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April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025

The security company that had its CEO arrested for allegedly installing malware on hospital systems is actually called Veritaco. It appears to be a small two-man outfit in Oklahoma. And the firm's LinkedIn feed kinda raises more questions than it answers. https://t.co/WGXrKluSWi pic.twitter.com/yqn0fLV1sx

โ€” Brian in Pittsburgh (@arekfurt) April 27, 2025


Why Children of Men haunts the present moment

How Alfonso Cuarรณnโ€™s 2006 dystopian masterpiece became the cultural exemplum of apocalypse, and a cardinal citation in the time of coronavirus.


#SpyNews - week 17 (Aprilย 20-26):
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โ€” Spy Collection (@SpyCollection1) April 27, 2025


https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/meet-frances-war-philosophers/


Did you know that there is a monument to NotPetya in Moscow? It was installed by INVITRO, a Russian medical firm & one of the victims of the 2017 global attack initially aimed at Ukraine. INVITRO's PR goal was to remind the world that it knows how to fight viruses pic.twitter.com/aLErzT1WRg

โ€” Oleg Shakirov (@shakirov2036) April 27, 2025


Putinโ€™s Spies for Hire: What the U.K.โ€™s Biggest Espionage Trial Revealed about Kremlin Tactics in Wartime Europe - War on the Rocks https://t.co/FaVtPO6wy0

โ€” Covert Intel and Operations (@covert_intel) April 27, 2025


modern tar pits

"When we detect unauthorized crawling, rather than blocking the request, we will link to a series of AI-generated pages that are convincing enough to entice a crawler to traverse them. . . . No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense. Any visitorโ€ฆ pic.twitter.com/mIQtqU3s5P

โ€” Sauers (@Sauers_) April 26, 2025

Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that donโ€™t respect โ€œno crawlโ€ directives.


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