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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics

Security Affairs

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz

Security Affairs

Kraft Heinz is an American food company, it is one of the largest food and beverage manufacturers globally. ” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. .

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A job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence revealed a secret hacking squad

Security Affairs

The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. As a military unit it is irregular and unrecognisable.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. June’s figures bring the annual running total of security incidents to 729 and the total number of breached records to 3,947,030,094.

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The history of the central processing unit (CPU)

IBM Big Data Hub

The central processing unit (CPU) is the computer’s brain. It handles the assignment and processing of tasks, in addition to functions that make a computer run. There’s no way to overstate the importance of the CPU to computing. Virtually all computer systems contain, at the least, some type of basic CPU.

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On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter

John Battelle's Searchblog

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). The term is loaded, but it’s worth unpacking.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

That’s why the Aerospace Village at DEF CON exists, to expose various groups of people to each other, and to collectively start to work on solving these problems before they negatively impact our lives. Since it wasn’t directed at a specific airplane or specific part of an airplane, it didn’t rise to the level of the Jeep hack.