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TikTok’s latest actions to combat misinformation shows it’s not just a U.S. problem


Fake news, disinformation, misinformation – whatever label you want to put on it – will not just go away if one election in the U.S. goes one way or the other.

A contract between an NSO Group reseller and a customer in Ghana exposed the information, including a promise that MMS Fingerprint required “No user interaction, engagement, or message opening ... to receive the device fingerprint.” ( Politico, DarkReading) The report states that the OT data stolen may cause “unintended disruption to critical industrial processes or provide the adversary with crucial intelligence to aid in follow-up offensive tool development or attacks against ICS networks.” ( SecurityWeek, The Register) Joe Marshall from Talos’ Strategic Communications team will tell an incredible story of how a group of engineers and security professionals from a diverse coalition of organizations came together to solve this electronic warfare GPS problem in an unconventional technical way, and helped stabilize parts of the transmission grid of Ukraine.

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