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April 4, 2023
Meet the FSB contractor: 0Day Technologies
An investigation into the FSB’s digital surveillance and disinformation contractor (🧵)
— clem (@clementbriens)
1:49 PM • Apr 1, 2023
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A front company in New Jersey signed the contract for the unknown gov agency. The company - “Cleopatra Holdings” - is actually Riva Networks, the same company the FBI used two years earlier to purchase Pegasus.
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter)
10:21 PM • Apr 2, 2023
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Attention Firefox bug bounty hunters: WebGPU is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly and eligible for bounty rewards. It's a large chunk of new code with plenty of attack surface for everyone to share.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
— Dan Veditz (@dveditz)
5:31 AM • Apr 2, 2023
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Germany’s cybersecurity agency BSI, which is charged with ensuring the security of the country’s 5G network, has now admitted that it uses Huawei internally itself. In Germany, fact trumps fiction when it comes to the total disregard for national security
— Noah Barkin (@noahbarkin)
6:00 AM • Apr 3, 2023
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The Military Strategic Effects of the Russian National Segment of the Internet (2023) urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-9…
Direct link to thesis (2.2MB .pdf, 148pp) doria.fi/bitstream/hand…
Author: Dr Juha Kukkola / Finnish National Defence University (@mpkkfi).
/c @paulducheine
— Matthijs R. Koot (@mrkoot)
6:14 PM • Apr 3, 2023
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The wife says our marriage is boring so I replaced the air freshner in the bathroom with an air horn
— Crac⚡ked (@a_simpl_man)
1:09 PM • Sep 23, 2020
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UK’s offensive hacking unit takes on military opponents and terrorist groups
Today the National Cyber Force publishes a doctrine, "Responsible Cyber Power in Practice" & publicly avows its commander, GCHQ's James Babbage. Below, my interview with him. We discussed NCF's "doctrine of cognitive effect" & offensive cyber more broadly
economist.com/britain/2023/0…— Shashank Joshi (@shashj)
5:44 AM • Apr 4, 2023
Paper here. Well worth a read.
A panel discussion on the paper is happening here, on Wednesday:
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Can't wait for Elon to change the Twitter logo into a doge or some other equally cringe shit.
— SystemFreez ❄️ (@SystemFreez)
1:12 PM • Apr 25, 2022
@SAMOYEDWAVE I'm so sorry
— SystemFreez ❄️ (@SystemFreez)
1:44 AM • Apr 4, 2023
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The latest instalment of Gwen Tovey's memoir on sees her applying for and getting a job at GCHQ, and tells a couple of stories about GCHQ analysts.
— Tony Comer (@TCHisTree)
11:05 AM • Apr 4, 2023
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1/ @samczsun explained that the attacker exploited the vulnerability in mev-boost-relay to drain MEV bots. After digging into the attack, we have two more findings. First, the attacker used a honeypot tx to lure MEV bots. Second, the honeypot tx has a self-protected mechanism.
— BlockSec (@BlockSecTeam)
7:25 PM • Apr 3, 2023
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We have no secrets for the multi-billion dollar digital advertising industry. Moreover, through online-auctions these are sold across the globe to the highest bidder. From private persons to criminals & intelligence agencies.
@gerardusjanssen for @FTM_eu
ftm.eu/articles/your-…— Sebastiaan Brommersma (@SebastiaanBrom1)
9:55 AM • Apr 4, 2023
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Even if you can't write assembly like a poet, you can read disassembly like a hunter
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In the UK, there's the National Cyber Force (NCF), which conducts offensive cyber operations for both military and civilian purposes:
— Electrospaces (@electrospaces)
11:34 AM • Apr 4, 2023
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