July 1, 2022
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Pretty big story here from Chris Bing. Deep dive on Indian hackers who do hands on keyboard work for filthy lucre. Lawyers involved in legal disputes in the US have been hiring Indian hackers to phish opposition lawyers and clients and steal documents.
Reuters got their hands on almost a decade of email spools from the hacker’s attack accounts. Analysis reviews some completely wild numbers, like 80k emails sent to 13k targets, or targeting 1000 lawyers in 108 law firms. Spray and pray.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-hackers-litigation/-
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Apparently “Fountain” by Duchamp was created by a female artist. He says in a letter that she sent it to him. This is quite remarkable.
How The Artwork That Started Conceptual Art Was Actually Stolen - Cultura Colectiva
Women artists are rarely mentioned by history because the male dominated-industry focuses more on their beauty than on their talent. Misinterpreted, hidden
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Kaspersky discovers poorly detected backdoor, targeting governments and NGOs around the globe | Kaspersky
Kaspersky experts have brought to light a poorly detected SessionManager backdoor that was set up as a malicious module within the Internet Information Services (IIS), a popular web server edited by Microsoft. Once propagated, SessionManager enables a wide range of malicious activities, starting from collecting emails to complete control over the victim’s infrastructure. First leveraged in late March 2021, the newly discovered backdoor has hit governmental institutions and NGOs in Africa, South Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Most of the targeted organizations are still compromised to date.
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Friend: “Designated hacker? Feels a bit like the person who chooses to be a bard in Dungeons & Dragons.”
https://carryingthegun.com/2022/06/29/should-platoons-have-a-designated-hacker-assigned/From this summary it seems like I have to listen to the podcast.
Digital Irregular Warfare: Cyber at the Tactical Level - Modern War Institute
In Episode 53 of the Irregular Warfare Podcast, we consider how cyber tools and weapons are used at the tactical level within irregular warfare. Our guests begin by highlighting the […]
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Well, that is portentous. Robotaxis in San Fransciso malfunctioned and converged on and blocked a street.
Cruise robotaxis stop operating, block traffic on San Francisco street
More than a half dozen Cruise robotaxis stopped operating and sat in a street in San Francisco late Tuesday night, blocking traffic for a couple of hours
Driverless Robotaxi Fleet Paralyzed for Hours in San Francisco – The Last Driver License Holder…
Apparently, the first system breakdown of a driverless robot taxi fleet occurred. In San Francisco, at least a dozen autonomous Chevrolet Bolts from GM Cruise Automation were spotted blocking the i…
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Another Rude Awakening - Making Sense of Russia's War Against Ukraine
Another Rude Awakening - Making Sense of Russia's War Against Ukraine
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I am very uncertain about the value of this work. The part where they use it to show police bias in solving crimes, where crimes in poor neighbourhoods result in fewer arrests than in wealthy neighbourhoods — sure, great to have data for that (we already had it), but without the political will to do anything what good is it?
I’m curious about a number of things, for example predicting murders in Chicago a week in advance during 2017 is not a particularly hard feat. There are patterns of violence which create clusters of murders in time and space. These murders aren’t events that could be stopped by increased police presence for that week, because the social dynamics of what is causing the violence isn’t being addressed.
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