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April 29, 2023
April 29, 2023
April 29, 2023 On the Road to Failure Presentations and pitch decks by the largest business failures and corporate frauds...
April 28, 2023
April 28, 2023
April 28, 2023 First up-close images of Mars’s little-known moon Deimos Images from the UAE’s Hope mission suggest that the moonlet’s composition is similar...
April 27, 2023
April 27, 2023
April 27, 2023 So, I think I figured out how these edited casualty counts came about. The first public mention of them was through the pro-Russia Donbass...
April 26, 2023
April 26, 2023
April 26, 2023 I clicked on an ad and saw this in the url &utm_campaign=NC_Conv_babyboomers and I've never been so offended— GonzoHacker (@GonzoHacker) April...
April 25, 2023
April 26, 2023
April 25, 2023 Administrivia: Sorry about the last couple newsletters. There is a bug in the newsletter provider’s code. The preview shows proper embedding,...
April 24, 2023
April 24, 2023
April 24, 2023 Apologies for the previous newsletter. INVISV: "What can the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extincti…" - IOC.exchange What can the Cretaceous-...
April 23, 2023
April 23, 2023
April 23, 2023 Administrivia: I have migrated to buttdown.email which supports markdown, has embeds for Twitter and Mastodon and even has an API. I'm still...
April 22, 2023
April 22, 2023
April 22, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8q24QLXixo https://twitter.com/janlemnitzer/status/1649426904460546048...
April 21, 2023
April 21, 2023
April 21, 2023 China building cyber weapons to hijack enemy satellites, says US leak via @FT (£) https://t.co/foagowZQp0— Ciaran Martin (@ciaranmartinoxf)...
April 20, 2023
April 20, 2023
Google embargo on another linux kernel issue found by @_esoj1 and I finally lifted... here is the advisory: https://t.co/ZQ9EmEvtwW— Rodrigo Branco...
April 17, 2023
April 17, 2023
https://grugq.beehiiv.com/p/april-17-2023 - - New blog post: Data Driven Detection Engineering. In which I argue for stronger software engineering skills in...
April 16, 2023
April 16, 2023
https://grugq.beehiiv.com/p/april-16-2023 Next week I will be able to migrate the mailing list over to Beehiiv. This will hopefully be one of the last...
April 15, 2023
April 15, 2023
https://grugq.beehiiv.com/p/april-15-2023 Try this ^^ - New: the bombs weren't real. Neither was the voice. We've traced some of the nationwide swatting wave...
April 14, 2023
April 14, 2023
Announcement I am trying out Beehiiv as a replacement for Substack, given how Substack is no longer supported by Twitter. If the newsletter changes...
April 13 2023
April 13, 2023
In retrospect, this seems like a bad idea. - The #VulkanFiles were shared with a media org through its @SecureDrop server, the source never revealing their...
April 12, 2023
April 12, 2023
Biden is visiting Norther Ireland and the locals have put up welcome signs. - Microsoft just patched a Critical vulnerability we found in the Message Queuing...
April 11, 2023
April 11, 2023
This sucks. I think I will have to actively seek a solution because this is no fun. The Info Op is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and...
April 10, 2023
April 10, 2023
- FTX stored private keys to its crypto wallets in AWS 🫠 pic.twitter.com/IFoLwBhmzZ— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) April 9, 2023 - *youth pastor voice* you know...
April 9, 2023
April 9, 2023
- Mark Mossberg @offlinemarkUpdate: I started a Youtube channel!🎥 In addition to writing, I've found that I really enjoy recording screencasts Currently...
April 8, 2023
April 8, 2023
Leaked top secret documents were posted on a Discord server called, “Thug Shaker Central.” Possibly as early a January. They spread to other servers and to...
April 7, 2023
April 7, 2023
Twitter cuts off Substack embeds and starts suspending bots Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links - The Verge...
Cyber doctrine?
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One of the more amazing things that the US military did was their force restructuring program in the 1970s. They thought about what sort of wars they would...
April 6, 2023
April 6, 2023
Substack and Twitter are fighting, or one/both of them is non functional. Substack insists on converting Twitter links into embedded tweets. Great! Except...
April 5, 2023
April 5, 2023
Joseph Cox @josephfcoxNew: the IRS wants to buy an internet mass monitoring tool. This tool allows investigators to see what is happening on the wider...
April 4, 2023
April 4, 2023
clem @clementbriensMeet the FSB contractor: 0Day Technologies An investigation into the FSB’s digital surveillance and disinformation contractor (🧵) clement-...
April 3, 2023
April 3, 2023
SLF @slffishOur Q1 selection OpenSSH Pre-Auth Double Free CVE-2023-25136 jfrog.com/blog/openssh-p… Dota 2 Under Attack: How a V8 Bug Was Exploited in the...
April 2, 2023
April 2, 2023
- Yesterday's Print @yesterdaysprintThe Tampa Tribune, Florida, April 1, 1939 6:00 PM ∙ Apr 1, 2023140Likes30Retweets - Ian Coldwater 📦💥 @IanColdwaterok this...
April 1, 2023
April 1, 2023
Jan Lemnitzer @JanLemnitzerIf this is a supply chain attack them it is a very well chosen target as the critical services it provides to the UK government...
March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023
AI and the American Smile A really good critique of AI images. The training data is on photos of modern Americans, who have a certain cultural conditioning...
March 30, 2023
March 30, 2023
Between Two Nerds: The Real Problem with TikTok The best podcast has released another episode. https://risky.biz/BTN30/ - Google finds more Android, iOS...
March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023
Cannot recommend this highly enough Dan Black @DanWBlackGrateful to @IISS_org for the opportunity to share some thoughts around the success of Ukraine’s...
March 28, 2023
March 28, 2023
Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaughI wrote about this issue earlier this year when Twitter complied with India's demands to censor a BBC doc. It laid bare the...
March 27, 2023
March 27, 2023
- Matthew Green @matthew_d_greenThe future of censorship-resistant communications is going to be distributing LLMs trained on dissident content, rather than...
March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckelfascinating, granular details in this FBI affidavit unsealed last night about a Russian intel agent who created a false Brazilian...
March 25, 2023
March 25, 2023
raptor@infosec.exchange @0xdeaCurrently catching up with some not-so-recent papers... I love this one from 2021 by @marcograss and @0xKira233! Over The Air...
March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyixTwo interesting security examples from the recently-released paper from MSR "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early...
March 23, 2023
March 23, 2023
Aristotle Tzafalias @Aristot73Open source libraries should stop forcing their way into the code base of billion $ companies. just stop! Sam Altman @samawe...
March 22, 2023
March 22, 2023
David Buchanan @David3141593holy FUCK. Windows Snipping Tool is vulnerable to Acropalypse too. An entirely unrelated codebase. The same exploit script works...
March 21, 2023
March 21, 2023
A very sad day. Kelly was a wonderful person who was always good to talk to. We met over a decade ago at Ekoparty, we had a great time. Over the years we...
March 20, 2023
March 20, 2023
Spy Collection @SpyCollection1Covert listening device found in 2017 inside a Coat of Arms plaque in the office of #Ghana's Minister for Lands & Natural...
March 19, 2023
March 19, 2023
Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCCNEW: The Australian Parliament just published the most comprehensive exploration yet of the CCP’s ties to TikTok. The 113-page...
March 18, 2023
March 18, 2023
Ben Nimmo @benimmoWe developed the kill chain to: analyse and compare online operations, find cross-society defence gaps, ID opportunities for early...
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnikSeized cameras, electronic equipment and GPS transmitters, which the suspects planned to PLACE ON...
March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023
Ollie Whitehouse @ollieatnowhereGreat to see @uksciencechief say: "We recommend amending the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to include a statutory public interest...
It’s World War One all over again.
March 15, 2023
The current situation on the Ukrainian front lines is often compared to the Western front of World War One. The parallels are indeed very strong, to the...
March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023
- Alain M. @plopz0rA quick writeup on how I was able to exploit Fortinet's heap overflow (CVE-2022-42475) : blog.scrt.chProducing a POC for CVE-2022-42475...
March 14, 2023
March 14, 2023
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnikNew US Army budget for FY2024 considers lots of funds to cyber-activities (defence, offence)....
March 13, 2023
March 13, 2023
Qatar giving the Mossad a run for their money with the espionage Qatar bugged Swiss Attorney General and FIFA President Infantino An intelligence operation...
March 12, 2023
March 12, 2023
- Fidelius Schmid @FideliusSchmidFrom the Ritz Hotel in Moscow to a brothel in Berlin. The mole, a diamonds trader and the husband of one of Russia‘s richest...
March 11, 2023
March 11, 2023
Russia’s Cyber Tactics: Lessons Learned in 2022 — SSSCIP analytical report on the year of russia’s full-scale cyberwar against Ukraine Big report dropped on...
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