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Quantum sensors can be used in medical technologies, navigation systems, and more, but they're too expensive for most people. That's where the Uncut Gem open source project comes in.
Meta is giving Instagram the “landlord special” right now:
New from me: North Korea's IT scammers are estimated to make at least $250 million per year by obtaining fraudulent work at companies.
A new cache of data—emails, spreadsheets, Slack messages—reveals how meticulously they plan and track job applications, earnings, and day-to-day work life
Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.
Researchers at Defcon just showed they can crack the Securam ProLogic locks used on high-security safes to protect guns, cash, and narcotics in pharmacies.
When they told Securam last year, it sent them legal threats—and didn't fix the flaws.
Security researchers found two techniques to crack at least eight brands of electronic safes—used to secure everything from guns to narcotics—that are sold with Securam Prologic locks.
Thanks Andy
"One suspected IT worker Gordenker has tracked was spotted using 119 identities.
“He Googles Japanese name generators—spelled wrong of course—and then over the course of about four hours, just fills out spreadsheets just full of names and potential places [to target].”"
As well as listing possible real-world names, a spreadsheet also lists the "ownership" of the IT worker team as: “Ryonbong”
That's likely referring to defense company Korea Ryonbong General Corporation, which has been linked to North Korea's nuclear and weapons programs for years
![Another spreadsheet also lists members as being part of a “unit” called “KUT,” a potential abbreviation of North Korea’s Kim Chaek University of Technology, which has been cited in US government warnings about DPRK-linked IT workers. One column in the spreadsheet also lists “ownership” as “Ryonbong,” likely referring to defense company Korea Ryonbong General Corporation, which has been sanctioned by the US since 2005 and UN since 2009. “The vast majority of them [IT workers] are subordinate to and working on behalf of entities directly involved in the DPRK’s UN-prohibited WMD and ballistic missile programs, as well as its advanced conventional weapons development and trade sectors,” the US Treasury Department said in a May 2022 report.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:5jskd23hpbyfv4hrjrwpjh6j/bafkreifivkcakz5qud5lt3sbmag47yrzucwlrjqr634yv6dk5kgvetu7gu@jpeg)
One spreadsheet, includes potential real-world names of IT workers.
Alongside each name is the make and models computer they allegedly have, as well as monitors, hard drives, and serial numbers
The “master boss” is apparently using a 34-inch monitor and two 500GB hard drives.
New from me: North Korea's IT scammers are estimated to make at least $250 million per year by obtaining fraudulent work at companies.
A new cache of data—emails, spreadsheets, Slack messages—reveals how meticulously they plan and track job applications, earnings, and day-to-day work life
Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.
The story of the high-stakes race to escape Trump's tariffs, complete with airport logjams, bidding wars for private planes, and one snapped knee ligament:
When US president Donald Trump announced sweeping tariff hikes in April, he set in motion a seven-day rush to bring goods into the country. Bitcoin miners elbowed their way to the front of the queue.
