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.
Sep 7, 2022
Kryeministri Edi Rama - đŽ NjĂ« VENDIM I DETYRUAR I QEVERISĂ
đŽ NjĂ« VENDIM I DETYRUAR I QEVERISĂ si kundĂ«rpĂ«rgjigje ndaj njĂ« akti tĂ« paprovokuar dhe tĂ« pajustifikuar
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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.
Sep 5, 2022
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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.
Sep 5, 2022
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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.
Sep 6, 2022
The chips are down: Putin scrambles for high-tech parts as his arsenal goes up in smoke
List seen by POLITICO shows US and allies control chokepoint technologies sought by Moscow.
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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:
Sep 6, 2022
Invisible Formula Attacks
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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.
Sep 6, 2022
Privacy architectural changes in the web are coming
In 2019 I argued and explained that we are in the midst of a perfect storm that the privacy debate has caused. I predicted the impact on the web architecture, and the web platform. The thing that billions of people use every day, that is. These very basic building fabrics
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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
Sep 6, 2022
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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.
Sep 6, 2022
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If youâre interested in Windows IPC mechanisms, this is an excellent series by @0xcsandker:
Sep 6, 2022
Offensive Windows IPC Internals 1: Named Pipes · csandker.io
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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
Sep 6, 2022
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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)
Sep 6, 2022
An interview with Ukrainian hacker âHerm1tâ on countering pro-Kremlin attacks
Andrey Baranovich, who is known online as âHerm1t,â spent much of the â90s and â00s chronicling the history of malware development on a site known in the hacking community as VX Heaven.
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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 $1.3M for more than 2 months without explaining what exactly they are not happy with. Even @PayPal support doesn't know what's going on. â ïžThis endangers the production of Flipper Zero in general. More details in thread 1/5
Sep 6, 2022
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On October 18 â three days before Global Encryption Day (@encryption_day) on 21-Oct, the @USPS will release a new stamp honoring women cryptologists of World War II about.usps.com/newsroom/natioâŠ
Sep 7, 2022
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Bad decisions make great stories
Sep 7, 2022
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Complete article here on NFTs, gaming, and âŠcryptocolonialism?
How Minecraftâs NFT ban gutted a crypto empire - Rest of World
Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin.
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$META "Defence Budget" is ~$5B/year with >10,000 engineers working on Facebook's defence systems. This would make it the 43rd highest budget when compared with countries' military expenditure.
Aug 27, 2022
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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
Sep 6, 2022
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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
Sep 6, 2022
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The media is seriously lagging behind the info sec curve here.
So many people appear to want to believe TikTok was hacked. That's the only conclusion I can draw, seeing as it's now obvious it wasn't. Public data was scraped, and poster banned from Breach Forums for misinformation. #infosec #TikTok #TikTokersleaked
Sep 7, 2022
TikTok Denies Breach After Hacker Claims â2 Billion Data Recordsâ Stolen
After messages, and sample data, claiming TikTok has been hacked were posted online, TikTok says thereâs no evidence of a security breach.
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