Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Ukraine's Security Service shows off what it says is a Russian bot farm managing 10,000 bots and 40,000 SIM cards






Speaking of hackers, here's the WaPo today:
The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency’s elite computer hackers “prioritized building cyber weapons at the expense of securing their own systems,” according to an internal report prepared for then-director Mike Pompeo as well as his deputy, Gina Haspel, now the current director.

The breach — allegedly by a CIA employee — was discovered a year after it happened, when the information was published by WikiLeaks, in March 2017.

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Absent WikiLeaks’s disclosure, the CIA might never have known the tools had been stolen, according to the report.

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[The former employee] has pleaded not guilty, and the task force findings have figured in his defense. His attorneys argued at a trial earlier this year that security on the computer network was so poor that any one of hundreds of employees or contractors may have had access to the same information [he] did.

A jury failed to reach a verdict in March on whether [the former employee] gave the tools to WikiLeaks. Prosecutors have said they intend to try [him] again this year.
Related, from last month, a podcast summarizing Amazon's ongoing legal battle to try win back from Microsoft the Pentagon's cloud computing contract.

Finally, not hacking:

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