June 17, 2022

I love this Dave Aitel video.

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Great follow up thread on yesterday’s GRU illegal.

Aric Toler @AricToler

Dutch and Ukrainian intelligence are the two services that will publish hilarious / super revealing stuff about the intel agents that they bust.

Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer

Dutch intelligence agencies say that they have identified a Russian GRU agent who tried to intern at the ICC under a false Brazilian identity. They have also released his rather touching four-page cover letter https://t.co/qRq8hLU5y6 https://t.co/pkZOTC2Svc

Here’s his CV. Trinity college, and SAIS.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220616150105/https://www.myvisajobs.com/Victor-Muller-CV-472707.htm

And here’s one of his professors from SAIS

Eugene Finkel @eugene_finkel

I had good reasons to hate Russian security services before. Now I am just exploding. I feel angry, I feel stupid, I feel naive, I feel tired. I got played. I had him in class. Twice, in fact. One class was half-Zoom during COVID, several interactions outside classroom

Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer

Dutch intelligence agencies say that they have identified a Russian GRU agent who tried to intern at the ICC under a false Brazilian identity. They have also released his rather touching four-page cover letter https://t.co/qRq8hLU5y6 https://t.co/pkZOTC2Svc

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Simon Doubleday @SimonDoubleday

So, one of the authors of the fascinating #BlackDeath article in "Nature" is quoted as saying: "Our finding that the Black Death originated in Central Asia in the 1330s puts centuries-old debates to rest." reuters.com/lifestyle/scie… I must say that I doubt this.

reuters.comAncient DNA solves mystery over origin of medieval Black DeathAncient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern Kyrgyzstan as the launching point for the Black Death that killed tens of millions of people in the mid-14th century.

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James Mulvenon @jmulvenon

Former University of Arkansas Professor Sentenced to a Year and a Day for Lying to Federal Agents About Patents in China justice.gov/opa/pr/former-…

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Jan Lemnitzer @JanLemnitzer

This is far too important to remain a purely technical discussion. We need a political debate whether we want to use the new cybersecurity certification scheme to exclude all three leading US-based cloud providers from the EU market. 1/2 @ciaranmartinoxf

euractiv.comSovereignty requirements remain in cloud certification scheme despite backlashThe draft Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS), seen by EURACTIV, includes sovereignty requirements on European data localisation and foreign law immunity, even though member states and tech industry representatives strongly advised against it.

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Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

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Ray @SirEviscerate

DOG: I think that job interview went well! *looks in mirror and sees ear was inside-out the whole time* Son of a

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NCC Group Research & Technology @NCCGroupInfosec

Understanding the Impact of Ransomware on Patient Outcomes – Do We Know Enough? by Stuart Kurutac

research.nccgroup.comUnderstanding the Impact of Ransomware on Patient Outcomes – Do We Know Enough?The healthcare sector and ransomware attacks appear together frequently in the media. Since before the start of the pandemic rarely a week goes by without at least one story about a healthcare organisation falling victim to a ransomware attack. We often hear about the financial impact these attacks…

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max seddon @maxseddon

Putin's set to make an "extremely important speech" with "a profound assessment of the reasons for what's happening" at @SPIEF, Russia's top economic event. It's already been pushed back an hour – the Kremlin says cyberattacks took down the entry system.

But just before Mr. Putin was scheduled to appear, the Kremlin said his appearance would be delayed by an hour. The reason: “large-scale” distributed denial-of-service cyberattacks on the conference’s computer systems.

IT Army of Ukraine, a “hacktavist” group behind a lot of attacks on Russian websites, had earlier flagged the economic forum as a target. “The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is starting today, so let’s ‘visit’ it online together,” the group said on its Telegram channel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/world/europe/putin-us-world-power.html

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Marcin Wichary @mwichary

3. The last place was a literal barn in the middle of nowhere. (Yes, even a small country like the Netherlands has a middle of nowhere.) In that barn, a certain DEC enthusiast gathered a lot of Digital machines from the 1970s and 1980s.

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