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October 18, 2023

October 18, 2023

October 18, 2023

X will begin charging new users $1 a year | Fortune

X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now, the team is moving the idea into production.


Former soldier charged with trying to give classified info to China

A former U.S. Army soldier has been charged with attempting to provide classified information to China's security services.


Our vulnerability analysts have developed a custom fuzzer using the popular snapshot fuzzer “WTF” which targets Direct Composition in #Windows. Learn more about this tool and how it could help other researchers here https://t.co/VgDnjuihrL pic.twitter.com/3C3izeUpk2

— Cisco Talos Intelligence Group (@TalosSecurity) October 17, 2023

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— Jason Lang (@curi0usJack) October 17, 2023

In this post @mmolgtm shows how to get Remote Code Execution (RCE) in Chrome, by exploiting the type confusion vulnerability CVE-2023-4069 in the Maglev compiler.https://t.co/8CPoUbz70b

— GitHub Security Lab (@GHSecurityLab) October 17, 2023

One takeaway from @AmnestyTech's latest report on the Predator spyware is that the Vietnamese operator isn't too worried about getting caught. Sending links on X and Facebook is riskier than the direct targeting we've seen elsewhere with other operators. https://t.co/uxJQ4hAq04

— Runa Sandvik (@runasand) October 18, 2023

https://x.com/felixsimon/status/1714564000216645939

The EU chat control legislation has been temporarily postponed. That’s good news. The bad news is there’s another vote in December. https://t.co/Hde8jMe0Ym

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) October 18, 2023

It’s amazing to me that a proposal to scan *literally ever private communication in Europe* is barely making newspapers, and we’re reading about legislative progress on blogs.

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) October 18, 2023

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) account on X, formerly known as Twitter, displays a link to a Telegram channel for informants.

But Kevin McSheehan was able to redirect potential CIA contacts to his own Telegram channel. https://t.co/u8GjZw415I

— switched (@switch_d) October 18, 2023

✰ i hijacked the cia's telegram ✰

time sensitivity - no other option

i'm not in the business of making the @cia look bad - but i fell backwards into a situation where i had no option but to secure their spy onboarding funnel.

article: https://t.co/l3YuyJhiQl

they're the… pic.twitter.com/l20zTA6fdH

— pad (@123456) October 18, 2023


🧵Now that day has broken, and we're getting better evidence, I'm willing to share some PRELIMINARY thoughts on the al-Ahli hospital explosion. The photos of the scene are, to me, not consistent with an airstrike and are not consistent with claims that 500+ people were killed. pic.twitter.com/dzA3Bx71hr

— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) October 18, 2023

Thread by @Nrg8000 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

@Nrg8000: 🧵Now that day has broken, and we're getting better evidence, I'm willing to share some PRELIMINARY thoughts on the al-Ahli hospital explosion. The photos of the scene are, to me, not consistent with an airs...…


Mandia: China replaces Russia as top cyber threat | CyberScoop

Beijing's growing sophistication in cyberspace is making China an increasingly potent adversary, according to Kevin Mandia.


Cisco CVE-2023-20198 exploitation activity: We see over 32.8K Cisco IOS XE IPs compromised with implants based on the check published by Cisco in https://t.co/DWK2SgQGYP

IP data on implants shared out daily in: https://t.co/D1KZAGvfTr tagged 'device-implant'. pic.twitter.com/iJUNHAOTje

— Shadowserver (@Shadowserver) October 18, 2023

MARTIN SCORSESE: After 80 years on this planet examining the negative parts of human nature I've realized the only way to pull ourselves out of the abyss is by practicing love and compassion, but I'm afraid it's too late for me

INTERVIEWER: What did you think of Ant-Man 3?

— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 18, 2023

Visiting professor used PhD students to gather intelligence for China, Asio boss alleges | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian

Mike Burgess says Beijing is engaged in ‘the most sustained, scaled and sophisticated theft of intellectual property and expertise in human history’


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