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17 Apr, 5 tweets, 5 min read
Announcing: Mark Zuckerberg will join our new Sidechannel for a conversation with @CaseyNewton in the launch of our new Discord txt/audio chat forum. It's a measure of how respected Casey's Platormer publication is (platformer.news/publication) that Zuck wanted to join him for this. Image
I've heard Zuckerberg will be making news during discussion. Sidechannel, launched by Casey, I, and six other independent writers, is open to paid subscribers of my Zero Day publication (zetter.substack.com), Casey's Platformer or any of the other publications listed below
Other writers/pubs on SideChannel are:

Platformer @CaseyNewton
platformer.news

Galaxy Brain @cwarzel
warzel.substack.com/p/welcome-to-g…

Newcomer @EricNewcomer
newcomer.co

Hot Pod @nwquah
hotpodnews.com

Culture Study @annehelen
annehelen.substack.com
Deez Links @delia_cai
deezlinks.substack.com

Garbage Day @broderick
garbageday.email
We'll be bringing other guests to Sidechannel for live audio discussions, so stay tuned. If there's someone you'd like me to bring to discuss security/national security, let me know. I'll be sending invitations out tomorrow to paid subscribers of Zero Day to join Sidechannel

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16 Apr
Positive Technologies, the Russian security firm sanctioned this wk for allegedly helping Russian spies hack the US, has for yrs belonged to Microsoft's MAPP program, which gives security vendors advance access to info about vulns and proof-of-concept code zetter.substack.com/p/sanctioned-f…
Although the allegations against Positive Technologies cited by the Treasury Dept were vague, a little-seen report published by the Atlantic Council last month appears to provide much more detail about the activities that may have led to the sanctions against the company.
That report doesn't name Positive Technologies at all, instead it uses a code name - ENFER - to refer to a Russian security firm aiding Russian spies. ENFER has allegedly reversed/repurposed malicious code found on Russian gov networks to create exploits for other intrusions.
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15 Apr
Pfizer CEO said during panel today that people will have to get a third "booster" shot of the Covid vaccine 6-12 months after receiving the two initial shots, and then potentially everyone will have to be vaccinated again each year facebook.com/watch/live/?v=…
"There are vaccines that are like polio that one dose is enough... and there are vaccines like flu than you need every year," he said.

"The Covid virus looks more like the influenza virus than the polio virus."
Biden official said something similar this morning. "Dr David Kessler, the Biden administration's chief science officer of COVID response, said that Americans should expect to receive booster shots, especially as variant continue to spread."
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12 Apr
The blackout at Natanz nuclear facility in Iran was caused by explosives, not a cyberattack. "a large explosion that completely destroyed the independent—and heavily protected—internal power system that supplies the underground centrifuges nytimes.com/2021/04/11/wor…
"The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a classified Israeli operation, said that the explosion had dealt a severe blow to Iran’s ability to enrich uranium and that it could take at least nine months to restore Natanz’s production."
Clarification: the story says the blackout was caused by a large explosion. Theoretically such an explosion could be triggered by a cyberattack, depending on how it's done. But this sounds like it was physical sabotage rather than cyber. TBD
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11 Apr
Announcing the creation of Sidechannel, a new Discord channel that seven other writers and I will be launching soon for paid subscribers to our publications. You can join the discussion by subscribing to zetter.substack.com or any publication by one of the writers below.
Other writers/pubs on SideChannel are:

Platformer @CaseyNewton
platformer.news

Galaxy Brain @cwarzel
warzel.substack.com/p/welcome-to-g…

Newcomer @EricNewcomer
newcomer.co

Hot Pod @nwquah
hotpodnews.com

Culture Study @annehelen
annehelen.substack.com
Deez Links @delia_cai
deezlinks.substack.com

Garbage Day @broderick
garbageday.email
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1 Apr
CEO of the Associated Press says the international news service experienced unprecedented cyber "attacks" during the 2020 election. This included 10,000 daily phishing attempts and an average of 1.8 million web-based “attacks” per month. zetter.substack.com/p/ap-says-it-e…
They “came in withering numbers,” were sophisticated, and came from Pakistan, Taiwan and “most especially the Russian Federation” among others. In 2016, AP was hit mostly w/ DDoS attacks. In 2020 they were more sophisticated attempts to “find backdoors" in AP platforms/systems.
AP plays critical role in election reporting and is obvious target for anyone wanting to disrupt results/create confusion. AP feeds content to 12,000+ media outlets around world and counted/compiled votes in 7,000+ US elections in 2020; it's often first to call winner in races.
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1 Apr
Another water system hacked - this one in Kansas. Former employee charged w/ gaining remote access and performing activities "that shut down processes at the facility which affect the facility’s cleaning and disinfecting procedures," per indictment. justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/ind…
Wyatt Travnichek was employed by Ellsworth County Rural Water District (aka Post Rock Rural Water District) for 1 yr before resigning in Jan 2019. On March 27, 2019, Post Rock experienced an unauthorized remote intrusion resulting in the shut-down of the facility’s processes.
Post Rock Water District serves more than 1,500 retail customers and 10 wholesale customers over eight Kansas counties. Post Rock’s processes include cleaning and disinfecting customers’ drinking water. In shutting down the cleaning processes, it could have affected public health
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