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March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
Greg Linares (Mantis) @Laughing_MantisSo I've been just been briefed on a very disturbing trend of events that I think everyone should know. Ransomware...
March 9, 2023
March 9, 2023
My Life As Dad @milifeasdadWife: *Gives me her password to log into one of her accounts* Me: Nice work with picking a random password. Wife: It’s our...
March 8, 2023
March 8, 2023
David Gioe @GioeINTGreat analysis from @exexpat19 in @TheEconomist. The first hand experience and expertise from attaches can provide critical insights for...
March 7, 2023
March 7, 2023
Dom Sec 👾 @DomSecRocks@IanColdwater I curated an list from my past experience that included all the best videos. I recommend A-Z of B & E from the late...
March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023
Pinboard @PinboardChilling. There's a risk that China could be using cranes to spy on US manufactured goods as they arrive in the US from China *Walter...
March 5, 2023
March 5, 2023
- Jeffrey Ladish @JeffLadishWell Meta's 65 billion parameter language model just got leaked to the public internet, that was fast. Get ready for loads of...
March 4, 2023
March 4, 2023
Florian Roth @cyb3ropsAnyone in need of a signed Mimikatz executable? virustotal.com/gui/file/60191… 12:46 PM ∙ Mar 3, 2023982Likes179Retweets - Do you enjoy...
March 3, 2023
March 3, 2023
“The Russians had a common crook, a thug, on their hands with an Estonian passport,” Alexander Toots, the deputy director of the Kapo, told Yahoo News. “This...
March 2, 2023
March 2, 2023
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnikHow the KA-SAT satellite cyberattack, accompanying Russian land invasion of Ukraine, happened. 13...
March 1, 2023
March 1, 2023
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnikU.S. Congress to vote on a law that would make it easy to prohibit foreign apps. Like TikTok,...
February 28, 2023
February 28, 2023
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken “This was accomplished by targeting the DevOps engineer’s home computer and...
Twice as punctual?
February 27, 2023
This is Martha Peterson, a CIA officer under diplomatic cover in Moscow in the late 1970s. She was arrested while placing a dead drop concealed in a fake...
February 27, 2023
February 27, 2023
Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01Australia plans to reform cyber security rules, set up agency reuters.comAustralia plans to reform cyber security rules, set up...
February 26, 2023
February 26, 2023
- Dark Centrist Panera Mom (@scarnecchia@social.lol) @mountainherderIt's going to be grimly ironic when older Taliban in government start getting concerned...
February 25, 2023
February 25, 2023
Sanctions against Russian entities https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1296 Here are the ones which seem interesting (to me, anyway). Emphasis...
February 24, 2023
February 24, 2023
amelia elizalde @ameliaelizaldeI Am Looking For The Foley Artist Who Killed My Wife 1:19 AM ∙ Feb 24, 202310,149Likes1,183Retweets - Melvin of York...
February 23, 2023
February 23, 2023
Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasonoHUGE: A.I. can now emulate a human by shutting down when you ask about its emotions Davey Alba @daveyalbaI chatted with Bing...
February 22, 2023
February 22, 2023
Between Two Nerds: Is cyberespionage actually signals intelligence? I really enjoyed this conversation with Tom and I highly recommend listening to it....
February 21, 2023
February 21, 2023
🏴 Jurre van Bergen @DrWhaxTogether with @FbdnStories we obtained a brochure from the Guacamaya leak of the Columbian army where s2t's OSINT tool was pitched....
February 20, 2023
February 20, 2023
- Sabine Hossenfelder @skdhI've been doing my weekly Science News for about 4 months now. I have literally read thousands of press releases to that end. The...
February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023
Trail of Bits @trailofbitsAn appsec engineer was fawning over a sudo bug, leading him to research and discovery of a separate logic bug in Linux. Bottom...
Research
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Deterrence in Space
February 19, 2023
Deterrence doesn’t work in any domain that isn’t existential in my opinion. The US kept bombing groups in Syria and Iraq to deter Iran from launching attacks...
February 18, 2023
February 18, 2023
A good interview with Bret Devereaux - switched @switch_dFBI Hit With Some Sort of Hack Attempt, Says Incident Is 'Contained' “The attack reportedly targeted...
Learn from LockBit’s Leaked Logs
February 17, 2023
LockBit leaked logs of the negotiations with the Royal Mail These make for interesting reading. There are a bunch of techniques used by spies handling agents...
February 17, 2023
February 17, 2023
Shane Huntley @ShaneHuntley"Fog of War: How the Ukraine conflict Transformed the Cyber Threat Landscape" TAG's biggest ever report. Along with @Mandiant and...
February 16, 2023
February 16, 2023
Matthijs R. Koot @mrkootNew brochure from the NCSA of the General Intelligence and Security Service (@AIVD): AI-systems: develop them securely (Feb 2023)...
February 15, 2023
February 15, 2023
Tyler Dinucci!! @TylerDinuccievery new word of this tweet took me on a journey. David Charns @davidcharnsA woman accused of stabbing her date in a Las Vegas-...
February 14, 2023
February 14, 2023
Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha_botMy last BBC production for BBC Eye, "Finding My Torturer", won last week for Outstanding Innovation at the BBC News Awards....
February 13, 2023
February 13, 2023
Jeff Kosseff @jkosseffIn 2017, I testified in the House Judiciary Committee that FISA 702 is constitutional. It is up for reauthorization again this year,...
February 12, 2023
February 12, 2023
- StratoCat @stratoballoonAfter 12 hours of painstakingly searching, mile after mile, all Inner Mongolia using Apple maps I've finally found the location of...
February 11, 2023
February 11, 2023
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@Mastodon.Social) @lukOlejnik"University of Zurich is currently the target of a serious cyberattack. The perpetrators appear to...
February 10, 2023
February 10, 2023
Joe Tidy @joetidyBREAKING: 7 Russians have been named as being behind some of the most infamous cyber crime groups of recent years. The UK’s FCO has...
February 9, 2023
February 9, 2023
Matthijs R. Koot @mrkootInternational Security and Estonia 2023 (27.8MB .pdf, Jan/Feb 2023, 70pp) raport.valisluureamet.ee/2023/assets/WE… Report by the...
February 8, 2023
February 8, 2023
There’s always something to learn from people engaged in clandestine activity. A good example is this article on the Mexican Mafia. One of the quotes in here...
February 7, 2023
February 7, 2023
Hackers are mass infecting servers worldwide by exploiting a patched hole Today’s reminder that patch availability is not directly correlated to the end of...
February 6, 2023
February 6, 2023
New Perun - Justine Moore @venturetwinsAs ChatGPT becomes more restrictive, Reddit users have been jailbreaking it with a prompt called DAN (Do Anything...
February 5, 2023
February 5, 2023
cts @gf_256Lmao no way 6:53 AM ∙ Feb 5, 20231,415Likes239Retweets - Apple’s new algorithm to detect whether someone has been in a car accident is wreaking...
Feb 4, 2023
February 4, 2023
I suspect this wasn’t the secret service. They’re a bit busy these days, what with the war and all. olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherbaNice. Ukraine’s security...
Feb 3, 2023
February 3, 2023
Twitter is ending free API access. jenny_tightpants🪑 @halomancer1@TwitterDev 7:48 AM ∙ Feb 2, 202310,472Likes1,317Retweets - Subscribe now Tavis Ormandy...
Feb 2, 2023
February 2, 2023
Wondering how, exactly, your phone is tracked at all times, with locations made available to law enforcement? This video tutorial from a creepy surveillance...
February 1, 2023
February 1, 2023
More stuff on detecting AI written text vs human written text. First is from OpenAI, who are probably geniuses. They create a problem and then show up with...
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January 31, 2023
The Info OpDeterrence in Space Deterrence doesn’t work in any domain that isn’t existential in my opinion. The US kept bombing groups in Syria and Iraq to...
Jan 31, 2023
January 31, 2023
SH1MMER53 is an exploit capable of completely unenrolling enterprise-managed Chromebooks. https://sh1mmer.me - Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking...
Jan 30, 2023
January 30, 2023
This is very interesting. Russia is sending combat robots to Ukraine for testing. It will be interesting to see how they perform, their capabilities and...
Jan 29, 2022
January 29, 2023
- Abe Goldfarb @AbeGoldfarbsorry but nothing else comes close 💛 Julia Marchese 💛 @juliacmarcheseWhat film has the best tagline? #filmtwitter #movietwitter...
Jan 28, 2023
January 28, 2023
Obviously Everyone... @OMGSoOverItI tell all 3 of my kids that they are the password child.5:04 PM ∙ Jul 18, 2022557Likes186Retweets - ESET Research...
Jan 27, 2023
January 27, 2023
Gabriel Landau @GabrielLandauThink spoofed call stacks are clever? There's truth in the shadows. tiny.ccFinding Truth in the ShadowsLet’s discuss three...
Jan 26, 2023
January 26, 2023
Fun with macOS’s SIP MetalBear 🐻 - Tools for Backend Engineers Fun with macOS's SIP MetalBear 🐻 - Tools for Backend Engineers How we dealt with macOS's SIP...
Jan 25, 2023
January 25, 2023
Inside a Soviet analog computer for space navigation. This thing is glorious Inside Globus, A Soviet-Era Analog Space Computer | Hackaday Whenever [Ken...
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