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  1. 1 hour ago

    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

    We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.
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    Although this particular campaign focused on defeating SMS 2FA, the same approach could likely be applied to grabbing Google Authenticator codes.

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    Here's what the hackers' infrastructure is actually doing when bypassing 2FA; driving the browser to certain URLs to request and feed tokens (this example is for Yahoo but Amnesty, which found the campaign, said it is the same for Gmail)

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    New: here's how hackers are defeating Gmail two-factor authentication at scale. Automating the process of sending a 2FA code to a target phone, phishing that, and passing it back to Google to login. This is within reach of lower level actors now.

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    Another great investigation by - Lethal “warning”: 2 Palestinian teens killed in Gaza by Israeli “warning missile," 14 July 2018

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    This is huge if true. WSJ says U.S. military is preparing to fully withdraw its forces from northeastern Syria.

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    2 hours ago

    Footage from a nearby CCTV camera is ‘mapped’ by onto the model of the building and its surroundings. Three groups of people are identified and located in digital space. Their positions are used synchronise this piece of video with a piece of aerial footage.

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    2 hours ago

    Two of the videos released by the captured the same strike, from two different angles. Identifying features are highlighted in red. But they presented it as two separate strikes, obscuring the first “non-lethal” warning strike, which killed the teenagers (📷 ).

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    took multiple video sources, including footage from YouTtube and from nearby CCTV cameras, and synchronised them to produce a timeline of the attack.

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    The two Palestinian teenagers, named Amir a-Nimrah and Luai Kahil, took this selfie as they sat on the rooftop. It would be the last picture of the boys alive; a short time later, an missile struck the roof of the building, killing both.

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    On 14 July 2018, 2 Palestinian teenagers were killed by an Israeli missile as they sat on the roof of the Katibah building in Gaza City. Subsequently, the manipulated evidence, as this excellent investigation by and shows.

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    Around a kilometer away, kids were recording a cooking video. It captures the sound of the four larger airstrikes, and can be synchronised with other open source information from Gaza City. Full / investigation available here:

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    Some years later a few of these howitzers re-appear in the battle for Sirte, spring 2016. Photographer Oded Berkowitz () made these pictures in . (Confirmed location: 31.209392, 16.604085)

    - Palmaria 155mm SPG inside what is now the ruins of
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    6 hours ago

    This is footage from clearly showing some destroyed Palmaria Howitzers.

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    6 hours ago

    update: In 1982 Libya bought 210 howitzers from Italian company Oto Melara (subsidiary of ). In 2004 a 160 of them were still in use.

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    9. In short, the Russian government & must either produce their “irrefutable evidence” for each of these accusations, or they must stop smearing an organisation which has saved thousands of lives in this horrific conflict. End.

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    Dec 18

    8. These accusations are designed to question the legitimacy of the WH as first responders: it undermines evidence the WH provide of war crimes and helps depict them as “legitimate targets”, enabling the use of force against a humanitarian group.

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    7. These accusations call into question the role of the “Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria”, a source of 8 out of 22 of the claims. Are they actually attempting reconciliation? Or are they acting as a laundering facility for disinformation?

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    6. This dearth of evidence provided with these accusations makes them difficult to debunk individually, but taken as a whole their absurdity shines through. For instance, the list of groups who are supposedly collaborating in this grand conspiracy is, quite frankly, laughable.

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    Dec 18

    5. (It should be noted that previously when the Russian MoD claimed to have “irrefutable evidence” they were talking about footage from a video game)

    The uses images from a computer game as evidence the US is working with ISIS
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