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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...
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...
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