February 11, 2023

                            February 11, 2023

                February 11, 2023

Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik
"University of Zurich is currently the target of a serious cyberattack. The perpetrators appear to be acting in a very professional manner". It isn't clear what is the exact meaning/context of the word "professional" as used here by University of Zurich :) uzh.chCyberattack on the University of Zurich3:03 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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OSINT & Analysis by Oliver Alexander
Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh's Pipe Dream
I would like to preface this post by stating that I will not be making any conclusions on who is responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in this piece. While I have my suspects, all publicly available information regarding the explosions is circumstantial and there is none that conclusively points to a specific culprit. The purpose of this p…
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2 months ago · 14 likes · 24 comments · Oliver Alexander
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Microsoft BlueHat Conference: Feb 8-9, 2023 @MSFTBlueHat
James Forshaw @tiraniddo, Security Researcher in Google Project Zero, has taken the #STRIKE Presents #BlueHat stage to talk about why he writes his own security tooling and why you should too. 👏🚀 
6:10 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance @FalconryFinance
We killed a Martian. 
Shannon Vavra @shanvav
“We don't know what [the] entity is," Kirby said of the recently downed "object." "There's no indication that it's from a nation."11:14 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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John Hultquist🌻 @JohnHultquist
Imagine bringing your message of intergalactic love across a hundred light years of space only to cross into US airspace on the absolute worst possible week.12:42 AM ∙ Feb 11, 2023
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehlChatGPT writes 15% longer and more critical performance feedback for women employees. It aso relies on stereotypes to choose pronouns. Examples: kindergarten teacher, nurse and reception = "she". Mechanic and construction workers = "he". @KieranSnyder  fastcompany.com/90844066/chatg…
2:54 AM ∙ Feb 11, 2023
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lander @landaire
New blog post: One Weird Trick to Improve Bug Finding With ASAN landaire.netOne Weird Trick to Improve Bug Finding With ASANA light exploration into how abstractions harm ASAN’s effectiveness9:29 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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Intl Jrnl of Intelligence & CounterIntelligence @Intel_IJICRead the response of Paul Redmond, the retired CIA officer accused of spying for Russia in Robert Baer’s new book The Fourth Man, for FREE for a limited time: 

Full article: The Ghost of Angleton tandfonline.comThe Ghost of AngletonPublished in International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence (Ahead of Print, 2023)9:40 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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B. @anerdonfire2
I hate to brag but I've been kicked out of several cults for being too weird.10:05 AM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwiki
can't stop reading about defunct consumer brands 
4:23 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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Talia Lavin @swordsjew
today this would be marketed as a "biohack" & make gazillions in silicon valley 
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwiki
can't stop reading about defunct consumer brands https://t.co/o9oostbjsT12:35 AM ∙ Feb 11, 2023
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April King 🌀 @CubicleApril
it is extremely frustrating how inaccurately hacking is depicted in movies, never once showing hackers wearing their fursuits3:22 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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Spyware inception
Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer
Pegasus spyware was used to monitor a Salvadoran judge who was overseeing a case about the Salvadoran government’s acquisition of Pegasus spyware. via @elfaroenglish elfaro.netApple Warned Salvadoran Supreme Court Judge of Possible Pegasus Infection11:23 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis
I looked into the TikTok team that spied on journalists. What I found is a group of former Western law enforcement officials who were given the power to interrogate employees and look through internal communications with little oversight semafor.comTikTok team accused of spying had a history of employee complaints | SemaforParent company ByteDance is restructuring the internal audit team after members interrogated TikTok workers with little oversight.4:53 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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Jayce Nichols 🇺🇦 @JayceNichols_
intel analysis 
5:46 PM ∙ Feb 10, 2023
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Last month I wrote about OpZero. There was a follow up by CyberNews who asked the owner Sergey. 
CyberNews @CyberNews#OpZero, a #Russian company, is a fairly new player in the market of #zeroday exploits,but it raised some eyebrows with unusually high prices for certain vulnerabilities. Cybernews contacted Sergey Zenelyuk, the founder of the firm.
#cybersecurity #infosec
cybernews.com/editorial/opze…
12:00 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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https://cybernews.com/editorial/opzero-exploit-hunter-kremlin/

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Ted Chiang on ChatGPT

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

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raptor@infosec.exchange @0xdea
#mast1c0re: Introduction – #Exploiting the #PS4 and #PS5 through a game save

mccaulay.co.uk/mast1c0re-intr…

#mast1c0re: Part 1 – Modifying #PS2 game save files

mccaulay.co.uk/mast1c0re-part…

#mast1c0re: Part 2 – Arbitrary #PS2 code execution

mccaulay.co.ukmast1c0re: Part 2 - Arbitrary PS2 code executionIn this post we develop a stack-buffer overflow exploit for the PS2 Okage: Shadow King game.7:30 AM ∙ Feb 11, 2023
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Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01
Today's "no sh*t, mate" headline: 

reuters.comChina cranking up political espionage, German official tells newspaperThe head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency fears that China is expanding its spy activities against Berlin, he said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that Beijing was focusing increasingly on political espionage.10:50 AM ∙ Feb 11, 2023
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