Report: Dutch Spies Hacked Jared Kushner's iPhone, Watched Him Use Sleazy Middle Eastern Slush Fund

https://gizmodo.com/report-dutch-spies-hacked-jared-kushners-iphone-watched-him-use-sleazy-middle-eastern-slush-fund-2000829742

Problemerne med statens IT-beredskab er imidlertid ikke nye

Rigsrevisionen tidligere undersøgt, om myndighederne er i stand til at opretholde samfundskritiske funktioner ved større IT-nedbrud, data-tab og andre alvorlige hændelser

.. fra 2022 konkluderede Rigsrevisionen, at undersøgte myndigheder ikke havde sikret et tilfredsstillende IT-beredskab for nogen af de 13 udvalgte samfunds-kritiske it-systemer

.. op med en ny undersøgelse af 12 andre udvalgte systemer
https://www.berlingske.dk/danmark/it-sikkerhed-udfordret-minister-varsler-digital-genopretningsplan

🇺🇸 Pentagon har stille og roligt skabt en ny hemmelig enhed, der har til opgave at sabotere militære teknologi-programmer af udenlandske modstandere

Den nye enhed blev oprettet i april og er navngivet Technology Support Office

Ifølge Politico vil TSO fokusere på hemmelige operationer for at narre modstandere til at installere defekte komponenter, udføre afbrydelser i forsynings-kæden og lancere cyber-angreb og desinformations-operationer
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/22/technology-support-office-dod-tech-spyware-sabotage-01100327

EU 🇪🇺 iværksate en undersøgelse af Booking.com over dens manglende håndtering af fraudulent lister og phishing-svindel

Undersøgelsen kommer efter en bølge af rapporter fra Booking.com kunder

Virksomheden har undladt at adressere years-worth af kunde-klager om reservationer på ikke-eksisterende steder, vildledende indkvarterings-oplysninger eller impersonation svindel
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/da/ip_26_2223

Den malaysiske 🇲🇾 regering har forbudt regerings-arbejdere at bruge Googles Waze trafik navigations-app

Embedsmænd citerede nationale sikkerheds-problemer over appens bånd til Israel🇮🇱
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-bans-civil-servants-using-mapping-app-waze-citing-links-israel-2026-10-21/

Flere nyheder https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-supply-chain-attack-lets-ransomware-group-inside-40-shipping-companies/

🇺🇦💔 Zelensky: Bucha. This is genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people, tortured them. We found a grave where there were about five hundred people.

When we deoccupied these towns around Kyiv, hatred for “Russians” appeared. It was at this moment. Not even at the moment when they started a full-scale war.

People were running – they were shooting. They were just playing with people. That's slavery. So how can you listen to Putin after that? How can you forgive after that?

Since #PHP is at the top of peoples minds, a short diversion.

In the Before Times of 20+ years ago, I worked for a smallish tech company that did some of everything. One of the #consulting jobs we took on was to #audit a #codebase for a company that was buying another company - the application was the acquiree's crown jewels, and the purchaser wanted a good solid analysis of it.

It was in PHP. I was not looking forward to it. As a betting person you are unlikely to go wrong with "very #niche market-specific software application developed in-house by small company working in that space is likely to be pretty terribly #designed and #implemented", and most of the PHP I had looked at by that point was, well, bad.

And it absolutely was not. It was in the then-new PHP v.5. And it was cleanly designed, nicely modular, very #readable #code and well documented, good #development practices. Sure, there were some things in it that could be improved, mostly more efficient algorithms / data structures IIRC, but all software can be improved *somewhere*. The final report was fairly glowing about it.

Anyone who tells you all code written in $LANGUAGE is awful, or all #programmers who use it are idiots, is showing you their whole ass. Languages are #tools. Some are easier to use for certain purposes than others, but they're all useful for something. Don't be closed-minded.

#engineering #software #SoftwareEngineering #RightToolForTheRightJob #homily

“It’s a poor worksman who blames his tools” has always been complete nonsense. No-one complains about imperfect tools faster and louder than a master. A master will yank a cheap or damaged tool out of your hand and yell at you for not blaming it yet

Cheap, lousy tools come from middle managers who don’t know how to do your job. Blame the hell out of poor tools and those who demand you use them

Remember: "Saudi Crown Prince says Jared Kushner handed him US intelligence"

Jared Kushner asked for more intelligence documents than anyone else in the Trump White House - now we know why.

And of course it has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia giving Jared Kushner $2 billion dollars, when *their own financial advisers recommended against it*

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5575395/Saudi-crown-prince-brags-Jared-Kushner-handed-U-S-intelligence.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-11/how-did-jared-kushner-get-2-billion-from-the-saudis

Not sure it could be more brutal, the direct erasure of the natural world for the proprietary and digital. Not to mention done by a corporation in service to a foreign superpower.

Apparently another 150,000 more trees were felled at their Otanmäki site. Both for AI data-centers.

The wood from neither site can be sold, as they were cut down illegally, and to rub it in, Google stripped the top soil of both sites. Totally denuded the land.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

Et privat 🇨🇭 efterretnings-firma, for De Forenede Arabiske Emirater🇦🇪 , udarbejdede en database med tusindvis af #Facebook -brugere, der bor i 🇦🇪 - for at identificere, hvad firmaet beskrev som "hostile" individer under 'broader crackdown on political expression'

Oplysninger om databasen kommer fra et lækket arkiv fra Genève-baserede Alp Services der modtog €55,000

.. af Mediapart og leveret til rapporterings-konsortiet European 🇪🇺 Investigative Collaborations
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/uae-alp-services-facebook-crackdown

Until you’re agentic swarm can hack into the government and release the Epstein files, I will not be impressed

@NewsHund @servelan opening security holes is an effective way to transmit secret information to foreign intelligence, or to anyone else.

Jared Kushner Hit by Stunning Claim Russia Knows His Secrets

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushner-hit-by-stunning-claim-russia-knows-his-secrets

@NewsHund @servelan I believe he was vetted and rejected during trump's first term, and then trump overrode that rejection and forced his approval through.

@jamesmarshall @servelan https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/officials-rejected-jared-kushner-top-secret-security-clearance-were-overruled-n962221

En relativt ny ransomware gruppe n0n har en større forsynings-kæde angreb fra netværket af en maritim it-tjeneste-udbyder til 40 + havne-myndigheder, maritime og globale søfarts-selskaber

.. lækage site den 12. oktober, og deres endelige betalings-frist udløb en uge senere, den 19

Sikkerheds-firmaet CyDome siger, at ½ af de virksomheder er kendte kunder af CyberLogitec, et sydkoreansk 🇰🇷 selskab, der leverer it-platforme til den maritime sektor
https://cydome.io/n0n-cyber-extortion-incident-involving-38-maritime-companies-likely-traces-back-to-a-single-vendor/

New: Texas has suspended construction permits of 17 data center projects after 404 Media reported a group of Texans discovered the state had continued to issue construction permits related to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott calling for a pause in September https://www.404media.co/texas-commission-on-environmental-quality-portal-down/