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Socialite who charmed Nato staff in Naples was Russian spy, say investigators | Espionage | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo Aug. 29, 2022

Aug. 29, 2022

Database leaks e riconoscimento facciale come strumenti di controspionaggio. <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/socialite-who-charmed-nato-st…> A team of investigators claim to have unmasked a deep-cover spy from Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, who spent a decade posing as a Latin American jewellery designer and partied with Nato staff based in Naples. The investigators say the woman went by the name of Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera, and told people she met that she was the child of a German father and Peruvian mother, born in the city of Callao, Peru. In fact, she was a career GRU officer from Russia, according to research by Bellingcat in partnership with a number of media outlets including La Repubblica in Italy and Der Spiegel in Germany, and shared with the Guardian before publication. “Rivera” was what the intelligence community call an illegal, a deep-cover agent trained to pose as a foreigner. Moscow’s intelligence agencies have used illegals since the early Soviet period. Sometimes, they stay living in their fake identities for decades. Posing as “Rivera”, the illegal moved between Rome, Malta and Paris, eventually settling in Naples, home of Nato’s Allied Joint Force Command, around 2013. She set up a jewellery boutique called Serein and led an active social life. Her acquaintances said that by taking on the role of secretary at the Naples branch of the international Lions Club, she was able to befriend many Nato staff and other affiliates. One Nato employee told the investigators that he had a brief romantic relationship with “Rivera”. Traditionally, illegals have been extremely hard for counterintelligence agencies to find, but in a world of biometric data, facial recognition software and open source investigation possibilities, it has become harder for Russia to keep its illegals below the radar. Christo Grozev, Bellingcat’s CEO and lead investigator, said in an interview that he had first found the trail of a possible GRU illegal when he was looking at a leaked database of border crossings logged by Belarusian border guards and provided by a group of hackers in opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. Grozev searched for Russian passport numbers in ranges known to have been used by GRU operatives, and found numerous hits. Most had Russian names, but one stood out: Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera. Looking more closely at “Rivera”, Grozev found that she travelled on several Russian passports with serial numbers in a range used by other known GRU operatives, including an officer who had been indicted for the alleged novichok poisoning of the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev, and another GRU officer reportedly involved in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018. He also discovered that on 15 September 2018, “Rivera” bought a ticket from Naples to Moscow. The previous day, Bellingcat and its Russian investigative partner, the Insider, published an article on the two Salisbury poisoners, who travelled under the cover identities Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, noting irregularities in their passport data suggesting they had security services links. It seems “Rivera” was withdrawn by her bosses, who feared that other operatives with similar passport numbers could be compromised. She does not appear to have left Russia again. Two months after her sudden departure from Naples, she posted a Facebook status in Italian, apparently as a way of explaining her disappearance and silence. “It’s the truth I must finally reveal … Hair is growing now after chemo, very short but it’s there. I miss everything, but I’m trying to breathe,” she wrote. Some GRU illegals only travel abroad for quick, short-term missions and change identities regularly, while others like “Rivera” spend years inhabiting the same cover identity. In June, the Netherlands deported a man arriving on a Brazilian passport in the name of Viktor Muller Ferreira, accusing him of being a Russian illegal named Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov. He had apparently spent a decade preparing his identity, including stints studying in Ireland and the US, and was suspected of trying to infiltrate the international criminal court in The Hague. The unusual thing about “Rivera” is that she travelled on a Russian passport, when usually illegals disguise their links to Russia or the Soviet Union. It seems that an earlier attempt to pass off “Rivera” as a Peruvian citizen failed: an official Peruvian document from 2006 notes that her application for citizenship was rejected as fraudulent. Apparently, unfazed by the setback, the GRU then relaunched the “Kuhfeldt Rivera” identity with a Russian passport. This was a strange decision, but it is possible she had already made valuable contacts under that identity and did not want to lose them. Numerous people who had met “Kuhfeldt Rivera” said she told them her Peruvian mother had taken her to the Soviet Union in 1980 and left her there. She had apparently tried various routes to gain a western European passport over the years. Bellingcat said it had identified the real Russian woman behind the fake “Rivera” persona, based on information and photo matching from various databases and open source research. She did not reply to requests for comment from the Guardian.

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Monitora PA: Speciale Elezione 2022
by Giacomo Tesio Aug. 29, 2022

Aug. 29, 2022

Salve Nexa, giacché se ne parlava proprio in questi giorni, vi segnalo che abbiamo appena pubblicato il nostro "speciale elezioni", dopo aver chiesto a 60 partiti politici di interrompere i trasferimenti transfrontalieri di dati personali, avviati sistematicamente dai propri siti web. Dati personali estremamente sensibili, come sono le opinioni politiche. Dati personali trasferiti spesso ancora prima che il visitatore del sito esprima una qualche forma di consenso. Trasferimenti che gettano un ombra sulle imminenti elezioni. Chiunque vinca. Se qualcuno vincerà. Comunque trovate tutto sul sito di Monitora PA: nei prossimi giorni pubblicheremo anche eventuali risposte che i partiti dovessero inviarci https://monitora-pa.it/2022/08/28/Speciale_Elezioni_2022.html A presto! Giacomo

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“Addio curriculum. Grazie alla mia app e all'intelligenza artificiale troverete lavoro in 40 secondi”
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 26, 2022

Aug. 26, 2022

Auguro ogni bene ad ogni impresa, ma certe promesse mi lasciano perplesso e con molte domande Buona lettura dl https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/08/26/news/addio_curriculum_grazie_a… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Re: [nexa] nexa Digest, Vol 160, Issue 13
by maurizio lana Aug. 22, 2022

Aug. 22, 2022

Il 18/08/22 12:00, diego.latella(a)isti.cnr.it ha scritto: > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:21:25 +0200 > From: "Diego.Latella"<diego.latella(a)isti.cnr.it> > To: nexa<nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] TWP - Michigan plot to breach voting machines points > to a national pattern. > > Buona lettura > > Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern. > A state police inquiry found evidence of an election fraud conspiracy > that has echoes elsewhere in the country > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/michigan-voting-machine-… uno dei punti nodali dell'articolo è espresso qui, mi pare: > Election experts are worried that in some of these intrusions, voting > tabulators may have been compromised or the exposure of serial numbers > and other details about voting systems could make them more vulnerable > to fraud. la vecchia storia security through obscurity se hai decine di migliaia di macchine nel paese, sei appeso all'intelligenza e all'onestà di decine di migliaia di persone. ognuna di queste può essere ingannata o può aver bisogno urgente di qualche migliaio di soldi per pagare una cosa vitale. Maurizio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.change.org/p/ministero-degli-affari-esteri-cittadinanza-italian… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maurizio Lana Università del Piemonte Orientale Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli

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Le nuove tecnologie in ambito sanitario
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 22, 2022

Aug. 22, 2022

Mi pare non sia passato in lista. Offre uno spaccato, se pur con qualche mese alle spalle, di un settore così importante per la vita di tutti noi. Buona lettura dl https://www2.deloitte.com/it/it/pages/public-sector/articles/deloitte-outlo… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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linee guida Agid per gli attributi qualificati per Spid
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 19, 2022

Aug. 19, 2022

Una svolta che impegnerà non poco gli operatori e la pubblica amministrazione ma libera risorse nel lungo periodo e ci semplifica la vita. Insomma, mi pare una buona notizia, buona lettura dl https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/repository_files/llgg_attribute… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Le domande chiave per il nostro futuro? Ecco cos’ha risposto l’intelligenza artificiale GPT-3
by don Luca Peyron Aug. 18, 2022

Aug. 18, 2022

Un dialogo uomo macchina davvero interessante. Un gioco? Una profezia? Buona lettura dl https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/le-domande-chiave-per-il-nos… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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TWP - Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern.
by Diego.Latella Aug. 17, 2022

Aug. 17, 2022

Buona lettura Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern. A state police inquiry found evidence of an election fraud conspiracy that has echoes elsewhere in the country https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/michigan-voting-machine-… D -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax: +390506212040 =================== Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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"Microsoft data center guzzles scarce water supply amidst heatwave"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Aug. 15, 2022

Aug. 15, 2022

*Microsoft data center guzzles scarce water supply amidst heatwave** * /Dutch media report that a Microsoft data center in the province of North Holland consumes more water than initially indicated. At the same time, the country faces water scarcity amidst a heatwave.// / Geert van der Klugt August 11, 2022 The data center is located in the municipality of Hollandse Kroon. Local media report that the data center used 84 million litres (84,000 cubic meters) of cooling water last year. Microsoft and the municipality told residents that water consumption would be limited to 12 to 20 million litres. The stats are evident from classified information recently made public. 84,000 cubic meters is equal to 33 Olympic swimming pools. [...] continua qui: https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/85915/microsoft-data-center-guz…

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"PA e comunicazione social: il Comune di Arezzo chatta con i cittadini su WhatsApp" (su Agenda Digitale)
by Damiano Verzulli Aug. 14, 2022

Aug. 14, 2022

Ho appena ricevuto e letto questo interessante articolo. https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cittadinanza-digitale/pa-e-comunicazione-soci… Lo trovo "interessante", non perché descriva l'impiego di tecnologie innovative oppure citi un approccio di comunicazione, in ambito PA, particolarmente innovatore. Di fatto, se guardato asetticamente con gli occhi di un tecnologo, l'articolo non ha _NULLA_ di interessante. Ma se guardato con gli occhi di chi frequenta questa lista, ossia di qualcuno che ha contezza dei retroscena indotti dall'uso di certe tecnologie (mi riferisco a WhatsApp), specie se in ambito P.A., allora il discorso cambia. E cambia, perché rende evidente quella distanza siderale che esiste (...ed è in via di costante ampliamento) fra: * le necessita' di coloro che stanno sul campo (come coloro che, ad Arezzo, _HANNO_BISOGNO_ e _VOGLIONO_ risolvere i problemi di comunicazione che hanno con i loro cittadini) che elaborano ed implementano soluzioni che -- DAL LORO PUNTO DI VISTA -- risolvono egregiamente il (loro) problema; * la piena consapevolezza delle conseguenze dettate dall'uso degli strumenti tecnologici, specie (e soprattutto) in ambito P.A., anche (e soprattutto) in termini di aumento di "potere" e di "dominanza" da parte delle Big-Tech. Ora la domanda è: posto che a me, lo scenario tecnologico di Arezzo mi fa venire il bruciore allo stomaco, cosa avrebbero dovuto fare? Cosa avrebbero POTUTO fare? E perché non l'hanno fatto? È questa la discussione che trovo interessante.... perché temo che emergerà --ahimé-- che il caso di Arezzo è stato, di fatto, una scelta "obbligata", e che non sia possibile fare diversamente :-( Un saluto, DV P.S.: a scanso di equivoci, lascio agli atti degli archivi della mailing-list il fatto che non ho _NULLA_, assolutamente _NULLA_, contro i funzionari di Arezzo. Il punto della mia discussione vuole andare (molto) oltre la questione, quasi "spicciola", di Arezzo.... -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail:damiano@verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html

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