January 9, 2023

                            January 9, 2023

                January 9, 2023

                        Nice work, if you can get it.
New York Daily News @NYDailyNews
A trio of thieves steal $300,000 from an armored truck in a bold Brooklyn heist, grabbing a sack of cash while they distract a Brink’s guard by asking for directions, cops say
trib.alThieves steal bag of $300,000 cash by distracting armored truck guard outside Brooklyn Chase bankThe crooks struck when an armored truck pulled up to a Chase bank on Eighth Ave. and 55th St. in Sunset Park about 1 p.m. Friday, cops said.2:42 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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PBS @PBS
From @frontlinepbs & @FbdnStories, "Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus" examines how the hacking tool was used to spy on journalists, activists, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.

Part 2 premieres Tues. at 10/9c — stream part 1 on the PBS app now. 
5:00 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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Pegasus. Pegasus. Pegasus!
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Santos (Steve) S. @0xTribouletIn this writeup, we leverage @rustlang's  inherent obfuscation against existing AV technologies to quickly bypass all detection on VirusTotal using unsafe code blocks. 

We can even achieve 0-total detections with a standard MSFVenom payload!

Check it out
steve-s.gitbook.io/0xtriboulet/ze… 
7:20 AM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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A very cool article where medieval paintings of peasant homes are examined to reveal what the inside of a peasant hovel of the Middle Ages looked like. It’s actually good. 

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/medieval-homes/

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for those of who whom enjoyed kevin steele's previous article on the enabling-constraints of 1990s graphic design, his article on working on the Mackerel Stack is a paean to Macintosh Hypercard

http://www.kevinsteele.com/smackerel/black_white_00.html

https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/109654706939140763

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Mysterious Antennas Are Appearing in Utah's Hills and Officials Are Stumped
City officials have found around a dozen of the antennas and no one is sure what they're for. A city official said that there were no identifying marks on the antenna and that they’d been bolted into the stone and required special tools to remove. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epzwya/mysterious-antennas-are-appearing-in-utahs-hills-and-officials-are-stumped

https://kolektiva.social/@chadloder/109651575114783605

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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman22
Richard Aldrich’s article on GCHQ’s efforts during the Cold War to create a secure communications network is fantastic. Thanks to @FWeierud for the recommendation!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 
11:57 AM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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Dreadnought Holiday @TheDreadShips
Your semi-regular reminder that Henri IV here was "built to test the ideas of Louis-Émile Bertin", and that the ideas of Louis-Émile Bertin were not necessarily good ones. 
7:43 PM ∙ May 28, 2021
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Chloe Condon @ChloeCondon
Love to catch up with old friends!! ❤️ It's so beautiful how technology connects us all!!! 💌🙏 
3:56 AM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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Second World War tweets from 1945 @RealTimeWWII
US Office of Strategic Services begins Operation Cornflakes: airdropping bags of fake letters near bombed Axis mail trains, getting the German postal service to collect & deliver Allied propaganda. 
7:58 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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raptor @0xdea
Another awesome #vulnerability #research and #exploitation writeup!

LuaJIT Sandbox Escape: The Saga Ends

0xbigshaq.github.ioLuaJIT Sandbox Escape: The Saga EndsHappy holidays 🕎/🎅 and (almost) happy new year! This week I presented my LuaJIT journey at the DEFCON-Groups meetup(@dc9723): Yesterday I shared my LuaJIT journey at @dc9723 group. Thanks for everyone who attended :DCurrently working on the last blogpost of the series, which documents the exploi…7:17 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2023
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Jonathan Yu @jawnsy@mastodon.social @jawnsy
A lot of great topics in this discussion with @halvarflake, which covers his career, the security industry, Prodfiler, and why their business model of payment as a proportion of costs saved didn't work: kubernetespodcast.comKubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 163 - Prodfiler, with Thomas DullienProdfiler is a new tool that provides fleet-wide full-system continuous profiling. It is in some ways the second act of its co-creator Thomas Dullien, who is an internationally-renowned reverse engineer and vulnerability researcher under the name Halvar Flake. Thomas joins us to discuss his career,…9:23 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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Populism Updates @PopulismUpdates
BOLSONARO SUPPORTERS: We have taken the initiative sir. All of us have given our lives to this cause. We are fighting for God and we are not afraid to die

BOLSONARO: Oh my god. So THIS is a Slurpee10:32 PM ∙ Jan 8, 2023
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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkootTwo Norwegian-Dutch spectrum monitoring military nanosatellites were launched by SpaceX (Jan 3) nlr.org/news/norwegian…

Intended for e.g. detecting radar systems on land & sea. The sats are owned & operated by NL & NO (two like-minded NATO countries), which is said to be unique. 
8:31 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2023
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Paul McNamara @M_PaulMcNamara
Led me to my Amazon Review Of The Day https://t.co/O1kzAJUlbb 
ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki
1/ Russia is reported to be considering forcing soldiers who are refusing to fight to serve in penal-style battalions under the command of the Wagner Group, which is desperate for new blood to replace its calamitous losses in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. ⬇️ https://t.co/jD5Mua30q47:29 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2023
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kennyog @kennyogWe (@winterdeaf @kientuong114 and I) took a deep dive on Threema, a Swiss-made secure messaging app. We found 6 new cryptographic vulnerabilities. Full paper at breakingthe3ma.app; mini-thread follows. #threema
breakingthe3ma.appThree Lessons from Threema: Analysis of a Secure Messenger6:28 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2023
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https://breakingthe3ma.app/

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The DGSE and its secret hoard in the nets of justice
Paywalled and in French. But seems like a wild story.

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/h2023/01/04/la-dgse-et-son-magot-secret-dans-les-filets-de-la-justice_6156647_3224.html

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