Russian Info, Cyber and Disinformation (July 2017 to end '17)

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.@InVID_EU releases its browser extension for verifying images, videos on the web, Insta, FB, YT, Twitter & others
https://goo.gl/Fo8i73

Full Fact has been awarded $500,000 to build two world-leading automated factchecking tools
https://fullfact.org/blog/2017/jun/a...-factchecking/

FB no longer lets you edit headline or pic in link preview before sharing. Feature was being abused to post misinfo:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog...-Link-Previews …

Internal docs shed light on algorithms Facebook’s censors use to differentiate #HateSpeech & political expression
https://www.propublica.org/article/f...ampaign=buffer

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Useful analyses on Petya, the camouflaged wiper targeting Ukraine

https://tisiphone.net/2017/06/28/why...uld-worry-too/ … https://medium.com/@thegrugq/pnyetya...47c-1498684536 … https://securelist.com/expetrpetyano...somware/78902/ …

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NEW: Despite hacking charges, U.S. tech industry fought to keep ties to Russia spy service
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN19L10I

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Kaspersky Chief Says Willing To Allow U.S. Officials To Examine Products' Source Code
https://www.rferl.org/a/kaspersky-la.../28591824.html …

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Kaspersky Chief Says Willing To Allow U.S. Officials To Examine Products' Source Code
https://www.rferl.org/a/kaspersky-la.../28591824.html …

what many do not understand about IT security and hacking and or malware attacks...they are designed usually to exploit weaknesses in the coding of a software product.....

In millions of lines of coding there is always a deficient line or two that allow exploitations against those specific code weaknesses....

This also goes for anti viral software.....REMEMBER when the latest Russian cyber attack on Ukraine hit...ONLY 16 anti viral products actually detected it out of a tested leading 25 AV products......

THIS goes also for Kaspersky.....ALL software has back doors...and I literally mean ALL....that is what hackers are always looking for to include nation state security services....

THIS response by Russia concerning Kaspersky is extremely interesting as they have never responded in this way if for say Rosneft or Gazprom loses a deal...........

REMEMBER in the Kaspersky cyber lab there are FSB liaison officers..one was recently arrested for allegedly spying for the US.....AND Kaspersky has all the end user individual computer data as it provides support for those legally purchased copes of their software.

Russia Threatens Retaliation If Pentagon Bans Kaspersky Software

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...tware-j4k2inwq

Any “unilateral political sanctions” by the U.S. may prompt a response from Russia, whose government systems use “a huge proportion of American software and hardware solutions in the IT sphere, even in very sensitive areas,” Nikiforov said in an interview on Friday. He declined to identify U.S. software products that may be affected by any reciprocal sanctions.

REMEMBER Russia has forced all US IT companies to provide them all backdoors and source coding in order to do business in Russia...WHICH they all complied with including say Cisco and IBM....

So when the US does he same the Russians flip out.....WHY......

Article on this was previously posted here...

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Core element of Russian non linear warfare.....Russian doctrine from 2014...

The first and second phases consist of non-military asymmetric warfare. They include information warfare, psychological, ideological, diplomatic, and economic measures, but also special operations conducted to mislead political and military leaders. Coordinated measures are carried out by diplomatic channels, media, top government and military agencies; they include leaking false data, orders, directives, and instructions. The third phase’s objective is to consolidate the first two, by intimidating, deceiving, or bribing government and military officers, with the objective of making them abandon their duties.

Taken from George Kennan 1948....

Political warfare is the logical application of Clausewitz's doctrine in time of peace. In broadest definition,
political warfare is the employment of all the means at a nation's command, short of war, to achieve its national
objectives. Such operations are both overt and covert. They range from such overt actions as political alliances, economic measures (as ERP--the Marshall Plan), and "white" propaganda to such covert operations as clandestine support of "friendly" foreign elements, "black" psychological warfare and even encouragement of underground resistance in hostile states.

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Putin propagandists pick up ex-Pentagon PSYOPpers
by Dr Waller
February 14, 2016

http://acmeofskill.com/2016/02/putin...gon-psyoppers/

Zlatko Kovach is one of them. Just blocks from the White House, the 48-year-old editor runs the Washington office of Sputnik, which styles itself as a straight news service that aspires to compete with the Associated Press and Reuters. Three of Kovach’s fellow ex-Pentagon contract workers joined him. Two have moved on, but Sputnik is actively recruiting others.
Kovach, a naturalized American citizen, doesn’t see his move as unpatriotic but rather as economically justified. “Despite the big superpower relations, the media has developed in such a way as that’s the nature of the market,” he said. “It isn’t harming the U.S.”
Sputnik is part of a news and information outlet known in the United States as RT, the initials of its parent entity, Russia Today, which operates under the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media in Moscow. With State Department approval, RT opened the Washington office of Sputnik last year just as civilian contractors who shaped U.S. military messaging overseas were put out of work when Congress shut down most of a $22 million program.
They practiced what used to be called psychological operations, or PSYOP, a name that was changed to something more benign-sounding in the Pentagon’s alphabet soup of acronyms: MISO, for “military information support operations.”

NOTE...Sputnik and Russia today have yearly budgets in excess of 1.5B USDs and are hard core Russian government 400% owned propaganda media outlets in over 128 countries....

Sputnik just purchased a former Blue Grass radio station in DC....

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Gitmo detainees watch Russian propaganda, courtesy of the US military.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/gitmo-d...om-us-military …