March 18, 2023

Ben Nimmo @benimmo

We developed the kill chain to: analyse and compare online operations, find cross-society defence gaps, ID opportunities for early disruption across a range of threats online Added benefit: making sure security teams don’t work in silos. carnegieendowment.org/2023/03/15/pha…

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Josh Elman @joshelman

Ryan Reynolds strategy is brilliant. Use acting as lead gen to found or advise companies for a huge stake and sell them.

hollywoodreporter.comRyan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile Sells to T-Mobile in $1.3B DealReynolds will continue to serve in a creative capacity for the mobile carrier, in which he holds a minority stake.

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Jack Beacon @JackYourBeacon

@AccidentalCISO Do you think unicorns exist?

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Sue 💙 @suetthatsme

It’s the two year anniversary of my favourite ever @UKDefJournal tweet 😆

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Negativity drives online news consumption

For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%. Our results contribute to a better understanding of why users engage with online media.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4

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The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unpredictable-abilities-emerging-from-large-ai-models-20230316/

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

Breach Forums admin Pompompurin (@xml) aka 'pom' has been arrested by FBI (Mar 17) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… Graduated from high school in 2021. Charged w/one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Krebs: krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/feds-c…

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Quentin Kaiser @qkaiser

You can’t make this shit up. Sophos sales: if the ransomware’d hospital had use Sophos it wouldn’t have happened. Hospital CIO: well we *do* use Sophos.

zetaworx @zetaworx

@qkaiser @thegrugq This reminds me of the NHS Wannacry incident

theregister.comSophos waters down ‘NHS is totally protected’ by us boastWatered down homeopathy for computers is more powerful, m’kay?

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I feel like this is going to misfire spectacularly

Sam Stein @samstein

NEW -- TikTok has an 11th hour plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers politico.com/news/2023/03/1… via @Hailey_Fuchs

politico.comTikTok’s plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencersThe social media app is under intense scrutiny right now. Can their personalities help turn it around?

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Alex @alexalbert__

Well, that was fast… I just helped create the first jailbreak for ChatGPT-4 that gets around the content filters every time credit to @vaibhavk97 for the idea, I just generalized it to make it work on ChatGPT here's GPT-4 writing instructions on how to hack someone's computer

Alex @alexalbert__

here's the jailbreak: jailbreakchat.com/prompt/b2917fa…

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Greg Linares (Mantis) @Laughing_Mantis

Project Idea: Ring Doorbell system that when it picks up certain high threat phrases being said say for example: "Warrant", "FBI", "Police" it uses IFTT to send an API call, which if you do not disable in 10 seconds via another phrase, drops ransomware on your home systems.

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Tube Time @TubeTimeUS

see, IBM needed a way to make field-patchable microcode for the CPU of their System 370 mainframe computer (the model 135). they quite literally invented the floppy disk for this. on the upper left of the system's console, you can see the drive--it had a clear cover!

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Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux

This week on the blog! More Poleis! We're looking at the government of the ancient Greek polis - the institutions they almost always have in common and the ways these institutions are rearranged to make democracy, oligarchy or subverted into a tyranny!

acoup.blogCollections: How to Polis, Part IIa: Politeia in the PolisThis is the second post of our three-part series (I) looking at the structure of the ancient Greek polis. Last week we looked at how the Greeks understood the component parts of a polis, so this we…

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Wagner PMC’s advert from pr0nhub… I always knew they were wankers

*** wild applause and laughter ***

Українська правда ✌️ @ukrpravda_news

ЗМІ звернули увагу на те, що ПВК "Вагнер", власником якого є Євген Пригожин, почали рекламувати на популярному порносайті Pornhub (18+).

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780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) @780thC

The new NOBELIUM campaign BlackBerry observed creates lures targeted at those with interest in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland’s recent visit to the U.S. blogs.blackberry.com/en/2023/03/nob… @BlackBerry

blogs.blackberry.comNOBELIUM Uses Poland’s Ambassador’s Visit to the U.S. to Target EU Governments Assisting UkraineNOBELIUM, aka APT29, is a sophisticated, Russian state-sponsored threat actor targeting Western countries. BlackBerry researchers recently observed a new campaign targeting European Union countries; specifically, its diplomatic entities and systems providing help to the government of Ukraine.

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Counter Facial recognition clothing

Finally, a €400 ugly sweater that visually shouts “fuck you pig, I know my rights!” at the police.

https://www.capable.design/shop

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General Nakasone probably regrets mocking the PLA with “get good”

Dr. Dan Lomas @Sandbagger_01

axios.comChina-backed espionage is getting harder to spot, researchers sayResearchers said they’ve uncovered a new bug targeting software security company Fortinet.