Darren

Well I suppose I'd drop the angle of decapitation/ impact to the group, and more simply ask whether those people are leadership or not.

Do those handles given to Krebs match those of the suspected four core members?

so essentially is this a decapitation against leadership or another hoovering up of lower level members

I'm wondering if they are core scattered crew or part of the wider Com. John and others were in wired / axios / others last couple of weeks saying there's three or four core crew members.

Would *guess* Jubair is given his history.

Are these by chance the same or part of the same four people who make up the core scattered crew?

Krebs named them as Owen David Flowers (aka bo764 / Holy / Nazi)
and Thalha Jubair (aka Amtrak / Asyntax / Everlynn /Earth2Starr / Operator).

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Also Krebs as a DDoS bragging testbed 🤌😂 Brian really is a unique piece of cyber sec furniture.

everyone watching the Uber breach like 'a bird that's flown into the classroom'
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How an alleged Russian hacker slipped away Andrei Tarasov is an alleged malicious Russian hacker who was indicted on charges related to a massive malware distribution scheme. He was arrested in…

Russian man Andrei Tarasov was indicted on cybercrime charges related to the Angler exploit kit. He was arrested in Germany but slipped away to Russia — despite his anti-Russian views. Research by @intel471.bsky.social #infosec intel471.com/blog/how-an-...

The news media is crowded with people who aren’t here to newsgather. They make no research or investigative contributions; just personalities whose job is comparable to pumping out youtube reaction videos. They’re entertainers, not journalists, and they’re paid 5x what decent reporters pull in.

First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia

Here's the bit in nature written by academics who obviously had pet rocks as children rather than a cat or a dog, or dare I say it, a bird.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Or a Coelacanth, which faced with a life of drifting listlessly about in the cold depths, was content with what it saw in the mirror for the proceeding 400 million years.

Birds, who bested by a clam that dug too deep in the mud or a nut that proved too hard to crack, evolved a wardrobe of ridiculous beaks to solve their problems.

@robince.bsky.social
@profbriancox.bsky.social Some divers took a photo of a fish and wrote about it in Nature. It got me thinking about which you think is more evolutionarily interesting;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga...

IQ-anon is a classic

Grew some Scarlett Runner beans.

Duolingo used to link wrong answers to its user forums where often native speakers dived into the many nuances of language. It was *wonderful*.

It's since been replaced with an ad to sign up to its paid inferior AI.

Anyway, I'm sure its new 'ai-first' move to automate staff work will go well.

AFP wanted fingerprints of journalists behind ABC special forces investigation The raid on the ABC appears to be part of a new climate in which journalists and their sources of information are targeted and receive the sort of treatment previously reserved for criminals, writes J...

Australian governments absolutely loved going after the media and whistleblowers. This 2019 story from a raid on the public broadcaster.
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...

Wonder why they didn't grab him before he could make the pledge?

That is, we evolve into who knows what and have a deeper insight into the nature of the universe in ways we can't perceive now?
I've probably read too much sci-fi.

Loved the piece and loved your book. Fantastic work.

One question from this ignoramus that I can't shake: is there a chance that our understanding of the universe in the far future could fundamentally alter perhaps in part due to our species engineered evolution over very long timescales?

I'm utterly ignorant on these matters but am I right to interpret this as there was enough trust before LLMs that references were taken on face value?

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

@mattbevan.bsky.social are you even a popular podcaster if people aren't trying to Jan 6 your live show? I hope it has become the ABC's new line for having 'made it'.

Facebook scam reporting services going as strong as ever.

Ormandy really captured how everyone felt in this historic battle with antivirus endorsers.

x.com/taviso/statu...

Flaw in ESET security software used to spread malware from ToddyCat group Researchers said a vulnerability in software from security firm ESET was used to spread malware. The company has acknowledged the bug and patched it.

I miss these stories. Could make cracking headlines with them. Real pwnie award candidate material.
Wrote a lot of em sometime around 2010 though. Shocking vulns sometimes too. Guess AV did something to fix how they were built.

therecord.media/eset-softwar...

Flaw in ESET security software used to spread malware from ToddyCat group Researchers said a vulnerability in software from security firm ESET was used to spread malware. The company has acknowledged the bug and patched it.

Another antivirus-is-effective-in-the-same-way-a-lightbulb-is-that-sets-everything-on-fire-as-long-as-you-only-measure the-lumens moment
therecord.media/eset-softwar...