Tag: Hackers

Biden’s retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia are folly

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Biden’s retaliatory cyberattacks against Russia are folly

The planned response to the SolarWinds hack reflects a much deeper problem in the Washington establishment’s attitudes and policy: the belief that the United States can unilaterally set the rules of the international system, and yet set different rules for itself whenever it feels an urgent need to do so. This was never an approach that was going to be accepted by other powerful states. In the area of cybersecurity it makes even less sense, for the internet really is (in many bad ways, alas) a great leveler. To adapt a famous meme: on the internet nobody knows that you are the only superpower.

Social Media Microtargeting and the Evolving Ministry of Truth

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Lost in the conversation was the ability of regular people to use their own, individual critical thinking skills to sift through the content they may come across. For Dawson, Burns, and others in the growing cybersecurity industry, the “U.S. cognitive space” is a new theater of war that is not to be fought through education and open dialogue, but through hard and fast rules about what you can and cannot think about.

Social Media Microtargeting and the Evolving Ministry of Truth

Navalny, Bellingcat & the Fifth Column in the FSB

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Navalny and others like him are not politicians or fighters. They are puppets. We armed ourselves with evidence and made the first attempt to understand whose hands control these “dolls”. By the way, some of these arms are covered with the sleeves of the uniforms of the Russian Federal Security Service. So who is behind the “investigations” that were supposed to “shake Russia”? Whose agents were Navalny and his associates? The answers are in our investigation.

Navalny, Bellingcat & the Fifth Column in the FSB

Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

On Friday of last week, the Juneteenth holiday, a leak-focused activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets published a 269-gigabyte collection of police data that includes emails, audio, video, and intelligence documents, with more than a million files in total. DDOSecrets founder Emma Best tells WIRED that the hacked files came from Anonymous—or at least a source self-representing as part of that group, given that under Anonymous’ loose, leaderless structure anyone can declare themselves a member. Over the weekend, supporters of DDOSecrets, Anonymous, and protesters worldwide began digging through the files to pull out frank internal memos about police efforts to track the activities of protesters. The documents also reveal how law enforcement has described groups like the antifascist movement Antifa.

Yes, It Looks Like the US Government Coordinated the 2012 Anonymous China Hacks

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

On April 23, Mark Mazzetti reported in the New York Times that the FBI had used Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker it had in its clutches, to coordinate hacks in 2012 against Iran, Syria, Brazil, and Pakistan, and other targets. The actual hacks were carried about by an associate of Monsegur, Jeremy Hammond, who was a dupe in that he did not know that Monsegur was turning over the information and access he gleaned to the US government.

Yes, It Looks Like the US Government Coordinated the 2012 Anonymous China Hacks

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The Sabu/Jeremy Hammond case, or the FBI’s 2012 collaboration with Anonymous hackers in operations against Brazil (and other countries) was overshadowed by the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013. For Brazil this forgotten story was no less significant.

When the FBI sent Anonymous to hack Brazil