Dear PR world:
Please do not pitch me on how your cybersecurity solution/client could have prevented the WSJ hack that you have no details about.
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reporter covering cyber and intelligence. Priors w/ and . I write about a lot of three-letter agencies. It can happen here.
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Just randomly reupping our 2019 investigation into China's widespread corporate espionage hacking, if anyone is looking for a good Friday longread:
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More details in News Corp.'s SEC filing today, which say that hackers targeted a technology supplier. Data was taken. investors.newscorp.com/node/11716/html
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"News Corp believes the threat activity is contained and has been offering guidance to affected employees."
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New, breaking: @WSJ and other News Corp. properties were compromised in a persistent cyberattack that targeted journalists. Mandiant believes hackers "likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China’s interests."
wsj.com/articles/cyber
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New, breaking: and other News Corp. properties were compromised in a persistent cyberattack that targeted journalists. Mandiant believes hackers "likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China’s interests."
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News Corp has announced it has been the target of a persistent cyberattack that "affected a limited number of our employees."
Mandiant is investigating and believes the hackers "are likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China's interests."
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This gets interesting if/when DHS wants to probe the hack of a big company, rather than an open-source nonprofit. Review board can't subpoena firms for info, while DHS is staking much of its broader cyber strategy on voluntary help from businesses in other areas.
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New: DHS is launching a new Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled after the NTSB, to probe major national cyber crises. Membership is a who's who of gov't and private sector. First order of business: Probing Log4j vulnerabilities.
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Memo circulated among Trump allies advocated using NSA data in attempt to prove stolen election & allies sought help of senators during Trump Hotel meeting to get machines. W/, , & :
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Rob Silvers at DHS is the cyber review board's inaugural chairman, and will serve as vice chair. Others on the 15-member board include , , , , DoJ's John Carlin, and . wsj.com/articles/biden
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New: DHS is launching a new Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled after the NTSB, to probe major national cyber crises. Membership is a who's who of gov't and private sector. First order of business: Probing Log4j vulnerabilities.
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New: DHS is launching a new Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled after the NTSB, to probe major national cyber crises. Membership is a who's who of gov't and private sector. First order of business: Probing Log4j vulnerabilities.
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We’ve come a long way, NSPM 13! wsj.com/articles/trump
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If you had NSPM-13 on your right-wing coup bingo card, please collect your winnings. (Good lord...) washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/
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For weeks, observers of North Korea have noted that the country's internet seemed to be under attack, with all its websites down at times. This wasn't the work of US Cyber Command. It was a single hacker getting even after NK spies targeted him last year.
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SCOOP: President Biden is directing the Pentagon to deploy 3K troops within and to Europe in the first major movement of U.S. forces in Russia’s military standoff with Ukraine w/
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“I recognize the absurdity of so much wealth being concentrated in the hands of one person, and I believe the only responsible thing to do with a fortune this size is give it away—as thoughtfully and impactfully as possible,” Ms. French Gates wrote.
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why hasn't cancel culture come for this mean-spirited monster yet
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Groundhog Day 2022: Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, foreseeing six more weeks of winter wapo.st/3rl7C4b
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It’s been twenty years since Danny Pearl, a legendary WSJ reporter, was brutally killed while doing his job. RIP.
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On February 1, 2002, Daniel Pearl, an American-#Israeli journalist, was murdered by Islamic terrorists for being Jewish while pursuing a story in Pakistan.
Daniel Pearl's last words were: "I am Jewish."
We remember his legacy as we continue to speak out against #antisemitism.
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NSO Group sought access to the SS7 network in the United States and offered to pay cash. SS7 is a protocol that allows cell carriers around the world to route calls, but is also used for tracking and surveillance.
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Covid-19 has left the same proportion of the population dead—about 0.3%—as did World War II, and in less time.
As America approaches a million excess deaths during the pandemic, families and communities will feel the impact for years to come.
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Just some absolutely blistering quotes in this article.
“Wandel durch Handel (change through trade) was supposed to change Russia, but ultimately, it changed Germany,” Mr. Debski said. “Germany is now a moral leader of the free world, but with opt-outs on Russia and China.”
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"There is a sense that Germany is not only wavering, it’s actively taking steps to prevent help,” a senior U.S. diplomat said.
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"There is a sense that Germany is not only wavering, it’s actively taking steps to prevent help,” a senior U.S. diplomat said.
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New: The new head of the NSA’s Research Directorate's first interview. This little known research branch, the biggest in all American intelligence, is how the NSA looks into the future to shape and master both cutting-edge technology and a changing world.
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this is your regular reminder that nothing on the internet is ever truly free
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"Israelis’ feelings…changed when the software started being used against them,” said Moshe Raz, a member of liberal party Meretz, adding that there would likely be a hearing about the allegations in the Knesset.
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Subjected to U.S. sanctions under Taliban rule, Afghanistan faces humanitarian disaster, with 1 million children in danger of dying from malnutrition.
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An invasion "would likely succeed even without the help of cyberattacks. But Moscow’s consistent use of cyber-operations against Ukraine in recent years suggests that it is likely to attack across the full spectrum of military domains." via
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Covid vaccination + a booster reduces death by 99% and hospitalization by 97& across age groups. I know of no other medical intervention that has or exceeds such relative risk reductions
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How to reduce Covid hospitalizations by 97%?
Get vaccinated and boosted.
Latest @CDCgov data
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Age 65+ 98% reduction
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"Ethics and privacy experts contacted by POLITICO saw several potential problems with the arrangement."
Important story.
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A top suicide hotline is collecting data from people's darkest moments and sharing it with a for-profit company that is using the data to build and sell customer service software.
Our @POLITICO report on Crisis Text Line: politi.co/3o5MRYi
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NEW: A deep investigation into NSO, the notorious hacking firm, w/ for . Short thread on some revelations 1/
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My latest in on how the cyber part of Russia’s campaign against Ukraine might play out.
Appreciate early feedback from , and others that shall remain nameless
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"Sometimes justice is delivered through sweeping rulings from the Supreme Court. But it is also achieved, as Dr. Cahn demonstrated throughout his career, through the unglamorous but important work of taking on clients — regardless of their ability to pay."
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I learned so much from Joe during my time at Reuters. As generous a teammate as he is a talented reporter. Congrats on a great run at Reuters, Joe!
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Everybody: I am leaving Reuters after the most productive and satisfying decade of my career. I have been very lucky to work at such a decent, collegial and industrious place with wide reach and no bias. If you have appreciated my work, please read and/or RT this THREAD.
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Big email outage happening today at the State Department. Lots of diplomats locked out of their emails, getting wrong password notifications. Spokesman says "we believe there is a technical explanation for it," and no indication yet of "malicious" activity
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If the Biden administration is looking for concrete ways to reform the classification system, I recently outlined my recommendations for a new executive order in : 2/2
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Biden’s director of national intelligence raised concerns about the U.S. government’s approach to classifying vast amounts of information, arguing it harms national security and erodes public trust
Scoop from
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NEW: DNI Haines says failings in the intelligence community's classification regime "undermine our national security" and that the problem "erodes the basic trust that our citizens have in their government."
Remarkable statement from a U.S. spy chief.
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FBI connects the Iranian actors behind the 2020 elections Proud Boys incident - Emennet Pasargad (formerly known as Eeleyanet Gostar) - to the Yemen Cyber Army and espionage ops going back to 2018. They are IRGC contractors. 1/x ic3.gov/Media/News/202
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Just months ago I downloaded like every Neil Young album on Spotify and felt so lucky to be rediscovering his talent.
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It is unbelievable how many calls and emails I get from vendors who mistakenly believe I am the CISO or some such cyber professional for WSJ. And they are always shocked—shocked!—when I explain I am a reporter.
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