We have yet to see a reporter with access to Tom Cruise ask him about this: Sixteen years ago, in September 2004, Cruise dazzled the Scientologists assembled at an “Ideal Org” grand opening in Madrid by delivering a short speech in Spanish. When he was finished, he came off stage and shook hands with his [...]

 On July 2 Australia’s 7News network teased a 10-part series titled ‘Scientology Black Ops’ that would feature journalist Bryan Seymour.

In the trailer, we saw footage of Leah Remini and Mike Rinder, and also of director Paul Haggis, who has not given a TV interview since he appeared on Leah’s A&E series in 2017. And [...]

Akamai reckons it blocked what may be the largest distributed denial-of-service attack ever, in terms of packets per second.…

Barclays Bank appears to have been using no less than the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine as a "content distribution network" to serve up a Javascript file.…

 For years we’ve been keeping an eye on Scientology’s attempts to take advantage of natural (and man-made) disasters as public relations opportunities with the use of their “Volunteer Minister” corps.

And the church did not disappoint when it came to the mother of all disasters, the coronavirus pandemic, as yellow-clad VMs were dispatched around the [...]

Miscreants have been nabbing supermarket chain Tesco Clubcard discount codes to snap up Hotels.com rewards meant for holders of the retailer's loyalty cards.…

[Brian Statler]

Yesterday, Brian Statler’s sister Krystle Statler posted a petition online demanding that the Inglewood Police Department finally begin sharing information about what happened when police officers shot and killed her brother in 2019.

We’re not sure what the odds are that the Inglewood agency, which has been so obstructionist to this point, will be moved [...]

[Scientology’s ‘Ideal Org’ off Times Square got a PPP loan]

Yesterday the Trump administration released data about thousands of companies that received loans of $150,000 or more that were intended to help “small businesses” get through the coronavirus health crisis.

Multi-billion-dollar international religious organizations don’t appear to fit that description. But among the recipients of loans [...]

 Twice recently we heard from families going through the now-familiar Narconon nightmare: Desperate to find help for a son or daughter, they are fooled by Scientology’s slick online operation that convinces parents they are talking to a legitimate drug rehab. And only after sending their loved one across the country at great expense do they [...]

Web traffic to the servers of the notorious Dutch-German Cyberbunker hosting biz was filled with all kinds of badness, including apparent botnet command-and-control and denial-of-service traffic, says SANS Institute.…

The Maze ransomware gang has screwed up by targeting a New York design and construction firm instead of the Canadian Standards Association it was intending to hit.…

Maze ransomware masterminds claim to have stolen source code from LG after hacking into the electronics giant.…

Yamato, a city in Japan, became the first municipality in the country

 Rod Keller has the week off and we need to get through the holiday weekend, so forgive us for taking a momentary break from reality. But, hey, what the hell.

A few days ago Justin Craig posted this video after recording it at around 1 in the morning (he said), exhausted with how things have been [...]

18 months ago, the 'virtue-signaling' Bank of England stuck a knife between the

Authored by Barbara Boland via The American Conservative,

Social media businesses are making moves to block Hong Kong authorities from accessing their user data, days after Beijing imposed a new national security law on the territory.…

Greece and Turkey are once again at odds over the fate

A trio of Republican senators on Tuesday proposed legislation that requires service providers and device makers in America to help the Feds bypass encryption when presented with a court-issued warrant.…

Authored by Yanis Varoufakis via Project Syndicate,

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After sliding to 2,983.5 in early Sunday trading on fears of a second wave of covid

This morning we have the somewhat unprecedented situation