorse più difficili da difendere: la fiducia. L’ultima evoluzione in tal senso si inserisce in unaDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Enquête over Gaza
Onlangs hebben wij een enquete gehouden over de situatie in Israel en Gaza. Ruim 200 van jullie hebben gereageerd en dat motiveert ons om in de toekomst vaker dit soort onderzoeken te doen onder onze leden. De belangrijkste uitslagen van de Gaza-enquete zijn als volgt: Ben je er voorstander van dat er een partijstandpunt wordt […]
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Targeting und Transparenz: Bald greifen die neuen EU-Regeln für politische Online-Werbung
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„Schmutzige“ Arbeit: Deshalb wollen Influencer keine Influencer mehr sein
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Dettagli OSINT sugli ultimi attacchi: ShinyHunters, dietro a Salesforce - (in)sicurezza digitale
La recente ondata di violazioni dei dati ha coinvolto alcune delle aziende più note a livello globale: Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH e Adidas. Il comuneDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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The right to data protection and the battle for privacy: NOYB's 2024 annual report is published today!
Almost 7 years after the GDPR came into force, noyb remains one of the leading European forces fighting for the fundamental right to data protection for all users. To date, our legal work has resulted in administrative fines totaling €1.69 billion. Our results in 2024 once again demonstrate that we can make a difference: in addition to filing 36 new complaints, we also obtained several new decisions from the authorities and even a ruling from the European Court of Justice (CJEU).
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Annual Report 2024 out now!
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Bastian’s Night is a live talk show in German with lots of music, a weekly round-up of news from around the world, and a glimpse into the host’s crazy week in the pirate movement.
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🇩🇪🚨Leak: Viele Länder, die noch 2024 die #Chatkontrolle gestoppt haben, sind jetzt unentschieden - darunter Deutschland! netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-…
Die Bundesregierung (BMI, BMJV, BMWE, BMDS, BMBFSFJ) entscheidet bis August - werdet jetzt laut! chatkontrolle.de
Internes Protokoll: EU-Juristen kritisieren dänischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle
Dänemark schlägt wieder eine weitreichende verpflichtende Chatkontrolle vor. Der Juristische Dienst des Rats bezeichnet auch diesen Vorschlag als rechtswidrig. Ob das Gesetz noch kommt, könnte von Deutschland und Frankreich abhängen.netzpolitik.org
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@Kierkegaanks That is so much better! Thank you!
On a side note, I'd like to translate the article from chatcontrol.eu to Romanian, would that be fine with you? I don't know if my blog has any audience, but it'd still be helpful to make this post accessible to more people 😄 (of course, under the CC-BY-4.0 license)
Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec
On a Friday afternoon in mid-June, independent journalist Jack Poulson made a curious discovery: An article that we published about the aggressive attempts of a San Francisco-based tech executive named Maury Blackman to censor Poulson’s reporting about his sealed domestic violence arrest had, itself, disappeared from Google search results.
After Poulson alerted us that day, we immediately investigated that weekend. Even when searching for the article’s exact headline – “Anatomy of a censorship campaign: A tech exec’s crusade to stifle journalism” – it didn’t appear on Google search. It did, however, show up atop results on other search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing. No other articles published by Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) seemed to have been suppressed by Google.
A Google search conducted by FPF on June 17 of the exact headline didn’t return the article. Other FPF articles appeared normally.
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The article removed from Google search reported on a sweeping, persistent effort by Blackman or his apparent representatives to silence reporting by Poulson and his nonprofit Tech Inquiry.
The censorship campaign started after Poulson reported in 2023 about the executive’s 2021 arrest on suspicion of domestic violence against his then-25-year-old girlfriend in San Francisco. Blackman, 53 at the time, was never charged or convicted, and the alleged victim recanted her statements. A California court sealed the arrest report in 2022.
Shortly after the publication of Poulson’s article, Blackman resigned as CEO of Premise Data Corp., a surveillance technology firm with U.S. military contracts.
When Blackman was still Premise’s CEO, the company hired a private investigation and security service firm, and filed legal requests in an attempt to unmask Poulson’s confidential sources. Someone claiming to represent Blackman submitted fraudulent Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests targeting Poulson’s article. Blackman’s attorneys also roped the San Francisco city attorney into an intimidation campaign against Poulson and Substack, which hosts his newsletter.
These tactics all failed.
But that wasn’t all. Blackman also filed a baseless defamation lawsuit against Poulson, his website hosts, and Tech Inquiry that was later dismissed on First Amendment grounds under California’s anti-SLAPP statute (SLAPP, a strategic lawsuit against public participation, refers to legal actions brought to chill speech). Blackman is appealing the dismissal.
And in April, Blackman even filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco for allegedly releasing the arrest report. One of the exhibits to a later filing included a May 2024 letter sent by Blackman’s lawyer to an individual that he thought was Poulson’s source, threatening legal action and demanding a $7.5 million settlement payment.
How Google search was exploited
There are several well-known tactics used to suppress or remove results from Google search. Copyright claims (legitimate and frivolous), court orders (real, forged, or otherwise fishy), and warning letters from government agencies have all been used to disappear search results from Google, sometimes as the result of the work of shady reputation management companies.
Our article, however, was vanished from Google search using a novel maneuver that apparently hasn’t been publicly well documented before: a sustained and coordinated abuse of Google’s “Refresh Outdated Content” tool. (In 2023, in response to a public support request flagging the abuse of the tool to de-index pages, Google’s search liaison said that the company would look into it further, but provided no additional information. The request has since been locked and the replies disabled.)
Google’s “Refresh Outdated Content” tool
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This tool is supposed to allow those who are not a site’s owner to request the removal from search results of web pages that are no longer live (returning a “404 error”), or to request an update in search of web pages that display outdated or obsolete information in returned results.
However, a malicious actor could, until recently, disappear a legitimate article by submitting a removal request for a URL that resembled the target article but led to a “404 error.” By altering the capitalization of a URL slug, a malicious actor apparently could take advantage of a case-insensitivity bug in Google’s automated system of content removal.
That is exactly what happened to our article about the censorship campaign against Poulson. Someone reported an invalid variation of the article’s URL and requested its removal from Google search results. When Google’s crawler encountered the “404 error” following the report, it not only de-indexed the reported URL but also erroneously removed the live, valid article, possibly alongside every other variant of the URL, from search results.
Each time our original article was re-indexed by Google, someone submitted a new removal request for a slightly modified, oddly-capitalized version of the URL’s slug, triggering the same process, and so on. This cycle allowed the person or people submitting the reports to continuously suppress our article from search visibility — resulting in a game of digital Whac-A-Mole.
Nine removal requests targeting the same article on FPF’s site between May 7 and June 23, 2025.
(Screenshot/Google Search Console)
Once we identified the pattern, we took action by canceling the active removal requests in our Google Search Console and manually re-indexing the article so it would reappear in Google search results.
But we weren’t the only targets of this de-indexing scheme. After we alerted Poulson about what we had found, he discovered that two of his articles were similarly targeted using the same Refresh Outdated Content tool during the same time frame as ours.
In total, the two Poulson articles were targeted using this method 21 times. Our article was targeted nine times. The attacks on both websites spanned the same period, May 7 to June 23, strongly suggesting that a single actor was behind the campaign and that the campaign was forced to an end once Google introduced its fix.
Google’s ‘rare’ response and fix
When we reached out about the removal of our article, a Google spokesperson confirmed the abuse to us in an emailed statement on June 27. Initially, the company told us that the Refresh Outdated Content tool “helps ensure our search results are up to date,” adding that they are “vigilant in monitoring abuse,” and that they have “relisted pages that were wrongly impacted for this specific issue.”
This vague response did not explain whether Google already knew about the vulnerability of its tool for abuse, and was unclear about whether only our and Poulson’s pages had been re-indexed, or other websites were also impacted by similar attacks.
In a response to another question about whether this vulnerability has been widely exploited and how many other web pages could have been improperly de-indexed as a result of the abuse of this tool, the spokesperson claimed that “the issue only impacted a tiny fraction of websites,” which is a very unhelpful answer given the internet’s 1 billion websites.
Upon pressing Google with another round of detailed questions about our findings, the company was more forthcoming: “Confirming that we’ve rolled out a fix to prevent this type of abuse of the ‘Refresh Outdated Content Tool,’ the spokesperson said, but added that they “won’t be able to share anymore on this.”
While Google did the right thing by fixing this vulnerability, it’s disappointing that the company is unwilling to be more transparent. Google says that it’s committed to maximizing access to information. If that’s true, it has an obligation to the public to be transparent about how its products can be misused in such a basic way to censor speech.
Did Google know about the problem before we alerted it? Is it aware of other methods used to maliciously de-index search results? The company isn’t saying. But at least now that Google has confirmed that they’ve introduced a universal fix to avoid further exploitation of that bug, we can reveal the scheme’s details.
Google allowing those other than sites’ owners to remove pages from Google search results “is obviously a huge problem,” said Jason Kelley, director of activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The other issue is the lack of transparency from Google. Site owners would probably never find out if this feature was used to impact their search results, and probably never will find out that this had happened to them now that it’s corrected.”
Kelley described the company’s admission of the issue’s existence and taking it seriously as “rare.”
(EFF lawyers represented Poulson in the case.)
‘Legal failure’
Poulson told us it was “humbling” to realize that a 600-word article on the CEO of a surveillance firm could lead to such cascading censorship efforts, including the recent effort to “sabotage Google search results.”
“Blackman’s attempt to use the courts to scrub his felony arrest report and related news articles from the internet was not just a legal failure,” Susan Seager, a First Amendment lawyer who represents Tech Inquiry, told FPF. She added that his libel and privacy lawsuit against Poulson, Tech Inquiry, Substack, and Amazon Web Services “brought even more publicity to his arrest.”
On Tuesday, Poulson, Tech Inquiry, and Substack were awarded close to $400,000 in attorneys’ fees by the San Francisco Superior Court.
Who might be behind it?
Because Google does not document who submits removal requests through the Refresh Outdated Content tool, we have no way of knowing for certain who was behind the attempts to suppress search results featuring articles by us and Poulson.
We reached out to Blackman, who is now the CEO of a reputation management agency, ironically named The Transparency Company. We asked whether he or one of his associates reported our or Poulson’s articles using the Refresh Outdated Content tool or otherwise attempted to have Google de-index or suppress them. He didn’t respond to our requests for comment.
The good news is that all three articles — ours and Poulson’s — are restored on Google search, and Google claims to have fixed this problem. Plus, the new round of censorship inspired a new round of reporting, including the article you’re reading right now and a new article by Poulson, also published today.
Maybe now, anyone attempting to abuse legal or technical tools to censor journalism will learn the hard truth about the Streisand Effect: it will almost inevitably draw more attention, not less.
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La vulnerabilità critica che scuote le Vibe Coding Platform: il caso Base44
Negli ultimi mesi si è assistito a un’accelerazione senza precedenti nello sviluppo delle cosiddette Vibe Coding Platform (VCP), ambienti cloud-native alimentati da intelligenza artificiale p…Spcnet.it
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Orange sotto attacco: analisi e scenari dietro l’incidente informatico al colosso francese delle telecomunicazioni - (in)sicurezza digitale
Il 28 luglio, Orange – il più grande operatore di telecomunicazioni francese – ha confermato un attacco informatico contro i propri "sistemi informativi".Dario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Start-ups in der Rüstungsbranche: „Man kann hier von einem neuen militärisch-industriellen Komplex sprechen“
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Internes Protokoll: EU-Juristen kritisieren dänischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle
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Tea Dating App sotto attacco: due data breach in una settimana e oltre 1 milione di messaggi sensibili esposti - (in)sicurezza digitale
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Verfassungsbeschwerde: Was darf die Polizei mit einkassierten Handys machen?
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La guerra cercata
Data engulfs us, 6h40/day for Europeans. Phones, cards, servers trace us, unseen.
Metrics turn life to numbers. Never neutral. Govts chase compliance, corps track engagement. What counts? What’s erased?
We must question this!
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The invisible infrastructure
How IT infrastructure shapes public life, and how alternatives like free software and open formats can offer healthier paths forward Data is everywhere. Europeans spend on average about 6 hours and 40 minutes online each day.Mihaela Tudorache (News From Dyne)
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⚠️ Important announcement 📢
Tomb 2.13 is out with a fix for a regression: the password prompt in 2.12 garbles the password to unlock the tomb, preventing tombs from opening.
𝗡𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗯𝘀.
🟢 Fix: upgrade to 2.13
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Cyberattacco ad Aeroflot: la guerra ibrida si sposta nei cieli digitali - (in)sicurezza digitale
Il 28 luglio 2025, il mondo ha assistito a uno degli attacchi informatici più audaci degli ultimi anni: oltre 100 voli cancellati, sistemi IT paralizzatiDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Just released Tomb v2.13 with an important bugfix to a regression that prevented tombs from opening in many cases. Details are in KNOWN_BUGS for anyone curious enough. The previous release was definitely short lived! Download links and docs: dyne.org/tomb
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Tomb is a minimalistic command line tool based on Linux dm-crypt and LUKS, trusted by hackers since 2007.Tomb
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FPF sues DOJ for Trump memo on Qatari jet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), represented by nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight, filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for failing to release a legal memorandum that reportedly justified the Trump administration’s acceptance of a $400 million jet gifted by the Qatari government in May.
The luxury aircraft — set to be retrofitted for use as Air Force One to the tune of hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars and later transferred to President Donald Trump’s private foundation — has raised serious legal and ethical concerns. Multiple experts and lawmakers from both parties have raised questions about whether accepting such a gift from a foreign government violates the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause and federal ethics rules. Additionally, while Trump claims Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a “gift” to him, media reports the opposite is true — his administration approached Qatar.
“It shouldn’t take 620 days to release a single, time-sensitive document,” said Lauren Harper, Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy. “How many flights could Trump have taken on his new plane in the same amount of time it would have taken the DOJ to release this one document? The government’s inability to administer FOIA makes it too easy for agencies to keep secrets, and nonexistent disclosure rules around donations to presidential libraries provide easy cover for bad actors and potential corruption.”
“President Trump’s deal to take a $400 million luxury jet from a foreign government deserves full public scrutiny — not a stiff-arm from the Department of Justice,” said Chioma Chukwu, executive director of American Oversight, which is representing FPF in its litigation. “This is precisely the kind of corrupt arrangement that public records laws are designed to expose. The DOJ cannot sit on its hands and expect the American people to wait years for the truth while serious questions about corruption, self-dealing, and foreign influence go unanswered.”
The May 2025 memorandum, reportedly signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who previously lobbied on behalf of the Qatari government, purportedly concluded that the Trump administration’s acceptance of the jet was legally permissible. The administration accepted the jet just days later. The circumstances surrounding the jet deal, including reports that the transaction may have been initiated by the Trump administration and that it followed a lucrative Trump private business arrangement in Qatar, have only heightened calls for transparency.
News that the luxury jet will be donated to Trump’s private presidential library foundation after he is no longer in office follows reports that ABC News and Paramount, which was seeking government approval for a merger with Skydance, resolved litigation with President Trump by agreeing to multimillion-dollar payouts to the foundation.
FPF submitted its FOIA request for the Bondi memo on May 15. Although the DOJ granted expedited processing, the department informed FPF that the estimated time for fulfilling the request was more than 600 days. As of today, the DOJ has failed to release any responsive records or provide a further timeline for production.
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L'expérimentation officielle de vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA) conduite au nom des Jeux Olympiques s'est terminé en mars et elle est loin d'être concluante.
Plutôt que d'avouer son échec, le gouvernement décide une fois de plus de passer en force : il propose de prolonger de deux ans la surveillance des comportements en sortant un nouveau prétexte de son chapeau : celui des Jeux d'hiver qui se tiendront dans les Alpes en 2030 !
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Jeux Olympiques 2030 : vous reprendriez bien un peu de VSA ?
La lutte contre la vidéosurveillance algorithmique (VSA) est une bataille de longue haleine. L'expérimentation officielle, menée au prétexte des Jeux Olympiques, s'est pourtant achevée fin mars et a été émaillée de multiples défaillances.La Quadrature du Net
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iOS 26, Pixel 10 e smartwatch economici: l’autunno tech si prepara alla sfida dell’accessibilità
Con l’estate che volge al termine, l’autunno 2025 si preannuncia bollente per il mondo tech: tra l’uscita della beta pubblica di iOS 26, l’attesissimo Pixel 10 di Google e l’arrivo di una nuova ond…Spcnet.it
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Shanghai testa i “RoboCop” per dirigere il traffico: futuro distopico o progresso inevitabile?
In un video che sta facendo il giro del mondo, Shanghai ha introdotto veri e propri robot “RoboCop” per gestire il traffico urbano. Humanoidi a grandezza naturale, con divise ufficiali …Spcnet.it
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Router abbandonati: un arsenale di 0-day pronto all’uso
I dispositivi obsoleti rappresentano una minaccia spesso sottovalutata. Un recente studio condotto da Trail of Bits durante la competizione DistrictCon…Dario Fadda
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Dyne.org foundation
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- Panels where artists and policymakers argue like old friends (then build solutions)
- Exhibitions that melt the boundaries between speculative fiction and infrastructure
- Policy labs where bureaucracy gets a playful redesign
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