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October 19, 2023

October 19, 2023

October 19, 2023

saw this NYC street vendor on TikTok

You gotta do what you gotta do to make money 🫰🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/SKTswvTeOV

— umichvoter 🏳️‍🌈 (@umichvoter) October 18, 2023





Israel's Strategic Crisis - by Lawrence Freedman

President Biden heads to the Middle East After the crisis caused by being caught by surprise on 7 October, Israel now faces a second crisis as its government struggles to find a strategy to meet its stated objective of pushing Hamas out of Gaza and rendering it incapable of further atrocities in the future. Even before the uproar surrounding the tragedy at the Al Ahli hospital, the dominant issue was becoming the dire situation in Gaza rather the security of Israel. To understand how we have rea...



🕵️‍♂️ ALERT: Google TAG security experts uncover Russian and Chinese state-backed threat actors exploiting WinRAR #vulnerability (CVE-2023-38831) to infiltrate systems.

Get details here: https://t.co/bTGkOdbXfN#hacking #CyberAttack #CyberSecurity

— The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) October 19, 2023

“The intelligence chiefs said China was using hacking, pressure on Chinese students, informants in Western companies and joint ventures with Western firms to try to steal critical technology.” https://t.co/4bpIKvDjTw

— John Sipher (@john_sipher) October 19, 2023

The @ICRC releases recommendations tor cyberwarfare conduct “Belligerents should not encourage civilians to take a direct part in hostilities through digital operations…”. Can they prohibit them? https://t.co/IBhfWJ1HaO

— Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) (@lukOlejnik) October 19, 2023

Cyber tools to be regulated “To prevent harm to civilians, states need to regulate the growing market of tech companies that develop and sell capabilities and services developed with the objective of harming civilians”.

— Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) (@lukOlejnik) October 19, 2023

Inconvenient? To cloud providers: “companies that operate in situations of armed conflict should understand and monitor if the services they provide may amount to a direct participation in hostilities by their EMPLOYEES and if the company might qualify as a military objective;” pic.twitter.com/XUCKlW2eQK

— Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) (@lukOlejnik) October 19, 2023

With the proliferation of photos/footage, satellite imagery and map data, forensic video/image analysis and geolocation (~OSINT) has clearly been a key news gathering technique for several years now. A key news gathering technique *completely absent from most newsrooms*.

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) October 18, 2023

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