Catalin Cimpanu
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fredericl.bsky.social
Got a tip last night that GitHub is moving all of its infra over to Azure. Ideally within the next year. It's such a priority for the company, with its own data center resource-constrained, that it will delay feature development to get that done ASAP. thenewstack.io/github-will-...
GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development
GitHub is working on migrating all of its infrastructure to Azure, even though this means it'll have to delay some feature development.
thenewstack.io
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dinfontay.com
"Weiss is a shameless opportunist and troll whose 'expertise' [...] has largely involved trolling everyone left of center for engagement clicks with culture war dogshit and dangerously shoddy reporting, then crying like a full-diapered toddler when people criticize her for being generally terrible."
Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm
It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as …
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campuscodi.risky.biz
-Redis vulnerability impacts all versions released in the last 13 years
-Oracle zero-day used in recent extortion campaign
-New MSS front company discovered
-North Korean hackers have stolen $2 billion this year

Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS488/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
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campuscodi.risky.biz
-ICE to hire a social media investigations team
-ICE buys surveillance vans
-Pentagon cuts back cybersecurity training
-US thinking of reactivating anti-disinfo teams
-Netherlands asks citizens to update IoT devices
-Estonia trains Ukraine cyber specialists
-Russia temporarily blocks foreign SIMs
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julianferdinand.bsky.social
Recorded Future just published a report diving into the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA), which is almost certainly a front for China’s MSS, developing technologies to support intelligence and military missions. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...
BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS
Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...
www.recordedfuture.com
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agreenberg.bsky.social
A source shares some screenshots of the Lapsus ransomware gang celebrating the government shutdown as a disruption to the FBI investigations tracking them.

They also refer to Trump as "my king."
campuscodi.risky.biz
-ICE to hire a social media investigations team
-ICE buys surveillance vans
-Pentagon cuts back cybersecurity training
-US thinking of reactivating anti-disinfo teams
-Netherlands asks citizens to update IoT devices
-Estonia trains Ukraine cyber specialists
-Russia temporarily blocks foreign SIMs
campuscodi.risky.biz
-Medusa gang behind GoAnywhere attacks
-Abracadabra hacked for the third time
-DraftKings discloses another credential stuffing attack
-India's tax portal has a leak
-Google releases CodeMender
-EU companies sign open letter against Chat Control
-France investigates Apple over Siri recordings
campuscodi.risky.biz
-Redis vulnerability impacts all versions released in the last 13 years
-Oracle zero-day used in recent extortion campaign
-New MSS front company discovered
-North Korean hackers have stolen $2 billion this year

Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS488/
Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
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rvps2001.bsky.social
🇧🇪 One of Europe’s biggest air defense companies is warning that its top secret factories are being overflown by increasing numbers of drones, and it wants clear rules on how to jam or bring them down.

www.politico.eu/article/top-...

#Belgium
Top EU weapons firm warns of drone threat to production lines
Thales Belgium says its factory making 70 mm rockets is being buzzed by drones.
www.politico.eu
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bsky.realhackhistory.org
UK in particular seems to be a hotbed for young UK hackers attacking UK companies with poor opsec and getting picked up shortly after, though we will have to wait for trials to see the details.
campuscodi.risky.biz
New MSS front company just dropped
julianferdinand.bsky.social
Recorded Future just published a report diving into the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA), which is almost certainly a front for China’s MSS, developing technologies to support intelligence and military missions. Full report: www.recordedfuture.com/research/bie...
BIETA: A Technology Enablement Front for China's MSS
Discover how China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) almost certainly operates BIETA and its subsidiary CIII as public fronts for cyber-espionage, covert communications, and technology acquisition. C...
www.recordedfuture.com
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dconrad.bsky.social
He was 87 years old. They could have killed him in his bed and said he died in his sleep. The reason they put out obviously false stories like this is as a display of power. It says, not only can we have you killed, but we can just lie with impunity and everyone has to accept it.
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campuscodi.risky.biz
Per this report, the Iranian government managed to block or throttle a large number of censorship circumvention tools during its June internet shutdown, during the short war with Israel

miaan.org/report-on-ir...
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tl;dr: The US is treating Europe as its main adversary
dwj88.bsky.social
A secret meeting with X. A senior State Dept. advisor just out of college. The VP's speech in Munich. Pressure on European regulators.

What do they share? They're all part of an agenda to turn the transatlantic alliance into a far right international:

www.techpolicy.press/trumps-state...
Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press
Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.
www.techpolicy.press
campuscodi.risky.biz
There's never been a better year to be a North Korean crypto-hacker

www.elliptic.co/blog/north-k...
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zackwhittaker.com
SCOOP: India's income tax authority has fixed a major bug that was exposing taxpayers' sensitive data to any other signed-in user, according to the researchers who found it.

TechCrunch's @journalistjagmeet.com verified the data exposure by asking the researchers to check his own records.
Exclusive: Bug in India's income tax portal exposed taxpayers’ sensitive data
TechCrunch verified that the security bug in the Indian Income Tax Department's e-Filing portal exposed taxpayers' data to other users. The security researchers who found the flaw say the data leak is...
techcrunch.com
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shadowserver.bsky.social
Oracle E-Business Suite incidents: We have added CVE-2025-61882 scanning & reporting with 576 potential vulnerable IPs found on 2025-10-06. Top affected: USA

IP data in www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/n...

World map view of likely vulnerable instances: dashboard.shadowserver.org/statistics/c...