September 7, 2022
A remarkable statement and response from Albania on the cyber attacks impacting the country from mid-July.
According to Prime Minister Edi Rama, Albania has severed diplomatic relations with Iran over the incident, with 24 hours notice.
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The oldest working seagoing paddle steamer Waverley passes by the newest, not working, warship, HMS Prince of Wales, off the Isle of Wight yesterday. Thanks to Chris Glover for this fantastic photo.
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Mongolian soldier in Iraq, second time in history since the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.
We are working on the article about the Mongolian contingent in Iraq, will be published soon.
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Big story on POLITICO this morning on Putin's microchip shopping list.
I was able to see a list of the spare parts Russia is hunting to replenish its arsenal, expended in its war on Ukraine.
The list shows Western firms control this chokepoint tech.
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The attack takes advantage of the fact that the very rich user interface allows displaying formulae in invisible color or in font size zero. This allows to render some code portions invisible when opened using the tool [Mathematica]
A fun paper with an example of how UI design choices can introduce weaknesses that a clever attacker may exploit:
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[Ed: I seem to have forgotten to include the new Perun video on Sunday. A thousand apologies!]
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This post by @lukOlejnik is far and away the best summary I've seen on the major upcoming changes to privacy on the Web. It does such a good job of distilling the key points that it's a worth a read for anyone who relies on the Web.
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Some commands are overwhelmingly run by attackers on compromised hosts (and seldom ever by regular users in regular usage).
Our @subtee has just released a new (free) Canarytoken to make monitoring these commands trivial.
Read more about it - blog.thinkst.com/2022/09/sensitâŠ
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British woman Liz Trussell, who tweets as @Liztruss, has been spending the morning replying to world leaders and it's possibly the best thing in the history of the internet.
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So happy my book "Full Stack GraphQL Applications" is now available in print from @ManningBooks that I spent the holiday weekend re-reading it in the hammock!
Get your FREE full ebook copy (thanks to @neo4j) here: dev.neo4j.com/graphql-book 
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Ten years ago @vx_herm1t had his website shut down by Ukrainian security officials and was charged with distributing computer viruses. Now he's helping his country fend off Russian hackers (via @ddd1ms)
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Some more info about the Fat Leonard escape. Worth noting that he is now Skinny Leonard after gastric bypass and cancer.
https://news.usni.org/2022/09/06/new-details-revealed-in-fat-leonard-escape-detention-as-manhunt-continues-
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PayPal has blocked our business account and is holding $1.3M for more than 2 months without explaining what exactly they are not happy with. Even @PayPal support doesn't know what's going on. â ïžThis endangers the production of Flipper Zero in general. More details in thread 1/5
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On October 18 â three days before Global Encryption Day (@encryption_day) on 21-Oct, the @USPS will release a new stamp honoring women cryptologists of World War II about.usps.com/newsroom/natioâŠ
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Complete article here on NFTs, gaming, and âŠcryptocolonialism?
https://restofworld.org/2022/minecraft-nft-ban-critterz/-
This would make it the 43rd highest budget when compared with countries' military expenditure.
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Almost 3 hours into Musk/Twitter hearing and I actually laughed out loud this exchange:
Musk lawyer (re: whistleblower complaint): one might wonder why we didn't discover this in due diligence .. they hid it, that's why
Judge: we'll never know.. there was no due diligence
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Continuing saga of kiwi farm
Anyhoo, Kiwi Farms new anti-DDoS provider, who also operated as a DDoS attack service, sounds like he could make the ideal new CEO of Cloudflare. bloomberg.com/news/features/âŠ
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The media is seriously lagging behind the info sec curve here.
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