December 8, 2023
December 8, 2023
Huge if true. If…
‼️BREAKTHROUGH? First quantum computer with a programmable processor based on encoded 48 logical qubits operating with up to 280 physical qubits, with error correction. Are we nearing the era of useful quantum computation? If this is real, maybe soon? https://t.co/DuODD6ZeUi pic.twitter.com/vNjvh17SG0
— Lukasz Olejnik, Ph.D, LL.M (@lukOlejnik) December 7, 2023
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Quality reporting this. Expose Russian ops AND point out their failure. Without the latter, we contribute to their success.
— Rory Cormac (@RoryCormac) December 7, 2023
Nice one @gordoncorera
“Russia hacking: 'FSB in years-long cyber attacks on UK', says government” https://t.co/CBsnc7OyPb
Microsoft Threat Intelligence is sharing additional intelligence on Star Blizzard (overlaps Calisto / ColdRiver), who is active in espionage and IO. UK NCSC has just attributed them to FSB Center 18. The blog details ongoing campaigns and evasionhttps://t.co/bZAiEFPmRz https://t.co/ZJI3qK81Fh
— Justin (@sixdub) December 7, 2023
Microsoft continues to track and disrupt activity attributed to a Russian state-sponsored actor we track as Star Blizzard (SEABORGIUM), who has improved their evasion capabilities since 2022 while remaining focused on email credential theft. Get TTPs: https://t.co/MbvBsF0tlQ
— Microsoft Threat Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) December 7, 2023
More on the train hack from December 6th
They HACKED A TRAIN. For real. Train operators asked for this to see why their trains didn't run after servicing. Turns out that vendor/producer implemented a geofence lock for trains serviced somewhere else. Amazing story, one of the best hacks in 2023. https://t.co/1ZFpIVfLZr pic.twitter.com/wl81uPiP43
— Lukasz Olejnik, Ph.D, LL.M (@lukOlejnik) December 6, 2023
Another great writeup by @mmolgtm on Chrome RCE through type confusion (CVE-2023-4069)https://t.co/YH8IQzdQs1#chrome #infosec pic.twitter.com/7qwQT1CuaY
— 0xor0ne (@0xor0ne) December 6, 2023
As a Director at Amazon, I repeatedly saw that big tech career incentives basically guarantee cycles of too much growth, and then layoffs. I just had someone email me, and say that they're worried about their career as a development manager.
— Dave Anderson (@scarletinked) December 6, 2023
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@scarletinked: As a Director at Amazon, I repeatedly saw that big tech career incentives basically guarantee cycles of too much growth, and then layoffs. I just had someone email me, and say that they're worried abo...…
New blog out by @jshermcyber on Positive Hack Days. Russias largest cyber security conference.https://t.co/9toBOxEQPm
— Ian Roos (@ian_roos) December 5, 2023
Standard Harvard admissions interview pic.twitter.com/i6zb7UpVHG
— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) December 6, 2023
You see the child safety advocates presenting slanted statistics like this, and they never answer the base rate question: how do their statistics compared to what "everybody does?"
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) December 7, 2023
Everybody uses encrypted. Messengers. Therefore, bad people use encrypted messengers. pic.twitter.com/NhiGUwGuJz
Here goes fresh Russian propaganda, casually & proudly displaying the USSR flag.
— x0rz (@x0rz) December 7, 2023
This is the Tupolev Tu-144. A soviet version of the Franco-British supersonic #Concorde. In the 60's, the GRU actually spied on the French manufacturer Sud Aviation to obtain detailed plans of the… pic.twitter.com/4uKWv6jnlf
Fun fact: that viral-ish Gemini demo video is basically entirely fake pic.twitter.com/Kaia0UG30y
— Andrew Jones (@ajones55555) December 7, 2023
Just released a full secure-boot exploit chain for the Chromecast with Google TV 1080P with Jan Altensen and Ray Volpe!
— Nolen Johnson (@nolenjohnson) December 6, 2023
Go check it out on DirectDefense's blog! https://t.co/hXXjDPEWVZ
Or on my personal security blog: https://t.co/ZC3G5MmtiE#security #vulnerability #vrp #cve
One day my kid will find out that McDonald’s does not sell a 5 piece McNugget.
— Jessie (@mommajessiec) December 6, 2023
Red Cross: A blood donation is the best gift you can give to someone.
— Rodney Lacroix (@RodLacroix) December 6, 2023
[Christmas morning]
Kids: [all screaming while opening presents]
Absolutely not the bottleneck for phishing emails. There is probably room for AI to improve cyber criminal operations, but writing emails is not gonna be that 10x improvement
EXCLUSIVE: ChatGPT builder helps create cyber crime tool. BBC News built a bespoke GPT trained to craft convincing emails, texts and social posts for well known hacks and scams that the public ChatGPT is moderated to block. It took minutes and zero coding. https://t.co/vTVWdHGVDO
— Joe Tidy (@joetidy) December 7, 2023
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/
Great to see that some of the bugs that we reported to ICS vendors had been fixed.
— starlabs (@starlabs_sg) December 8, 2023
Thanks to @Peterpan980927 & @CurseRed for CVE-2023-6358https://t.co/UXcdapQgrR
And @testanull for CVE-2023-39474https://t.co/WHEQ4gjQjL
More to come soon.
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you can't fool me, these are all slang words from Futurama or possibly Cyberpunk 2077 https://t.co/YnQHSP2jyY
— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) December 8, 2023
feel like im having a stroke pic.twitter.com/UNG8pRqkgU
— snowboiiii (@snowboiiii) December 8, 2023
Japan-headquartered cybersecurity software provider Trend Micro is relocating its China R&D operations to Canada and has already laid off around 70 employees in its Nanjing R&D center.https://t.co/MFhOflTi5fhttps://t.co/spvXa5XDbq pic.twitter.com/PHx1msuwIS
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) December 8, 2023
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