February 23, 2023

                        February 23, 2023

            February 23, 2023

Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono
HUGE: A.I. can now emulate a human by shutting down when you ask about its emotions 
Davey Alba @daveyalbaI chatted with Bing and found that any mention of "feelings" or "Sydney" ended the chat 😞

https://t.co/1ubK3e79T39:06 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Byron Wan @Byron_WanOn Feb 2, a 🇨🇳 fishing vessel sailing close to 🇹🇼 Matsu Islands severed one of the two undersea cables connecting the islands with Taiwan proper. 6 days later, a 🇨🇳 freighter cut the second cable. 

Either really unfortunate or probably not a coincidence. foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/21/mat…
foreignpolicy.comChina Is Practicing How to Sever Taiwan’s InternetThe cutoff of the Matsu Islands may be a dry run for further aggression.5:05 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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The Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa
Inside the Fox News Sausage Factory 
I have written previously about how the demise of traditional media gatekeepers and social trust have resulted in “cool trust” — the need to police social norms through formal rules and legal enforcement since we can no longer count on people to be honest and civic-minded. The latest example of this phenomenon is Dominion Voting System’s defamation laws…
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2 months ago · 78 likes · 34 comments · Asha Rangappa
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Jake Lucky @JakeSucky
A Twitch streamer stole her own phone on stream and was exposed when she fell and revealed herself as the thief... 
6:51 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Katie🌻Moussouris (she/her) @k8em0
So tell me again that having a bug bounty or Vulnerability Disclosure Program is any indicator of security maturity & I’ll show you a missing people/process/tech security program. 
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittakerBreaking: The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling terabytes of internal U.S. military emails to the internet for two weeks. The server wasn't protected with a password, a security researcher told TechCrunch.

https://t.co/ACgBIUWrtL4:56 AM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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The War Zone @thewarzonewire
Our Best Look Yet At The Chinese Spy Balloon’s Massive Payload
thedrive.comOur Best Look Yet At The Chinese Spy Balloon’s Massive PayloadA just declassified high-resolution image of the Chinese spy balloon taken from a U-2 shows what appear to be propellers and other features.11:24 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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chaotic cats @chaoticcatpics
9:11 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Oryan De Paz @OryanDPSince @kupsul and @OphirHarpaz introduced this RPC toolkit, we added a bunch of resources and capabilities 💪
Now you can analyze RPC security callbacks to find new leads for vulnerable interfaces. A walkthrough & everything you need to know⬇️
akamai.com/blog/security-… 
Akamai Security Research @akamai_researchOur team has done significant work in MS-RPC, and we'd love for other security researchers to as well.

We built a tool to analyze RPC Interfaces to aid in looking for vulns and interesting areas in general. 

Can't wait to see what you find 👀

Write-up:
https://t.co/c6ytlzff6V https://t.co/lh5Ys3lCUf
4:38 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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CIA listens to Between Two Nerds. Shouldn’t you?
Patrick Gray @riskybusinessAFAIK this is the first time someone from CIA has sat down for an interview with the media to talk about cyber

I hope you all enjoy it!

risky.biz/andrewboyd/
risky.biz/subscribe 
12:05 AM ∙ Feb 23, 2023
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Alexander Martin @AlexMartin
Many of Russia’s cyber operations against Ukraine and NATO members during the past year have not yet become public knowledge, according to a joint report published this week by two Dutch intelligence services. therecord.mediaDutch intelligence: Many cyberattacks by Russia are not yet public knowledgeTwo Dutch intelligence agencies cited the volume of Russian cyber operations as one reason many are not yet publicly known.3:18 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar
lmfaooooo 
7:29 AM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Paul Mainwood @PaulMainwood
Beautiful example to reveal the nature of an LLM (a sophisticated statistical model trained on a large corpus of text). 
Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar
lmfaooooo https://t.co/ickkcmP5DL8:47 AM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Allan Friedman @allanfriedman @infosec.exchange @allanfriedman
My accompaniment to my coffee this morning is fascinating video on source code analysis by @daveaitel. It’s harder than one might think, but Dave shares some interesting methods.

youtu.beUsing Graph Algorithms for Open Source Software AnalysisPart of SocialCyber program:- This video focuses on the how and why of detecting modules in software2:48 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2023
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Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN
News: DoD has released a selfie taken in the cockpit of a U-2 spy plane, as an airman flew above the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by the US military earlier this month. 

 CNN first reported the existence of the selfie. 
8:49 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Sean Lyngaas @snlyngaas
Cyberattack on food giant Dole temporarily shuts down North America production, company memo says cnn.comCyberattack on food giant Dole temporarily shuts down North America production, company memo says | CNN BusinessA cyberattack earlier this month forced produce giant Dole to temporarily shut down production plants in North America and halt food shipments to grocery stores, according to a company memo about the incident obtained by CNN.9:23 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Samuel Groß @5aeloWith github.com/googleprojectz… Fuzzilli now finally has a (supported) JavaScript-to-FuzzIL compiler, making it possible to import and mutate existing JavaScript code. It's not feature complete (contributions welcome!) but should support the most important things. Happy Fuzzing!
github.comAdd a basic JavaScript-to-FuzzIL compiler · googleprojectzero/fuzzilli@807625fThe new compiler:
- Is (mostly) written in Swift to ensure that changes to FuzzIL are reflected in the compiler.
- Features an &quot;end-to-end&quot; testsuite that runs as part of `swift test`.
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Bread Pyramid Thing @redpyrameadhead
Please check your children’s candy this Halloween! We just found a holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire. A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father’s name! 
11:54 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Kate O'Flaherty @KateOflaherty
New by me @ITPro 

A UN committee is fleshing out a new international cyber crime treaty, yet experts question whether it’ll make any positive difference.

Thanks to @Jake_MooreUK @EFF and others who commented! 

itpro.co.ukThe UN’s cyber crime treaty could be a privacy disaster | IT PROAlthough a UN committee is fleshing out a new international cyber crime treaty, experts question whether it’ll make any positive difference to businesses2:15 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor
The Chinese embassy in Washington just emailed journalists a five-chapter pamphlet on "US Hegemony and Its Perils" 
10:02 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
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Ben Heap @theblueposts
Epic fail on the paragraph numbering.  info-res.orgFake letter from Michael Gove part of wider Russian disinformation campaign on Ukranian refugeesFake letter from Michael Gove part of wider Russian disinformation campaign on refugees Over the weekend of February 11th, a photograph of a letter, purportedly written by the British Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Michael Gove, began circulating on social media. The letter was addressed to re…6:48 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Chiara Libiseller @CLibiseller🎉Article published! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… I look at what happened when strategic studies scholars adopted NATO’s hybrid warfare concept, and argue that it politicised the academic debate, leading to superficial engagement with the concept and with events in Ukraine.
tandfonline.com‘Hybrid warfare’ as an academic fashionThe ‘hybrid warfare’ concept had been coined years earlier, but became fashionable only when it was adopted and adapted by NATO in 2014, after which academic interest suddenly sky-rocketed. Academi...4:36 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
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Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnikEuropean Commission ordered their employees to remove TikTok from their devices, including private ones. Will @Europarl_EN and @EU_EDPS follow suit? Or pretend that it’s not their problem? Huge data protection concerns. euractiv.com/section/cybers… 
10:24 AM ∙ Feb 23, 2023
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Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnikTikTok ban “… aims to protect the [European] Commission against cybersecurity threats and actions which may be exploited for cyberattacks against the corporate environment of the Commission” ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… https://t.co/Av6RcC8nBR
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik
European Commission ordered their employees to remove TikTok from their devices, including private ones. Will @Europarl_EN and @EU_EDPS follow suit? Or pretend that it’s not their problem? Huge data protection concerns. https://t.co/8UujOkS2sS https://t.co/vQXIznO0M4
11:26 AM ∙ Feb 23, 2023
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred
Phrasing is everything:

“I can see myself living the rest of my life here.”

Is more digestible than

“Oh yeah, I’m going to fucking die here.”1:33 AM ∙ Feb 23, 2023
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