May 26, 2022
Russian hackers and Brexit. Shane Huntley @ShaneHuntley Article on latest Russian efforts. The "English Coop" website was linked to what the Google knew as...
May 25, 2022
An airline in India is suffering a ransomware attack. The interesting thing is that passengers trapped on planes that cant take off are tweeting from the...
May 24, 2022
Crypto. Scam. Fraud. Fascinating case of what to do when a smart contract is exploited. Is it fraud, or just a savvy investor taking advantage of an...
May 23, 2022
One of 40 Russian delegates to the UN resigned because he’s ashamed of his country. He posted a resignation paper on his LinkedIn. Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer...
May 22, 2022
Great observation Justin Troutman @justintroutman Teaching cryptography to non-cryptographers has been most enlightening for students, and me, when we...
May 21, 2022
Sort of interesting news from Ukraine on the cyber front. I missed this earlier, but there’s apparently a link between missile strikes on Odesa and...
May 20, 2022
Huge news. The Feds won’t use the CFAA to go after security researchers, pinky promise! Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker Wow. DOJ has announced a significant...
May 19, 2022
Another indictment of Chinese covert operations. switched @switch_d U.S. Citizen and Four Chinese Intelligence Officers Charged with Spying on Prominent...
May 18, 2022
We open this newsletter with a banger. A free book of case studies of Russian espionage operations. Free! Book! Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot Russian...
May 17, 2022
Someone just noticed that Kaspersky is Russian.. CNAS @CNASdc The authorities are "really the only tool that we have to deal with the threat posed by...
May 16, 2022
The Ukrainian military is extremely good at enabling lower echelon leaders to operate independently with initiative. Russia has a more Soviet style top down...
May 15, 2022
A mini compilation of pictures documenting embarrassingly bad black bag jobs. Kitzy @heykitzy A MacBook Pro came back from a trip to China with half of its...
May 14, 2022
Intelligence analysis on “foreign countries doing war” is… not very accurate. They’re 0 for 2 in the last 12 months. US intelligence community launches...
May 13, 2022
Max Goodhart @chromakode New York City is like Linux: - Spend the first year re-learning how to perform basic tasks - Spend the rest of your lifetime...
May 12, 2022
👣ℙ𝕖𝕕𝕣𝕠'𝕤 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕖🇺🇲 @OfAthenry When I tell you that you'll invent new curse words, believe me. May 10, 2022 Crypto. Fraud. Scam. Ben Golub 🇺🇦 @ben_golub "the...
May 11, 2022
Matthew Green @matthew_d_green Speaking of actual free speech issues, the EU is proposing a regulation that could mandate scanning of encrypted messages for...
May 9, 2022
Hi everyone. Just a quick note to inform you that this week I have even less time than I initially anticipated. I was hoping to be able to do a digest, but I...
May 8, 2022
Uncle Duke @UncleDuke1969 Growing up, Sesame Street taught me the importance of education, empathy, and kindness. Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, taught me...
May 7, 2022
Ukrainian Memes Forces @uamemesforces May 6, 2022 FSB counterintelligence is a bit of an institutional embarrassment these days, quite frankly. Shashank...
On the gulf between desire and reality
CERT-IN's VPN logging announcement in context The latest rules by CERT India asking VPN providers to collect user data or face jail terms is interesting...
