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October 28, 2022

October 28, 2022

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Michael McDoormat @GlassHalfArsed
This is objectively the funniest possible way that Gerry Adams could have confessed to being in the leadership of the IRA
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Belfast Telegraph @BelTel
Bono’s claims the IRA targeted the U2 frontman is “news to me”, says Gerry Adams https://t.co/IsLpPYU2pu
6:01 PM ∙ Oct 25, 2022
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CyberKnow @Cyberknow20
Cyber Army of Russia has targeted the senate of #Poland after they passed a resolution recognising #Russia as a terrorist state. According to some reporting, the ddos attack haa impacted the activities of the senate. #cybersecurity #infosec #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar
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4:21 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg
🧵THREAD: @thedailybeast has just added further layers of confusion to the already murky tale of how ABC journalist James Gordon Meek was raided by the FBI back in late April, then vanished from public view. In the process, my suspicion that Meek was an intel asset is reinforced.
9:56 AM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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kif @kifleswing
Interesting that Apple's specialized iPhones for security research are "not available in any U.S. embargoed countries or region ... or on any other restricted party lists."
security.apple.comSecurity Research Device - Apple Security ResearchGet an iPhone dedicated to security research through the Apple Security Research Device program. Learn how to apply.
7:04 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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* This program is available in: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (UK), United States.

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David Parkinson Frost @ParkinsonFrost
Don't worry guys! I'll be okay. Just a quick trip to the hospital 🥹🏥🩹 (I'm not one to toot my own horn, but I did pretty dang good for filling in at the last second 😏🏈)
4:52 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera
Ian Levy, technical director of @NCSC, announces his departure from government - and offers ten things he has learnt from twenty years at @GCHQ - ranging from quantum state superposition jokes to why cybersecurity never seems to learn from the past
ncsc.gov.ukSo long and thanks for all the bitsIan Levy, the NCSC’s departing Technical Director, discusses life, the universe, and everything.
2:41 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Gordon Corera @gordoncorera
Some interesting points from Levy about how a tech-ecosystem optimised on cost will favour China because of market size. However, I'm slightly sad that 'not playing with dolls' failed to make his top ten lessons given this video from the opening of @NCSC
bbc.co.ukHacked doll ‘could open front door’As the National Cyber Security Centre opens, we discover how your smart devices could be a threat.
4:18 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Sam Biddle @samfbiddle
NEW: Internal documents from an Iranian cell carrier reveal a system that allows the government to remotely track people through their phones, disrupt their cell connections and much more
theintercept.comIran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile PhonesThe documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate people’s phones.
4:35 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Hans-Martin Münch @h0ng10
Awesome talk about SAML/XML-Signatures by @_fel1x!!!!
youtube.comHEXACON2022 - Hacking the Cloud with SAML by Felix Wilhelmhttps://www.hexacon.fr/conference/speakers/#hacking_the_cloud
10:50 AM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Ambassador Nicholas Burns @USAmbChina
My interview with @ForeignAffairs on our complicated and consequential relationship with China.
foreignaffairs.comAlone in Beijing: A View From the EmbassyA Conversation With Nicholas Burns
8:06 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Nathan Ruser @Nrg8000
Early on Oct 25th, 80 Burmese Junta forces conducted an airdropped raid on a resistance admin base near Hpalanpin Dam. Leaks gave the resistance advanced warning and there were no casualties. Now, 2 days later, they still cannot withdraw through resistance-controlled territory.
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8:01 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Russian seabed warfare capabilities

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Renee DiResta @noUpside
@Malwarebytes A few years back some intrepid artists took a stab at solving the Hoodie Hacker problem with compelling visuals. There was a contest: cybervisuals.org (full disclosure i was a judge) My favorite is here, but there are many to use.
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11:26 PM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Vili Lehdonvirta @ViliLe
Now that Musk is running Twitter, people are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately federated (decentralized) networks like Mastodon seem unlikely to be the answer. This thread illustrates some of the basic problems: cost, collective action problems, fragmentation. Also…
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walking mirage @atomicthumbs
instead of a billionaire's fiefdom run by thousands of people, you get a hobby sysadmin's fiefdom run by a hobby sysadmin and connected to 1 billion other fiefdoms sorry your friend's account is gone because someone forgot to pay for the linode it lived on
9:22 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Inside TheTruthSpy, the stalkerware network spying on thousands

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/26/inside-thetruthspy-stalkerware/

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Playlist for Hexacon.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiEHUFG7koLsvukxg6wI1yaXRl_pmh3PZ

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SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity
The OpenSSL 3.x flaw will be significant, I have been told by someone in a position to know. Take your preparation seriously and prepare to act quickly – either patch or isolate. It is sensitive enough they would not discuss specifics, out of respect for the embargo.
2:27 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Jan Lemnitzer @JanLemnitzer
My article ‘Back to the Roots: The Laws of Neutrality and the Future of Due Diligence in Cyberspace’ has just been published in EJIL! Find the key points in a thread: 1/11 doi.org/10.1093/ejil/c… @ciaranmartinoxf @DapoAkandeLaw @thegrugq @daveaitel @DuncanHollis @francoisdelerue
doi.orgBack to the Roots: The Laws of Neutrality and the Future of Due Diligence in CyberspaceAbstract. The question of whether the due diligence rule applies in cyberspace has become a key issue in the cyber norms debate. Yet there is no consensus wheth
11:14 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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George Allison @geoallison
The Chinese government has been accused of opening up more than 50 secret police stations across the globe - including one in Glasgow operating at the address of a popular Chinese restaurant. I'm here for a look...
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10:20 AM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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lesbian mothman @verysmallriver
i was on tumblr when yahoo had to sell it for $3 million after buying it for $1.1 billion. we were all a little bit responsible for losing yahoo a billion dollars. and with that type of collective effort, i believe we here on twitter can lose elon musk even more
12:04 PM ∙ Apr 14, 2022
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Adrian Edmondson @AdrianEdmondson
This obsession with ‘working hard’ and ‘hard working families’ is depressingly Victorian. We live in an age of machines that can do all that stuff for us. People should be having more diverse and more fulfilled lives, not grinding away until they die.
9:15 AM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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