June 8, 2022

On June 5 Russians took over a streaming TV service in Ukraine and for ten minutes replaced the England v Wales football match with Russian propaganda. Cyber war!

https://babel.ua/en/news/79510-hackers-attacked-oll-tv-during-the-match-ukraine-wales-they-included-russian-propaganda-instead-of-football

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A long and winding thread of rather amazing innovation.

Andy Arthur 💃🏰🦌 @cocteautriplets

This is Clydebank. Specifically, this is Dalmuir. And this is a thread 🧵. Specifically, a thread about Dalmuir's fleeting involvement in the production of giant, improbable aircraft. 👇 (📷Stephen Sweeney / CC BY-SA)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1515081358225326082.html

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Not sure if the claims match the reality. But interesting anyway

https://github.com/sensity-ai/dot

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wilf @friendlykitties

you’re in her DMs; i’m boarding Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, from Portland to Seattle on the afternoon of November 24, 1971. i’m taking seat 18C and ordering a bourbon and soda. i am passing the stewardess a handwritten note.

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Round up on good articles on the Russian army.

https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/not-built-for-purpose-the-russian-militarys-ill-fated-force-design/

Great analysis on why the Russian army isnt as good as people thought. This was *before* the invasion. So extra credit goes to Stanimir Dobrev.

https://international-review.org/dwarfing-the-giant-the-reality-of-russias-military-part-i/

https://international-review.org/dwarfing-the-giant-the-reality-of-russias-military-part-ii/

And finally, how miserable it is:

https://cepa.org/russias-military-telegrams-its-discontent/

This had me thinking a lot about a book I started reading, “Sheer Misery”, which looks at how war is experienced by the soldiers. A General complains that the bad winter weather is putting more men out of action than the enemy. That is, he thinks of his soldiers as “units of force.” For the soldiers though, the weather is visceral. Their feet swell, go black, lose sensation. Their fingers turn blue and freeze solid. It is a torturous experience that they never forget.

Anyway, just made me think about how the experience of being a soldier in Ukraine must be sheer misery in its own way. Apparently some Russians were given pies by a nice old lady, except they were poisoned and 8 of them died.

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Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91

Can we believe the Russian phone calls intercepted and published by Ukrainian SBU and GUR? Read 🧵👇 or visit wartranslated.com/can-we-believe… This is a very popular question I'm asked a lot as someone involved with translating the calls for the public...

wartranslated.comCan we believe the Russian phone calls intercepted and published by Ukrainian SBU and GUR? • WarTranslated - Dmitri MasinskiIn the three months I’ve been translating material from the war in Ukraine, no topic has been as consistently popular among my translations as various calls between Russian soldiers and their family members, intercepted and published online by Ukrainian SBU (Security) and GUR (Intelligence) services…

Some highlights:

Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91

published - for instance, a few weeks ago in one of his daily livestreams the Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Aleksey Arestovych mentioned the intercepted calls from the first days of war he was given to listen where apparently Russian soldiers...

Dmitri 🇺🇦 @mdmitri91

were so brazen and confident in their upcoming victory they were calling restaurants in Kyiv booking tables for whole brigades and regiments - one call mentioned "reserving a table for 1,500 people" in one of Kyiv's popular cafeterias. Obviously, it was a troll call from the...

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Enjoy a virtual tour of the RSA conference expo floor.

Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig

Having spent an hour or so walking the floor of @RSAConference, it's rather clear that #RSAC's not about security learning, but rather about selling security in a box. As @mattstratton famously said in a talk once, "you can't buy DevOps but I sure would like to sell it to you."

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Ethan Mollick @emollick

Science fictional organization structures, a 🧵 Any organization, has to answer 3 questions: 🏭Division of labor: who specializes in what? 👩‍⚖️Decision rights: who makes decisions & when? 🤝Coordination: how do we handle supervision & procedures? The org chart 👇answers these 1/

Ethan Mollick @emollick

The first org chart was made for the New York & Erie Railroad in 1854, solving issues of control & coordination in ways we still use. Not only is it full of plant-inspired beauty, it also combines a map of the physical railroad & one of company structure. https://t.co/uvqmwhvO6T https://t.co/Sqh6670AFW

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Andy Boyd @ajcboyd

Articles like this, and some recent books, extolling the dominance of open source are becoming tedious. Too many authors at best only partially understand that of which they speak. Good secret intelligence agencies, certainly those of UK, have always paid close attention to/1

Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01

https://t.co/ls4eVQ1ib8

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josh ackerman @joshuaackerman

i have thought about this hacker news comment nearly every day since november ninth twenty seventeen

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John Lyon @JohnLyonTweets

Sorry I wrote "harvest organs" on your chart when I visited you in the hospital.

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Telegram is pretty sure that the thread on an exploited vulnerability is a hoax.

Telegram Messenger @telegram

An anonymous account made a baseless claim that they were able to access the contents of private group chats on Telegram. No such vulnerability has ever been found. This is likely a hoax with the intent to get users to download malware.

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Giant Military Cats @giantcat9

A view of Checkpoint Charlie in 1963, from the American sector

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Stephen Turton @StephenMTurton

The romantic tension between these two is off the charts.

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dell cameron @dellcam

fascists interrupting drag shows is nothing new

Oliver Harris @oliharris808

British Soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shornemead Fort, England in 1940 https://t.co/RWmUWVO5TW

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NSA is very upset that someone read the Snowden leaks as a guide.

NSA Cyber @NSACyber

PRC sponsored cyber actors have exploited telecommunications and other network service providers to expand targeting worldwide. Our latest report with @CISAgov and @FBI outlines continued general trends and specific TTPs used in this targeting. nsa.gov/Press-Room/New…

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Kim Zetter @KimZetter

China was responsible for exploiting 10% of all zero days that were exploited in 2021 - the most of any threat actor tracked, says @JumpforJoyce

Daniel Moore @ILDannyMoore

@KimZetter @JumpforJoyce Churning through that many exploits in a year is on one hand a show of competence on acquiring exploits, but it's also operationally lazy and wasteful

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Matt Graeber @mattifestation

Thanks to all @reconmtl who attended my talk on abusing the features of ELAM drivers in order to run arbitrary code as a protected process. The slides and a defanged abuse script are posted here.

github.comGitHub - mattifestation/AntimalwareBlight: Execute PowerShell code at the antimalware-light protection level.Execute PowerShell code at the antimalware-light protection level. - GitHub - mattifestation/AntimalwareBlight: Execute PowerShell code at the antimalware-light protection level.