Amazing work, as we have come to expect, from Kim Zetter.
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Excellent history video on the war experience of McBride, a WW1 machine gunner and sniper. He wrote “A Rifleman went to War” which is a great book.
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While we’re on YouTube, here is a great deep dive on keygens and music.
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The Chinese have a write up on an Indian APT group.
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mC5D8kFaQA-cIcw2rlTgeA
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What was a GRU doing in Ireland? NYT
The use of a fake Brazilian identity may be connected to Ireland’s non-visa requirement for Brazilian citizens who wish to study in Ireland.
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Olga Khmil, one of Molfar’s intelligence analysts, says Russia is now using group channels in messaging apps like Telegram to aim its artillery better. Russians pretending to be Ukrainians on these channels feign fear of shelling in order to elicit information about infrastructure that has and has not been hit. On May 24th the sbu revealed an even more devious approach to such espionage. The agency said it had discovered that Russian intelligence was using smartphone games to induce unwitting youngsters to snap and upload geotagged photos of critical infrastructure, military and civilian. In exchange, players receive virtual prizes of no value outside the video-game world.
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Secure messenger protocols.
https://blog.quarkslab.com/secure-messaging-apps-and-group-protocols-part-1.html
https://blog.quarkslab.com/secure-messaging-apps-and-group-protocols-part-2.html
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Very cool exploit.
https://hackerone.com/reports/1379975
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