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July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023

July 14, 2023

Storm 0978 is the classic example of a Russian ransomware gang that also engages in espionage for the Russian services. Right now they are exploiting a Microsoft zero day to attack European governments supporting Ukraine.
@ciaranmartinoxf@thegrugqhttps://t.co/QcEvVla8DG

— Jan Lemnitzer (@JanLemnitzer) July 12, 2023

Make sure after you waltz in and steal their shred bin on a red team engagement, you exit with a smile like this 😂 pic.twitter.com/g4EoGuDddn

— JS0N Haddix (@Jhaddix) July 13, 2023

Ever wondered what makes a secure element secure?

A part of it is this pattern: pic.twitter.com/bD8QNX5iTr

— stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) July 13, 2023

Demo: Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS

Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.


mhoye: "Holy shit this paper, and the insight behind it…" - Mastodon

Holy shit this paper, and the insight behind it. You know how every receiver is also a transmitter, well: every text predictor is also text compressor, and vice-versa. You can outperform massive neural networks running millions of parameters, with a few lines of python and a novel application of gzip. https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/


Matthew Green: "This part of Mission Impossible was so great I ha…" - IOC.exchange

Attached: 1 image This part of Mission Impossible was so great I had to take a photo in the movie theater.


JosephMenn: "Very good story by our own @taylorlorenz@mastodon…" - Infosec Exchange

Very good story by our own @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social about media coverage of "deadly" but nonexistent TikTok challenges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/tiktok-boat-challenge-fake-misinformation/


Cisco Talos: "In our latest Vulnerability Deep Dive, we look at…" - Mastodon 🐘

Attached: 1 image In our latest Vulnerability Deep Dive, we look at how vulnerabilities in a codebase that #Apple and #VMware use could be exploited. Approaching a target’s attack surface layer by layer, we show vulnerabilities that stem from single packet parsing, temporal vulnerabilities that require multiple interacting sessions and complex vulnerabilities that can only be reached by performing concrete and well-formed RPC calls. https://blog.talosintelligence.com/weaknesses-mac-os-vmware-...


Kurtaj has been assessed by psychiatrists as not fit to stand trial, so the jury will determine whether he committed the acts alleged rather than deliver a guilty or not guilty verdict.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/teen-hacked-uber-revolut-grand-theft-auto-maker-london-court-hears-2023-07-11/

The new normal. Platforms like TikTok Snapchat, Twitter can be shut down in Europe, with immediate effect, during riots, under EU law's Digital Services Act - Commissioner Breton. And various NGOs have praised this law so much… https://t.co/f9HXxHUf2D

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) July 13, 2023

https://twitter.com/albefittarelli/status/1679493344429318148

UK Parliament intelligence committee opinion points to Chinese cyber operations and cyberattacks on a huge scale. The most interesting details from this report are unfortunately "cut out" (the "***" part). https://t.co/RCgQQp5OoI pic.twitter.com/R6inIEiYrm

— Lukasz Olejnik (@lukOlejnik) July 14, 2023

Cisco Talos has discovered a threat actor conducting several campaigns against government entities, military organizations and civilian users in Ukraine and Poland. https://t.co/rBkMFJykJy @TalosSecurity

— 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) (@780thC) July 14, 2023

Perhaps you've wondered what Doritos would look like in a CT scan. We did, so here's a clump of Cool Ranch Doritos, scanned through the bag. But there's more...🧵 pic.twitter.com/OvD95qWb1t

— Jon Bruner (@JonBruner) July 13, 2023

My dream is for Elon Musk to buy Manchester United

— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) July 14, 2023

It is often expected that using many social media platforms has a negative impact on people’s well-being.

It turns out that, after adjusting for self-selection bias, there is no significant relationship between number of social media platforms used and well-being.
👇 https://t.co/DHf4TbkFka

— Emilio Zagheni (@ezagheni) July 14, 2023

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