Andrea

@justaddnotes.bsky.social

Military veteran, linguist, and cybersecurity professional. Areas of focus: Advanced Persistent Threats, ransomware, disinformation, Artificial Intelligence, Language. Слава Україні, Героям слава! 🇺🇦💛💙

I watched the video and pretty much everyone is representing it pretty much accurately and I don't think you need to watch it if your takeaway is that a bunch of ICE guys were on top of a dude who they were beating and then one of them decided to shoot him at point blank range for no obvious reason

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Regarding recent news that Microsoft et al plan to *not* eliminate silly threat actor names, @ciaranm.bsky.social m.bsky.social and Jen Easterly weigh in on the silliness and call for a moratorium on ridiculous marketing names for state-sponsored Russian/Chinese/Iranian/NK hacker groups.

Call Them What They Are: Time to Fix Cyber Threat Actor Naming

The Microsoft-CrowdStrike partnership on cyber threat actor naming conventions is welcome, but more comprehensive reform is needed to serve defenders and the public.

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Jen Easterly speaks out on the cybersecurity industry’s silence as Trump goes after Krebs et al: “If we allow the quiet dismissal of dedicated public servants in our community to pass without comment — we’re not defending national security; we’re compromising it.” www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-...

Ex-CISA boss says Trump actions risk 'dangerously degrading' US cyber defenses

U.S. President Donald Trump's purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation's digital defenses at risk, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a post on Friday.

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At this point it's not even just that they're lying, it's that the lies are so insultingly obvious. This is up there with "no, the details of an imminent airstrike weren't classified" and "we have no way of getting abductees back from the guy we're paying to house them."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Tulsi Gabbard claims that intelligence professionals have told her that under Biden they were expected to spend half their day on "DEI work"

🚨 Erlang SSH RCE (CVE-2025-32433) is a significant supply chain risks to ICS and OT devices, particularly critical networking equipment like routers, switches, and smart sensors. The public availability of a POC makes this vulnerability especially concerning, as it is straightforward to exploit.

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My first blog with Proofpoint is live! And we love a good crossover. State-sponsored actors try their hand at ClickFix - the hottest thing in cybercrime. Meet the North Koreans, Iranians, and Russians who are upping their social engineering game www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/thre...

Around the World in 90 Days: State-Sponsored Actors Try ClickFix | Proofpoint US

Key Findings While primarily a technique affiliated with cybercriminal actors, Proofpoint researchers discovered state-sponsored actors in multiple campaigns using the ClickFix social

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Extensive & really concerning report from NPR here about DOGEs exfiltration of data at the Dept. of Labor. Within the activity were indications of suspicious activity & access attempts from Russian IPs. Overall things that should NOT be happening to US Labor related data www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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If you are National Guard or active duty military & you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, call the Gl Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487 There is support, you don't have to go through with it.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
PARTIES
8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for
Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States.
22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and
empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia
University Buddhist Association and led it for two years.
23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at
Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and
identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful
permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to
Palestine. Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles
regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi
appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and
kill his best friend in the West Bank.
27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University
Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose
views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that
more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding
through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his
speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a
peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all.
25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who
made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against
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antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator

It’s absolutely the case that actions Russia has taken against Ukraine have been wholly unprovoked. Russia has been interfering in Ukrainian politics since at least 2014, then they illegally annexed territory, then attempted to take more by force in 2020. Any rational person supports Ukraine here

Maria Popova@popovaprof.bsky.social · last yr.

Just to be clear: 1) Ru first attacked Ukraine in 2014 and the war raged throughout Trump’s first term and he didn’t stop Ru; 2) there’s one and only one way of “preventing” Ru’s 2022 invasion: Ukraine’s unconditional capitulation. He’s angry at Ukraine for refusing to surrender.

If the US government can pay a foreign power to cage its own citizens, then what weight has parchment and ink? What meaning remains in the Constitution written by men long dead?

This is so absurd. Anyone who understands genetic engineering knows that the dire wolves that were produced were not “resurrected” but are simply wolf hybrids with some dire wolf genes. I would love it if we could take animals off the endangered list… 🧵1/2 people.com/trump-admini...

After Dire Wolves Are Resurrected, Trump Administration Says U.S. Endangered Species List Should 'Go Extinct'

After biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said it successfully created three dire wolf puppies earlier this week, the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum shared his th...

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