“He wanted the digital revolution—like the world—to be innocent, when it had never been.”
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The Cult of Work Hazlift. From 2015. Nikhil: “I think we are at a crucial time that commenter aab articulates perfectly. The problem is that we have two parts of the left that can’t seem to talk to each other. Anyway I thought this article might be an interesting step in that direction.”
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Ars
Technica February 8,
2017
Two years
ago, researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab discovered their corporate
network was infected with malware that was unlike anything they had ever seen.
Virtually all of the malware resided solely in the memory of the compromised
computers, a feat that had allowed the infection to remain undetected for six
months or more. Kaspersky eventually unearthed evidence that Duqu 2.0, as the
never-before-seen malware was dubbed, was derived from Stuxnet, the highly
sophisticated computer worm reportedly created by the US and Israel to sabotage
Iran’s nuclear program. Now, fileless malware is going mainstream, as
financially motivated criminal hackers mimic their nation-sponsored
counterparts. According to research Kaspersky Lab plans to publish Wednesday, networks
belonging to at least 140 banks and other enterprises have been infected by
malware that relies on the same in-memory design to remain nearly invisible.
Because infections are so hard to spot, the actual number is likely much
higher. Another trait that makes the infections hard to detect is the use of
legitimate and widely used system administrative and security tools—including
PowerShell, Metasploit, and Mimikatz—to inject the malware into computer
memory
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The widespread debate about fake news and what to do about it exposes a large
gap in Australia’s regulatory and policy machinery, and points to a broader
issue around the lack of concentrated and deep digital policy and technical
capability in the Australian government. Tom Burton: fake news and Canberra’s alternative reality
The Cult of Work Hazlift. From 2015. Nikhil: “I think we are at a crucial time that commenter aab articulates perfectly. The problem is that we have two parts of the left that can’t seem to talk to each other. Anyway I thought this article might be an interesting step in that direction.”
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