FISA 702 just came up in the threats hearing. Drink!
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"I cannot think of another arrangement like this that combines an illegal use of subpoenas with an inscrutable, private nonprofit just for the purposes of housing this information,” said of the ACLU on the program.
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Kevin Mandia said in an interview he was drawn to Google as a buyer due to a desire to better automate security and the need to secure cloud environments.
“I don’t look at this as selling my baby. I look at it as moving the mission forward,” he said.
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“APT 41 continues to pose a significant threat to public and private organizations alike around the world,” said Geoff Ackerman, principal threat analyst at Mandiant. “We have found them everywhere, and that is unnerving.”
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New: Hackers linked to Beijing have accessed computer systems in six U.S. state governments in a continuing espionage campaign that included the use of the widespread Log4J computer bug detected late last year, according to research from Mandiant.
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Wray was just asked about FBI's purchasing of NSO Group's Pegasus software at the threats hearing.
"The FBI has not and did not use the NSO products operationally in any investigation. I can confirm that we bought a limited license for testing and evaluation," Wray said.
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At threats hearing, FBI Director Wray says concerns about spillover Russian cyber attacks amid Ukraine War germinate from a history "of not being able to manage the effects" of operations.
Notes NotPetya was "one of the most destructive attacks in the history of the world."
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New: Hackers linked to Beijing have accessed computer systems in six U.S. state governments in a continuing espionage campaign that included the use of the widespread Log4J computer bug detected late last year, according to research from Mandiant.
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New: The White House modified guidance for the Pentagon and U.S. spy agencies on sending intelligence data to the Ukrainian government to clear the way of roadblocks to information sharing.
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The U.S. intelligence community's annual threats report discusses Chinese cyber capabilities at length and specifically mentions Beijing's interest in hacking journalists.
Context: wsj.com/articles/cyber
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This program collected data on all money-transfers above $500 that were sent either to or from:
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and anywhere else in the world.
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New: A law-enforcement arm of DHS participated in a secret bulk surveillance program that collected millions of records about certain money transfers, including data belonging to some Americans, without a warrant, @RonWyden says wsj.com/articles/secre
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TRAC has received federal funding, but until last month its existence was unknown to Congress.
TRAC's nongovernmental status “has the effect of shielding this tremendously concerning program from public scrutiny," at ACLU said.
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The history of this program dates back years and involves a nonprofit known as TRAC that has ties to the Arizona attorney general's office. TRAC operates as a sort of repository for law enforcement across the country to access money-transfer data.
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New: A law-enforcement arm of DHS participated in a secret bulk surveillance program that collected millions of records about certain money transfers, including data belonging to some Americans, without a warrant, says
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U.S.-based app Premise, which has some U.S. military contracts, hires gig-workers with smartphones in geopolitical hotspots to gather open-source information. That has caused some alarm in Ukraine.
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Outside Lviv station, which is thronging with exhausted refugees fleeing war in eastern Ukraine, an accomplished pianist is playing “What a Wonderful World.” It’s hauntingly beautiful.
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CNN’s stops her live report to help elderly civilians trying to flee Kyiv evacuate as Russian forces close in on the capital city.
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A friendship with "no limits" is showing its limits in real time, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues. We shed light on Chinese decision-making that led to Xi issuing the Feb. 4 solidarity statement with Putin. A costly decision for China.
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“I spend every night in the shelter, and on day seven of the war it turned out that every third person in my shelter is Jewish."
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A man walks a dog with a jacket reading "Putin is a dick" at a park while Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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Your regular reminder that amid the fog of ~cyber uncertainty~ there is a big industry with every incentive to convince you that armageddon is about to happen or is already underway but out of view. This is not to minimize actual impact in UKR or elsewhere—just a note of caution.
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“Every day brings the possibility that our words may be our final ones. So let them be a plea for support for a free Ukraine.”
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If the US estimate is accurate, the Russians are suffering on average 400 casualties per day (not counting POWs and wounded).
If this trend continues for a month, they will reach First Chechen War ('94-'96) level of casualties (~15k), which nearly brought down the Yeltsin gov
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One US official estimated that Russian losses on Monday (after 5 days) were 2,000. For comparison, Russia lost fewer than 100 soldiers during the 5-day Russo-Georgia War in 2008.
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I'm hearing from journalists who said they unwittingly clicked on some of the phishing links, which could potentially lead to account compromises. Great job, .
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Dear @LinkedIn: Thank you for forcing journalists to attend yet another unnecessary hourlong seminar just so we can use your platform to contact potential sources. The video is not working for many of us and the target-rich chatroom is being spammed endlessly with phishing links.
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Dear : Thank you for forcing journalists to attend yet another unnecessary hourlong seminar just so we can use your platform to contact potential sources. The video is not working for many of us and the target-rich chatroom is being spammed endlessly with phishing links.
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Narrator: was not, in fact, having so much fun on that other social media platform (allegedly for professionals) as he joined thousands of journalists who slowly died waiting for a livestream to buffer as they pondered what ill-fated decisions in life led them here.
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AMEX, Visa, and Mastercard now out of Russia.
Visa still everywhere you want to be.
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Ouch. This one will hurt. America Express suspends cooperation with its partners in the Russian Federation. twitter.com/EchoMskNews/st…
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President Biden did not mention cybersecurity once during the State of the Union address. Last year he referred to it as a "core national security challenge" facing the United States.
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Information warfare happening in real time: Ukraine has been warning all day that Russia would start spreading false messages that Ukraine would surrender, and just named a dozen telegram accounts it says are actually run by the GRU.
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Security Service of Ukraine: A number of telegram channels are coordinated by the 85th Main Center of the Special Service of The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
List of these channels t.me/SBUkr/3781 #StopPutin #StopWar
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Facebook said it has begun demoting Russian state-controlled media RT and Sputnik across its services, broadly limiting the visibility of that content for users around the world.
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With hindsight, a lot more analysis and attention to Russian logistics versus speculation on potential Russian cyberattacks in the run-up to the war seems to have been warranted.
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BREAKING-U.S. assesses that morale is flagging in some Russian units, and that some Russian units have surrendered without a fight in Ukraine, a senior US defense official says
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The psychological element of this cannot to be underestimated. Ukraine—Eastern and Southern one in particular—looks like Russia. People speak Russian. Babushka on the street looks like a soldier’s grandmother. Without proper indoctrination, it’s very demoralizing to fight there
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The Conti leaks offer everyone an unprecedented insight into the inner workings of a major cybercrime organization. This is the kind of stuff that almost never gets seen by anyone outside cybersecurity or law enforcement. Here's some highlights: 🧵
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The U.S. is in the process of expelling 12 Russian diplomats assigned to the United Nations in New York, alleging they are intelligence agents
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Nothing about this constitutes a “very active cyberwar.” What’s remarkable is how muted the cyber conflict has been, as we’re nowhere close to what people feared or expected. Calling it “cyberwar” only further obscures the low-level reality of what has transpired so far.
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Multiple Russian media websites were hacked earlier today... anti-Putin messages were displayed... amid a very active cyberwar
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