Matthijs R. Koot
@mrkoot
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IT, privacy, security, democracy. PhD. Bureau Veritas / @UvA_Amsterdam. PGP: 51F9 8FC9 C92A 1165 (https://t.co/ChpxzwV9PR). Mastodon: @[email protected]
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π¨ #ππ₯πππππ‘π π πππ’π₯ ππ«π£π’π¦π¨π₯π π¨ The "exclusive" video of Hamza Bin Laden circulating right now via @cyberpionier (Guido Blaauw), @TPASarah (Sarah Adams) and @TransatlanticIC (Guido and Sarah) is ππππ. Guido calls it a "virtual bomb" that "the world is not
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"FTM identified hundreds of soldiers from nations including Germany, UK & US on dating app Tinder. The personal details incl. home addresses of many soldiers can be found and their travel movements can be tracked via the app" (14 Dec 2024)
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An investigation by Follow the Money identified the Tinder accounts of hundreds of soldiers in Europe, including many Americans. Through their dating app profiles, FTM was able to find out personal...
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He is currently in Netherlands police custody and awaiting trial. The entry ban will be enacted from the date he has physically left, briefly put, the EU, which might not be until after he has served a sentence if convicted.
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Russian former ASML employee suspected of theft of trade secrets (6 December 2024) https://t.co/G7Jy23WC6a Re: Russian national German Germanovich Aksenov, born 22 October 1981. The Netherlands government issued a 20 year entry ban for him on 2 December 2024.
nos.nl
The man worked as an engineer at the chip manufacturer. He is suspected of stealing documents and is now in custody.
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The @FBI announce a $10 m award for information leading to the arrest of GRU Unit 29155 hackers who targeted Ukrainian gov't infrastructure at the start of the invasion. They are all familiar faces to us, will do a story on them in the next few days.
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We have released the 31 GB of North Korean leaked data from their cloud server. This data set mentioned in the 38north article. https://t.co/5A7US2xSnW
@38northnk @martyn_williams @nknewsorg @RecordedFuture @lorenzofb @josephfcox @vxunderground @BushidoToken @thegrugq
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This is allegedly threat actor USDoD.
π¨π¨π¨USDoD has allegedly had his identity doxed.
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Damn. This guy was a human rights activist and cofounder of a significant pro-democracy organization named for victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was also an MSS spy reporting to the PRC on the activities of those who joined as far back as at least 2006.
Federal Jury Convicts New York Resident of Acting as a Covert Chinese Agent Defendant Pretended to Be Opposed to the Chinese Government So He Could Get Close to Prominent Activists Seeking to Bring Democracy, Reform and Human Rights to China π: https://t.co/qZSu5aiSUE
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De Amerikaanse FBI heeft in samenwerking met de Nederlandse AIVD, de MIVD en de politie een Russisch desinformatienetwerk ontmanteld. Bijna 1000 nep-twitteraars zijn ontmaskerd. #Nieuwsuur
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New essay: ML seems to promise discovery without understanding, but this is fool's gold that has led to a reproducibility crisis in ML-based science. https://t.co/NQzW6b22bU (with @sayashk). In 2021 we compiled evidence that an error called leakage is pervasive in ML models
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Respectfully, your proposal does break encryption. I am happy to spend as much time as you need reviewing in as much detail as you are comfortable with exactly how it breaks encryption, and why this is so dangerous.
Let me clarify one thing about our draft law to detect online child sexual abuse #CSAM. Our proposal is not breaking encryption. Our proposal preserves privacy and any measures taken need to be in line with EU privacy laws.
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Invited speakers for @Ei_PSI Security in Times of Surveillance event at TU Eindhoven (NL) on Fri 31 May 2024: Wouter Bokslag (Midnight Blue) Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin) @xotoxot (RU) Carlo Meijer (Midnight Blue) @bpreneel1 (KU Leuven) More:
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Covert Connections: The LinkedIn Recruitment Ruse Targeting Defense Insiders (8 May 2024) https://t.co/mCrDgq505q Direct link to paper (.pdf, 24 pages): https://t.co/6qpvvJgh8A
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Russiaβs Declining Satellite Reconnaissance Capabilities and Its Implications for Security and International Stability (8 May 2024) https://t.co/AXVyNFKzZw By Elena Grossfeld (@kloosha), PhD candidate at KCL, in Int'l Journal of Intel & CounterIntel (@Intel_IJIC). Open Access.
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Example of a possible information/propaganda operation. This week a defector fled Poland for Belarus. The said person is a pretty high-rank judge. He had access to top secret information and inevitably holds sensitive knowledge about multiple matters. He was also close to
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BBC News - Polish security finds bugs in cabinet meeting room - BBC News https://t.co/F3PhANqxAH
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Bugging devices are removed from a room in the city of Katowice where ministers were due to meet.
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Commercial Enablers of Chinaβs Cyber-Intelligence and Information Operations (2024) https://t.co/ZmJJjCg8yy Published in Military Cyber Affairs, Vol. 7, Issue 1. Direct link to paper (0.5MB .pdf, 12 pages) https://t.co/yMUBrooFlh
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A joint investigation by Amnesty International and Haaretz has revealed that Indonesia, which has no diplomatic ties with Israel, imported Israeli spy tech. Then Singapore found out about it / @omerbenj
https://t.co/ZvalwxQUy0
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Global: A Web of Surveillance β Unraveling a Murky Network of Spyware Exports to Indonesia Jurre van Bergen (@DrWhax), Technologist at @Amnesty, said: https://t.co/LpRD1XjzrL
amnestyusa.org
An expansive range of highly invasive spyware and surveillance products are being imported and deployed in Indonesia.
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