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🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇪🇵🇸 = ✅. But 🇷🇺 = ❌ Caffeinated Canadian, geek, likes bicycle rides, refuting antivaxxers/science deniers, fighting conspiracies/misinformation. Interests: Virology, Repro rights/Public Health, Geology, Tech, Social Sciences.
Leipzig, Germany: "According to a NATO spokesperson, a drone carrying explosives was recovered near a Ukrainian transport aircraft." It seems, in Peter R. Neumann's words, that "the drone war has reached Germany."
Flughafen Leipzig/Halle: Drohne auf Flughafen Leipzig hatte laut Polizei eine Sprengvorrichtung
Die am Flughafen Leipzig entdeckte Drohne war laut Landeskriminalamt mit einer Sprengvorrichtung versehen. Die Polizei ermittelt nun, für Passagiere besteht keine Gefahr.
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Folding like a cheap umbrella? The US has removed Iran-related sanctions, according to the US Treasury's website, Reuters reports.
I'm actually surprised there's not more of this happening. wonderfulengineering.com/thieves-are-...
Thieves Are Stealing Millions in Copper and Equipment From AI Data Center Construction Sites
Stock Image The rapid expansion of AI data centers across the United States is creating an unexpected security problem, with organized thieves increas
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Terrible night in Kyiv—30 explosions in 20 minutes The kremlin vampire murdered 17 civilians and injured 34 in his mass strike with 28 missiles—some with cluster munitions The targets were food warehouses, a shopping mall, a train station and post office tRump refuses to sell any more Patriots...
Armed Maidan: Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide@armedmaidan.bsky.social · last wk.5 of moscow's Shaheds had an unseasonably hot summer after meeting your named STING interceptors🐝 Well done, 1020th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment, for well-done Shaheds! You too can burn your message into crazy putler's junk $500 = strike video with your fire-breathing STING🔥
The Ro-Ro cargo ship NADEZHDA burns at sea off Russia’s port of Novorossiysk following today’s drone attack.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2d agoThe vessel attacked by drones today near Russia’s port of Novorossiysk has been identified as the Ro-Ro cargo ship NADEZHDA, IMO 7702657.
A Ukrainian Shahed-like drone flies close to the Ro-Ro cargo ship NADEZHDA, apparently inspecting the vessel shortly before the attack.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 4h agoThe attack on the Ro-Ro cargo ship NADEZHDA as it sailed towards Russia’s port of Novorossiysk, filmed by the vessel’s crew.
It is a heavy choice to make, in joining the Legion and helping Ukraine. But change doesn't happen on it's own and some of the most impactful changes, can come from Russian citizens. This can be translated, turn on closed captioning and in settings, Auto Translate into your language.
Я бросил всё в России и ушёл воевать за Украину | История бойца Легиона
YouTube video by Легион «Свобода России»
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The US military while conducting a GPS jamming exercise could have caused a civilian aircraft to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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Beacon CRM is the company that was hacked. The company has an "incident guidance" page that you probably wouldn't be able to find through a search engine, because the company added a "noindex" tag code to the page's code, preventing it from being indexed. www.beaconcrm.org/incident-gui...
@maxsec.bsky.social · 22h agoMassive CRM used by many UK charities hacked . @campuscodi.risky.biz @grahamcluley.com BBC News - English National Ballet suffers customer data hack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The morning coffee and joyful stories of Wildberries facilities turned into a pile of ash. 😁
WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 20h agoAbout 400 UAVs took off to bomb Russia. We're waiting for news about Wildberries in the morning.
Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv - 8 missiles reported incoming so far. Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missiles also said incoming. Explosions in Kyiv. More launches - now 10 missiles incoming.
💥 Explosions heard in Kyiv along with air raid sirens. Russia is attacking the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles.
Two dead from the US cyclospora outbreak, just in case you had any doubt how dangerous it is. There are now 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases across 45 states. By any standard this would be a scandal but it’s just another metaphor for life under Trump - killer food contaminated with human waste.
Two People Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak — TIME
Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, state health officials announced on Aug. 3. They are the first reported deaths from a record Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of pe...
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Ukraine has now disabled 40% of Russia’s fuel refining capabilities, Politico reports.
Swiss IT agency hacked, 200 accounts compromised, SharePoint vulns suspected The Federal Office for Information Technology and Communications (BIT) said specialists detected anomalies in on-premises Microsoft servers. The Swiss agency could not confirm exactly how the hackers got in.
Swiss IT agency hacked, 200 accounts compromised, SharePoint vulns suspected
The Federal Office for Information Technology and Communications (BIT) said specialists detected anomalies in on-premises Microsoft servers. The Swiss agency could not confirm exactly how the hackers got in.
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Monday's DDoS on ID-porten locked Norwegians out of prescriptions and health services, the fourth such attack in nine weeks. None has been claimed. We reviewed what we know, what we don't, and why the complete picture must be seen across borders: revontulet.co/insights/4ro...
Locked out: a summer of DDoS attacks against Norway — Revontulet
On the morning of Monday 3 August, pharmacists across Norway were struggling to pull up prescriptions, and people trying to reach Helsenorge, Altinn or their municipal services found that their logi...
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Bjørn Ihler@bjornih.bsky.social · 2d agoIt looks like the most critical digital ID systems in Norway - which people use to access public services, health services, financial aid etc have been under a massive DDoS attack for the past 23ish hours. Likely state backed. Something to keep an eye on. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Okld...
Russian UAV "Molniya" tried everything to shake STING off its tail – but the interceptor in the hands of a skilled 38th Air Defense Missile Regiment pilot was faster. Even the toughest targets don't get away from our drones.
Multiple WCK teams across Ukraine responded in several communities this weekend as families faced the aftermath of another wave of attacks. In Kyiv, overnight strikes caused widespread destruction across the city. (1/2)
Meanwhile, it was a nice morning in Russia. The WB warehouse there is on fire. Again.
Do the things that are important to you when the opportunity is there. Tell the people who matter to you that you love them. You never know when it may be your last chance
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
I know someone who left an abusive cop husband in the US about a decade ago. There was he'd literally try anything he had access to, in order to mess with her.
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d agoNew: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
Sigh. As the FT reports: “Apple has launched a new legal challenge against the UK’s latest attempt to create a ‘backdoor’ to access encrypted customer data…” 👏 lawful 👏 access 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 backdoor 👏
Apple launches legal challenge to UK attempt to access encrypted user data
iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to connect to cloud backups of British users
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"In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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How desperate is the US over Iran? A CENTCOM officer emailed military analysts to suggest "creative and unconventional" ways to pressure Iran to negotiate, CNN reports. Nothing says “superpower” like begging for ideas from randos.
It looks like the most critical digital ID systems in Norway - which people use to access public services, health services, financial aid etc have been under a massive DDoS attack for the past 23ish hours. Likely state backed. Something to keep an eye on. www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Okld...
Sikkerhetsekspert om angrepet i Norge: – Står øverst på listen for dem som vil angripe
I Digitaliseringsdirektoratets egen risikovurdering for 2025, ble det pekt på manglende evne til å kunne identifisere og oppdage avanserte digitale angrep.
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Space Caligula to assault moon with his rubbish on Wednesday.
Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 2d agoPart of a SpaceX rocket weighing 8,800 pounds is about to crash into the moon at 5,400 mph, releasing an amount of energy equivalent to about 3 tons of TNT. WOW! And, the event might be visible from the East Coast by telescope early Wednesday. More details: www.capitalweather.com/part-of-a-sp...
Btw, the US created the conditions that led to Ru invading Ukraine only in so far as it was overly accommodating and thus gave Ru the idea they can conquer Ukraine and the intl community would just sit and watch. Anyone arguing the US deliberately "provoked" Ru to invade doesn't understand the war.
