August 31, 2022
Here it is, a ransomware group has claimed credit for Montenegro. Drum roll please… Cuba Ransomware Group! Notable for not being the Russian government.
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Two senior officials in the Ministry of Economic Affairs are suspected of espionage, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is involved.
Espionage! Exciting! German counter espionage is investigating two officials who work for the ministry in charge of gas, oil, and Nord Stream 2. They’re suspected of spying for Russia.
https://www.zeit.de/2022/36/russland-spionage-bmwi-robert-habeck-verfassungsschutz/komplettansicht-
A great article on AI image creation.
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/29/stable-diffusion/-
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https://t.co/rgqHWDBkyo-
Operation Fortitude goes Ukraine!
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Unfortunately it has been deleted.
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From the battlefields of Ukraine to the top of Everest, there is nowhere the DJI Mavic can’t go (and transmit data back to china)
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People have argued that SMS based authentication is terrible. Turns out it’s actively harmful.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/how-1-time-passcodes-became-a-corporate-liability/A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.
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https://schmud.de/posts/2022-08-23-the-consumer-computer.htmlWhen the personal computer went from being a “bicycle for the mind” to a surveilled shopping mall.
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A thread 🧵 (1/8)-
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Great presentation on SAMl and XML shenanigans.
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