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Key Developer of the Military Registration Registry Hacked

This is what the website of the key developer of the Military Registration Registry, the company Mikord, looked like on Friday.

An anonymous group of hackers contacted us, taking responsibility for the hack. They had been inside the system for several months and handed over a huge amount of materials related to the Registry: technical and financial documentation, source code. We passed all the documents to the journalists of "Important Stories", a major investigation will be published soon. Then the documents will be made publicly available.

Thanks to the hack, the destruction of data and the entire infrastructure, the development of the Registry has been disrupted for at least several months. For a few more months, this machine (30 million records!) will not be used to send people to kill and die.

We remind you that the Registry is not yet operating at full capacity — for example, automatic restrictions for failing to appear for summons do not work: bans on traveling abroad, driving, obtaining loans.

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in this. The resistance is working. No to war

Source: Human Rights Organization, Go by the Forest Telegram post

Part 2.

We are building a comprehensive archive and analysis project examining published documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Our methodology involves systematically reviewing each available document with particular attention to small details and information that has received little or no public attention since the initial 2013 disclosures. Throughout this process, we will publish posts highlighting interesting previously unreported findings. The main project will hopefully be complete and made public in mid-to-late 2026.

I'm gutted to hear this - I'm a big fan of Crucial memory and SSDs and all of my systems have at least one thing from them.

Micron will keep shipping Crucial products until the end of February 2026 and provide “continued warranty service and support.”

So only a few month left, plus however long they stay on retailers' shelves.

It was nice while it lasted I guess.

EDIT: archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20250929132913/https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/

The game is simple:

Two photos side by side
One's made by a human, one's made with AI
Pick the AI one
See if you're right (plus the source/prompt)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42302635

Archived

Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated the chair of the House China Select Committee in emails to people involved in ongoing U.S.-China trade policy negotiations as part of a spying campaign, a House panel said Monday.

Why it matters: The fraudulent emails were sent to a wide range of individuals, including those at U.S. government agencies, business groups, D.C. law firms and think tanks and at least one foreign government.

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• Hackers sent emails purportedly from Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) to key leaders ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials in Sweden this summer asking for input on draft legislation.
• However, the attached document, which was sent from a nongovernmental email address, was instead laced with spyware that would infect a victim's computer, according the Journal.
• The FBI and Capitol Police are both investigating the emails, and the malware in the emails has been traced back to a hacking group tied to Beijing's Ministry of State Security, per WSJ.

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