September 15, 2022

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb

We caught up with @k8em0 to talk about her tireless work to close the gender pay gap, and to create a more humane working culture in infosec and beyond.

vice.comThis Hacker Is Trying to Close the Gender Pay Gap in CybersecurityKatie Moussouris is trying to make working in cybersecurity more equitable for all.

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Summary of an article on HUMINT in the modern age. A lot of focus is on sending case officers into places and maintaining cover, but really HUMINT is about recruitment and running agents. The fantasy of elite undercover agents who shapeshift into new identities all the time is not accurate for the vast majority of intelligence work.

https://cybersecurity.svbtle.com/humint-in-the-digital-age

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Laura Edelson @LauraEdelson2

If you weren't paying attention to Ukraine over the last week.. you should. Aside from a stunning collapse of the Russian military (which has been rotting for decades, apparently), it is managing to show both the limits of disinformation and the power of the information war. 1/8

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Insane story. Police used DNA collected from a woman’s rape kit to arrest her for shoplifting. The DA dropped the case and California is passing laws prohibiting the used of DNA collected like this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/rape-kit-dna-san-francisco.html

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Shashank Joshi @shashj

I wrote a piece this week on Iran's involvement in two cyber campaigns: with Albania over the summer & with Israel over the past year. Both significant in their own way: Albania is a NATO ally and the Iran-Israel cyber activity is now intense & prolonged.

economist.comIran’s cyberwar goes globalIts targets include not only Israel but at least one NATO member

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Interesting paper. They’re getting AI to self modify, sorta. So that’s great.

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aaai.12064

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Electrospaces @electrospaces

German chancellor Scholz now has a huge red telephone on his desk, which is the newest generation secure telephone made by @secunet_AG. It's capable of encrypting voice and video conversations at different levels up to Secret: secunet.com/en/solutions/s…

Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz @Bundeskanzler

90 Minuten Telefonat mit #Putin: Russland muss seine Truppen aus der #Ukraine zurückziehen und die Souveränität und territoriale Integrität anerkennen. Anders ist eine diplomatische Lösung nicht vorstellbar. https://t.co/OizvxZHwiE

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CTurt @CTurtE

New blog post! Part 1 in my new PlayStation hacking series: An **unpatched** PS4 / PS5 userland exploit that also allows pirating PS2 games. mast1c0re: Hacking the PS4 / PS5 through the PS2 emulator - Part 1 - Escape: cturt.github.io/mast1c0re.html Video demo:

youtube.commast1c0re PS2 Emulator Escape Demo - Backup Loader ScenarioProof-of-concept demonstration of loading custom PS2 ISO files using the mast1c0re emulator escape exploit: https://cturt.github.io/mast1c0re.htmlThe lengthy...

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How parasites control hosts.

https://nautil.us/the-wizards-of-mind-control-238543/

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David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw

From a good conversation yesterday: “bugs are ok if there is a reliable process for finding them.” I believe this is often overlooked in programming. We fixate on making bugs impossible, where a better investment is making classes of bugs easily detectable.

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Charlie Stross @cstross

Harpers absolutely nails this week's royalist omnishambles:

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @CSMFHT

The perfect book display doesn't exis-

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Micro SF/F stories @MicroSFF

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien emerged. "Er," they said. They looked around, turned and looked at the door, then turned again. "Do you also experience that?" they asked the gathering crowd. "You go through a door and forget what you were going to do?"

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Dr. Dana Ménard @Shufflersunite

The cat who was completely obsessed with my bump when I was pregnant is quite uninterested in the baby now that she's out. It's a weird way to find out that my cat is a Republican.

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Rob Lee @RALee85

This is really bizarre. Russia committed ~85% of its BTGs (which includes naval infantry and VDV) by April. Those units took heavy losses, so Russia has depended on volunteers and reservists since then. The 11th Army Corps based in Kaliningrad was just heavily degraded in Kharkiv

Shashank Joshi @shashj

This is the head of the Bundeswehr, but I’m now wondering if he reads the news. https://t.co/cFpp3STKS5 https://t.co/AG5H7cHdKE

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Byron Wan @Byron_Wan

Xu Yanjun — a 🇨🇳 State Security official and the first Chinese intel agent ever to be extradited to the US to stand trial — attempted to steal technology related to GE Aviation’s exclusive composite aircraft engine fan to benefit China. 1/n bloomberg.com/news/features/…

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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Callsign Batya @Reaperfeed1

Russian army digs deeper into it's reserves, now by conscripting prisoners. We are working on an article about so called PMC "Wagner", will be released on our website soon

Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv

One of the recruited prison inmates leaving a Russian prison to fight in Ukraine.

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ChrisO @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Did a culture of institutionalised lying contribute to Russia's recent disaster east of Kharkiv, by giving its senior commanders a distorted and false picture of the true situation on the ground? A 🧵 reviewing the evidence.

ChrisO @ChrisO_wiki

33/ As the Russian "Vostok" battalion commander Aleksandr Khodakovsy puts it in a recent Telegram post, "Everything that happens on the ground stays on the ground, and we will only send to the top the things that will not disturb anyone's sleep.

Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession

https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/466/

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Metro @MetroUK

The world of chess has been rocked by the biggest scandal in years after a player allegedly used wireless anal beads and its vibrations to signal his next move... 😭 Iconic? Let's find out 👇 trib.al/8jNhfis

trib.alChess world rocked by rumours of anal beads and artificial intelligenceFans speculated that anal beads could transmit messages.