CyberWar I

[rcjordan]

UK: Ofcom has revoked RT's UK broadcasting licence with immediate effect

[rcjordan]

A couple of days ago, these photos of hidden UKr military vehicles were circulating on /r.  Not smart (or intentional). Cyberwar became real war in this instance.

TikToker Filmed Ukraine Military Near Mall That Russia Later Bombed
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktoker-arrested-filmed-ukraine-military-near-mall-later-bombed-2022-3

[littleman]

Yeah, saw that.  If it were intentional, posting it on Reddit would be a way to get it out there while staying anonymous.

Arnold Schwarzenegger video and Russia's response has been interesting to watch.

[rcjordan]

'We want them to go to the Stone Age': Ukrainian coders are splitting their time between work and cyber warfare

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/ukrainian-coders-splitting-their-time-between-day-job-and-cyberwar.html

[ergophobe]

>> Russia's response

"Schwarzenegger twice traveled to Iraq to support the American troops and never tried to tell the Iraqi people why they're being destroyed."

This is the problem with being a pot.

[rcjordan]

US Air Force establishes new information warfare detachment
https://www.airforcetimes.com/information-warfare/2022/03/25/us-air-force-establishes-new-information-warfare-detachment/

[rcjordan]

Russia Demands Wikipedia Take Down Information About Ukraine War (forbes.com)

[ergophobe]

Cutting through the fog of war: how fact-checkers from 70 countries are fighting misinformation on Ukraine
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/cutting-through-fog-war-how-fact-checkers-70-countries-are-fighting-misinformation-ukraine

Backstory about fact-checking site https://ukrainefacts.org/

[littleman]

US disrupts global 'botnet' controlled by Russian military intelligence, DoJ says

Intel Joins 600 Companies Leaving Russia Over War in Ukraine

Ukraine Now Using Over 10,000 Starlink Units to Keep Country Online

[rcjordan]

A Russian debt default looks almost inevitable | The Economist
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/04/06/a-russian-debt-default-looks-almost-inevitable

[rcjordan]

Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt, says S&P  (edition.cnn.com)

[littleman]

Moscow escalates propaganda in the U.S. as Putin's war in Ukraine drags on

The Kremlin cultivated a worldwide network of proxy outlets and social media bots to spread its message, stir internal discord in the West and undermine democratic institutions, U.S. authorities and cybersecurity professionals said.

"They're really good at this," said Howard Stoffer, a scholar of national security and international affairs at the University of New Haven. "They've developed a very skilled way of getting false information into the narrative, and that then becomes mixed in with the real information, and people don't know how to sort it out."

[littleman]

Google Maps Removes Blurring For Russia's Military Sites

Google Maps made Russia's strategic facilities visible to users Monday, revealing the details of the country's military infrastructure.

Searches on Google Maps showed newly accessible images of military bases, intercontinental ballistic missiles launch pads, naval facilities and key command posts all across Russia.

"Now everyone can see [Russian military infrastructure] with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel," tweeted the Ukrainian armed forces.

Some of the newly-available images include the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, a nuclear weapons store near Murmansk, submarines in the Far East peninsula of Kamchatka, and a military airbase in the Western city of Kursk, just 150 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.

[ergophobe]

Note that Google admits the images are real, but says they made no change to their blurring since the Ukraine War and these images have been available for a long time.

[rcjordan]

A top Pentagon official said SpaceX Starlink rapidly fought off a Russian jamming attack in Ukraine (businessinsider.com)