The DevSec team is excited to sponsor and participate in the premiere AI - Security hackathon: @nebulafogsf.bsky.social See you all in San Francisco!

The Future of Deepfakes May Be as a More Targeted and Calculating Weapon https://buff.ly/3E91i8L

Eric Geller “ ‘An increasingly isolationist United States creates or amplifies a lot of problems that we're not going to be able to turn our backs on,’ says Nathaniel Fick .. ‘We may not be interested in the world, but the world is interested in us.’ “ www.wired.com/story/nathan...

BREAKING: court finds NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of #WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad time to be a spyware company. Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵

Interesting profile of an internal red team at AI company Anthropic. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-s...

NEW MAJOR @citizenlab.ca report investigates the gendered dimensions of digital transnational repression Interviews with 85 human rights defenders in 23 host countries shows alarming harassment, intimidation, disinformation, hacking and other targeted attacks Women chilled into silence 👇

Do you like books? Here are my picks for the top 10 security, technology, and business books of the year. Also includes some fiction recommendations and a few honorable mentions that didn't quite make the top 10 list. oodaloop.com/analysis/dec...

We have a serious problem with vulnerable gateway/edge devices. Andrew Morris from Greynoise says exploitation of these types of vulns is at crisis levels. Get this stuff off your network boundary! Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxye...

Google's new report on the commercial surveillance industry calls out some shady companies that usually manage to fly under the radar, such as Negg Group and Variston: storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

Here is the free version of an investigative piece just published at The Post with our ace New Delhi bureau chief. wapo.st/3PBtyme

“A few hours before departure from Moscow on August 23, two strangers entered the plane. They were brought by co-pilot Rustam Karimov. The man and woman presented themselves as potential buyers of Embraer Legacy, employees of RusJet. They inspected the plane for an hour”

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Welcome to the coldest summer of the rest of your life.

Interesting comment from @hultquist.bsky.social: "There was a time when they'd come through a simple proxy or even directly from China, but now they're connecting through elaborate, ephemeral proxy networks... It's not uncommon for a Chinese cyberespionage intrusion to traverse a random home router"

NEW: Chinese hackers compromised Commerce Secretary Raimondo's email as well as accounts of State Dept officials. Her agency has imposed stiff export controls on Chinese technologies that Beijing has denounced. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/microsoft-hack-china/

The head of #Russia’s #Sandworm wrote his master’s thesis on information warfare. I explained how he views destroying governments in it here: https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/06/29/russian-cyber-war-an-elite-russian-hacker-spells-out-his-vision-for-information-confrontation-in-world-politics/

I took a brief look at Threads and you know what I don't want? A Twitter clone where I am followed by my relatives and people I went clubbing with 15 years ago.

This post offers an overview of the latest Chinese surveillance laws & identifies questions foreign companies doing business in #China should address going forward https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/growing-risk-to-us-corporations-prc-laws-expand-ccp-oversight-and-surveillance-requirements/

Hacker summer camp is going to be a blast. Black Hat, Def Con, w00con, and lots of special village projects like this. https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2023/07/03/for-the-first-time-defcon-2023-hack-a-sat-includes-a-real-time-cubesat-orbiting-space/

https://t.co/WWUnXL2qeo Non-paywalled analysis of new tech-savvy Republican presidential candidate @willhurd, who once livestreamed his drive to DC from Texas with fellow House member @BetoORourke.

Microsoft services were hit by effective DDoS earlier this month. https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage-ddos-attack-hackers-outlook-onedrive-7a23f92ab3cc2b7f0c590c7d08cf03fe

My first Twitter post over 15 years ago was "Exploring Twitter", so I guess I'll settle for "Exploring BlueSky" this time. Look forward to kicking the tires.