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If it’s “Russia” why are they investigating if the execs were in on it?

 “HAGENS BERMAN, NATIONAL TRIAL ATTORNEYS, Investigating SolarWinds (SWI) $285 Million Insider Stock Sales, Knowledge of Hack in Orion Products, Encourages SWI Investors with Losses to Contact Firm Now” https://t.co/n7AHw51r4m
SolarWinds report (Feb 2020): “2020 Key Findings
For the fifth year in a row, careless and untrained insiders are the leading source of security threats for public sector organizations”

https://t.co/TjgcuaBzUb
“‘Security is everyone’s job, but holding the team accountable is lacking. Until there are real individual accountability regimens in place, the network will remain at risk.’
- Division Chief, Federal Civilian”
Again insiders are the top threat, why ignoring in public rhetoric?

https://t.co/603WejHoYG
It doesn’t add up https://t.co/1MNMdHqyH6
Why would SolarWinds ignore this warning?

https://t.co/VVQ7TqlUzW
Important article

“The SolarWinds Perfect Storm: Default Password, Access Sales and More” https://t.co/a1xHU46nON via @threatpost
“Orion is a product with such market dominance that company CEO Kevin Thompson bragged on an October earnings call that “.....We manage everyone’s network gear.”
“In addition to its overall footprint, perhaps what made SolarWinds the most attractive vector for the attackers however is its sheer reach into customer networks.”
“access to the full network....Compromising SolarWinds makes sure an attacker does not have to worry about firewalls and other preventative security solutions.... It knows EVERYTHING on your network.”

- Marcus Hartwig, manager of security analytics, Vectra
“users of SolarWinds are IT/network admins with privileged access accounts”
“cybercriminals were spotted hawking access to SolarWinds’ infrastructure in underground forums, as far back as 2017”
“One of the access-dealers, they said, was the notorious Kazakh native known as ‘fxmsp’”
“German newspaper flagged the fact that SolarWinds has a support page advising users to disable antivirus scanning” (!) in Orion folders
“authorities have identified fxmsp as a 37-year-old Kazakhstan citizen named Andrey Turchin” https://t.co/TH0AnXfREl
“established backdoors to corporate networks and then sold them in cybercrime forums for thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars”
“Think of almost any kind of company and there’s a good chance a prolific, financially-motivated hacker known as Fxmsp has broken into it, or attempted to” https://t.co/WpOWvufeHF
“starts by scanning for open Remote Desktop Protocol ports and then brute-forcing their way into networks. They then steal administrative credentials and modify antivirus software settings to make sure their malware remains undetected.” https://t.co/TH0AnXfREl
“sold backdoor access to hundreds of corporate networks in 44 countries via Russian-language underground forums” https://t.co/pRU52RSMy1
https://t.co/6Ex9IpsZPu
Remember the Equifax hack

https://t.co/m7yWUOxHFH
“On March 7, 2017, the Apache Software Foundation announced that some versions of its Apache Struts software had a vulnerability that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on a targeted web application.”

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Lawyers - does Tanzin v. Tanvir set precedent for suing federal health officials for violating our rights?

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Clear communication means people can read or watch, check sources, and debate or criticize.

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SolarWinds follow up. Very good tweet explaining what happened.


Basically what this means is that SolarWinds itself was exploited. Someone posted an infected update as legitimate (digitally signed), leading customers to download a bad update.

“Multiple trojanized updates were digitally signed from March - May 2020 and posted to the SolarWinds updates website” https://t.co/8e3bMFWXYu


FireEye then explains that infected organizations were approached and exploited. This is a separate Step 2.

At this point, information is already going to “malicious domains” without extra intervention, after the malware does nothing for “up to two weeks”
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Sharing.


“What authority does POTUS have specifically over the Marines?”

“only branch of service that falls directly under exec command”

“Nati Sec Act of 1947, amended in 1952, specifies the duties of the USMC to include: ‘perform such other duties as the president may direct.’”


This is the QProof. Go back


10/31/2017, Q wrote:

“Why is ANTIFA allowed to operate?
Why hasn't the MB been classified as a terrorist org?
What happens if Soros funded operations get violent and engage in domestic terrorism?
What happens if mayors/ police comms/chiefs do not enforce the law?”

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How is it possible?
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New DHS center countering human trafficking https://t.co/mKU6XlEsO8 via @AddThis

Interagency Task Force - United States Department of State

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It ends now

You are heard

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Totalitarianism is best understood as the politicization of everything. Every facet of life is infused with political meaning... and subjected to political control. There is little room for privacy or individualism. Every word and deed is seen as a political action.

Totalitarianism does *not* require authoritarian government, although it usually leads to such. You can be totalitarian without having any real government power at all, enforcing your political will through mob actions and corporate power. Examples from recent history abound.

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I have written pieces of the process, but I hadn't actually written a thread or a blog post showcasing how all my blog posts fit with one another. I teach this process when I give workshops.

So here's what I do (now), and let me share a lesson from my past lives:

DO NOT SIT ON R&Rs.

I know, they're painful and scary and sometimes we don't know if our paper will get rejected in the end.

But remember, an R&R means an OPPORTUNITY to get your paper published.

Sitting on R&Rs, leaving them for later, and not prioritizing them has gotten me fewer publications. I know this for a fact. I am not ashamed of admitting that I have sometimes felt that I will not be capable of responding to multiple (often conflicting) comments.

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Sustained, frequent advice from professors who are senior to me (though I am senior myself now too) is always the same and on-point:

The goal is the R&R.

You're not getting a desk rejection.

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When I get the R&R (the "decision letter"), I make sure to calm down, because I am always afraid I'm going to get nasty comments. These have been (luckily) very rarely present in my latest submissions.
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