July 24, 2022

The Times and The Sunday Times @thetimes

Leaked documents reveal the Pope handed powers to investigators allowing them to tap phones, intercept emails and arrest anyone they wanted to without seeking approval from a judge

thetimes.co.ukPope gave police nod to bug UK financierThe Pope authorised the bugging of a British businessman at the centre of the Vatican’s “trial of the century”.Leaked documents reveal the Pope handed powers t

Active Measures, LLC @FCDserviceA_llc

It's not a pagoda unless it's built with materials pouched in with diplomatic seals from the espionage region of China.

CNN @CNN

FBI efforts to uncover Chinese espionage determined Huawei equipment in the US heartland could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications https://t.co/J37Sh7lQYf

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World of Engineering @engineers_feed

99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs in the code, take one down, patch it around… …147 little bugs in the code.

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DPRK is going all ransomware.

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/07/14/north-korean-threat-actor-targets-small-and-midsize-businesses-with-h0lygh0st-ransomware/

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The big repo of Windows persistence methods.

https://persistence-info.github.io

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I was doing some work on secure comms for people, and Session came up. In looking for info, I found this thread along with some other info and… eh, I’m not comfortable with the project for serious use.

https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/n1ph8y/thoughts_about_the_session_secure_messenger/

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Kyle Mizokami 🇺🇦 @KyleMizokami

A friend of mine who I've known for several years is a foreign volunteer. He's doing DIY SIGINT work, Russian comms traffic, drone signals, all sorts of stuff with a software defined radio, tablet, and Yagi antenna.

Kyle Mizokami 🇺🇦 @KyleMizokami

Today, around mid-morning Ukraine time, he says "Somebody has been spamming Russian tactical frequencies, with high power and a lot of bandwidth bleed, in fluent, nuanced Russian: "I love the smell of dead Russians in the morning."

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DilDog @dildog

Tired: Persona non grata Wired: Persona au gratin

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Virtual Colossus @VirtualColossus

Time to pause messing with 3d models and actually add in the Lorenz SZ40/42 emulation. Starting to test enciphering some text. The Lorenz XOR adds the entered char to two others. One generated by the first 5 Psi rotors and one from the last 5 Chi rotors. @tnmoc #VirtualLorenz3D

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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake

The sideways map of the Mediterranean is a real mental palate-cleanser.

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A daily updated summary of the most frequent types of security incidents currently being reported from different sources.

https://github.com/karimhabush/cyberowl

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

Cyber Resiliency Approaches & Controls to Mitigate Adversary Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures (TTPs)—Mapping Cyber Resiliency to the ATT&CK® Framework, Revision 2 (July 2022) mitre.org/publications/t… Direct link to report (5.9MB .pdf, Dec 2021, 309 pages) mitre.org/sites/default/…

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

Beyond Blame: What Investigations of Intelligence Failures Can Learn from Aviation Safety (June 2021) doi.org/10.1080/088506… Article by Tony Ingesson (@tonyingesson), published in Int'l Journal of Intel & Counterintel (@Intel_IJIC) 35:3, 2022. Open Access. #intelligence

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Help Net Security @helpnetsecurity

Detectree: Open-source tool simplifies data analysis for blue teams, reduces alert fatigue - helpnetsecurity.com/2022/07/22/det… - @WithSecure #opensource #Github #securityoperations #cybersecurity #security #infosecurity #itsecurity #CISO #cybersecuritynews #securitynews