April 13 2023

In retrospect, this seems like a bad idea.

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The #VulkanFiles were shared with a media org through its @SecureDrop server, the source never revealing their identity. Great discussion about what that meant for verifying and reporting on the information

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For two years media outlets...tried to get an update on the case. But the sheriff, the city, and the FBI would only say the investigation was ongoing. But was it?" Florida TV station gets FBI to finally admit they found no evidence of a hack at Oldsmar

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We're excited to announce the release of PwC's 6th annual 'Year in Retrospect' #threatintel report! We have again consolidated the most impactful threat activity and trends from 2022 across all our global incident response, managed security, and threat research services

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The man behind the Discord leaks: A young gun lover who worked on a military base and shared classified info with a small group of men and boys searching for companionship amid the pandemic.

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I never want to hear about the 'going dark problem' again: this shit was just sitting on an non-e2ee'd server for months, in control of a company that is fully cooperating

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I knew it. Dan Goodin reports over on Mastodon that that FBI Denver warning about so-called juice jacking was not based on any new cases, but rather just a chain of previous news articles. All of which themselves had no solid basis. Do better, Bureau.

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Joe Biden gaffe alert:

@POTUS just said his rugby player cousin @KearneyRob “beat the hell out of the Black and Tans”….instead of the @AllBlacks

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Today is the day I march into my boss's office and announce that he's an incompetent idiot and tomorrow is the day he gets back from vacation

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Russians Hacked Cameras in Ukraine Coffee Shops for Intel: US Official

"There are creative things going on. We are watching the Russian hackers log into public-facing webcams to watch convoys and trains delivering aid," he said.

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A threat group tracked by Microsoft as DEV-0196 is linked to an Israel-based private sector offensive actor (PSOA) known as QuaDream, which reportedly sells a suite of exploits, malware, and infra. Read our analysis in collaboration with @citizenlab:

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Together with the Military Counterintelligence Service we've detected an ongoing espionage campaign linked to the APT29/NOBELIUM group. We're publishing detailed technical analysis of their latest tools, mostly never publicly described before. Read more

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Daniel Plohmann presented MCRIT, a framework to spot code similarities https://github.com/danielplohmann/mcrit… Really nice research and quite useful! NOTE: You need to understand what’s matching and how unique it is, don’t make attribution randomly #Botconf2023 #reversing 

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Norway declares 15 intelligence officers working at Russian embassy in Oslo personae non gratae ‘The intelligence officers have been engaging in activities that are not compatible with their diplomatic status,’ said FM Anniken Huitfe

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Every day, it's important to remind people that it will be cops who enforce the planned nationwide ban on abortion, traveling for abortion, and subsequently contraception. There is no conceivable world in which increasing police surveillance tech and budgets is not used for this.

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European Parliament expert report delivers a rare, damning verdict on EU Commission's legislative plans to combat online child abuse imagery. Confirms what experts suspected all along: Ineffective approach and infringement of user rights.

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"there is only so much ‘high-quality’ text on the internet (for example, books and academic journal articles), which may soon become a more pressing constraint on the development of language models than the availability of computing power"

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