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June 21, 2022
June 21, 2022
Linux rootkit adore-ng is alive and well. Stealth wrote that code 20 years ago, and it is still going. https://decoded.avast.io/davidalvarez/linux-threat-...
June 20, 2022
June 20, 2022
This is fascinating insight into the psyche of the average Russian. toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomasAn interesting take on Russia and Russians by a Russian...
June 19, 2022
June 19, 2022
Amazing work, as we have come to expect, from Kim Zetter. Zero DayWhat It Means that the U.S. Is Conducting Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia When...
June 18, 2022
June 18, 2022
B. Dave Walters: I Say Words About Things @BDaveWaltersSCIENCE 9:36 AM ∙ Jun 17, 20221,259Likes397Retweets - Military Pigeons @MilitaryPigeonsRAF Pigeon...
June 17, 2022
June 17, 2022
I love this Dave Aitel video. - Great follow up thread on yesterday’s GRU illegal. Aric Toler @AricTolerDutch and Ukrainian intelligence are the two services...
June 16, 2022
June 16, 2022
Crazy story of the Indian police and hacking and all. Thomas Rid @RidTAbsolutely wild story that has it all: hacking, an extraordinary integrity attack, with...
June 15, 2022
June 15, 2022
In theory, and in the lab at least, this is a cool little attack. Intel is super skeptical it’s a big deal for many ppl. Who knows? It’s a bit early to make...
Quantified Failure
June 15, 2022
Data Driven Intelligence When planning regime change it is useful to know a bit about the target country’s population. How will they feel about the invasion...
June 14, 2022
June 14, 2022
During WW2 enemy beaches had to be surveyed and mapped. There was a top secret group of elite cartographers and surveyors who were up to the task! To carry...
June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022
Calum E. Douglas @CalumDouglas1Without actually understanding applied mathematics to a good level you cant win a world war. This is one of the most important...
June 12, 2022
June 12, 2022
Another reminder of how difficult it is to maintain good OPSEC for long periods of time. Mistakes are fatal, and inevitable. The better way to run a secret...
June 11, 2022
June 11, 2022
Great article on ancient warfare. I know you all subscribe for the history, so you’ll love this. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/no-...
June 10, 2022
June 10, 2022
[Ed: the end of RSAC week. The internets are out of cybers. They just need a glass of milk and a nap, and they'll be ready to go…] Farida Rustamova...
Userland Rootkits are Lame
June 10, 2022
Many people may not know this, but fifteen…twenty years ago I knew a thing or two about rootkit development. I wrote detection software for a few years as...
June 9, 2022
June 9, 2022
A userland rootkit is pretty weak. There are some easy ways to detect it. The simplest is to just use a staticky linked binary, like busybox, rather than the...
June 8, 2022
June 8, 2022
On June 5 Russians took over a streaming TV service in Ukraine and for ten minutes replaced the England v Wales football match with Russian propaganda. Cyber...
June 7, 2022
June 7, 2022
Probably the big article of the day, this one on CIA hacking. The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge | The New Yorker A hot-headed coder is accused of...
June 6, 2022
June 6, 2022
Wow Runa Sandvik @runasandAnne-Elisabeth Hagen, wife of Norwegian billionaire Tom Hagen, disappeared without a trace from her home near Oslo on 31 October...
June 5, 2022
June 5, 2022
JF Bastien @jfbastienI often think about this (now deleted) @johnregehr tweet: C is awesome because it defers problems to runtime, at which point people...
June 4, 2022
June 4, 2022
Amazing read. Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91The Russian 35th army, transferred from Far East and stationed in Izyum, is successfully destroyed by its own army command...
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