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http://www.gdi.foundation/
Last activity: 25.12.2025
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Location
United Kingdom
Employees
1-10
Founded date
2015

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Dec 24, 2025EU warns of possible action after the US bars 5 Europeans accused of censorshipGetting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LORNE COOK, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — France, Germany, the European Union and the United Kingdom on Wednesday hit out at a U.S. decision to impose travel bans on five Europeans the Trump ...
Dec 24, 2025US Imposes Visa Bans on Five Europeans Over Alleged Pressure on Tech PlatformsSecretary of State Marco Rubio and President Trump. Image: Creative Commons A long-simmering transatlantic fight over online speech spilled into immigration policy this week, as Washington moved to block several prominent European figures a...
Oct 22, 2020Hacker says he correctly guessed Trump’s Twitter password—it was “maga2020!”Enlarge Aurich Lawson reader comments 303 with 179 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit A security researcher reportedly logged in to President Trump's Twitter account last week by guessi...
May 1, 2019Job recruitment site Ladders exposed 13 million user profilesLadders, one of the most popular job recruitment sites in the U.S. specializing in high-end jobs, has exposed more than 13.7 million user records following a security lapse. The New York-based company left an Amazon -hosted Elasticsearch da...
Mar 13, 2019Someone in China Built a Creepy Database of 1.8 Million Women and Their 'Breedready' StatusVictor Gevers, an ethical hacker from the non-for-profit organisation GDI.Foundation, was scouring the net for open Chinese databases when he found one that caught his eye. Like many open databases it appeared as simple code against a black...
Feb 19, 2019When surveillance meets incompetenceLast week brought an extraordinary demonstration of the dangers of operating a surveillance state — especially a shabby one, as China’s apparently is. An unsecured database exposed millions of records of Chinese Muslims being tracked via fa...
Aug 25, 2017Leak of >1,700 valid passwords could make the IoT mess much worseEnlarge Michael Theis / Flickr reader comments 54 with 46 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Security researchers have unearthed a sprawling list of login credentials that allows anyone...
Jan 6, 2017Copycat Hackers Are Holding More Than 1,000 Databases for RansomSomeone has been hijacking and locking insecure databases running on the MongoDB open-source program, asking owners for money in return for their data back. Now, copycats are trying to do the same, scouring the internet for other vulnerable...

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