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Author Q&A: The ongoing role of fortified structures in military clashes — and cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

There’s no denying that castle walls play a prominent role in the histories of both military defense, going back thousands of years, and — as of the start of the current millennia — in cybersecurity. Betz You made an allusion to a modern military fortification with the Maginot Line.

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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet, and 100 hospitals in Romania go offline amid a major ransomware attack.

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Military Vets Share Lessons That Helped Them Build Infosec Startups

Dark Reading

Startup founders say serving in the military taught them how to defend against cyberattacks and how to build teams. These lessons are serving them well as they run their own companies.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Dispersive adapts WWII radio-signal masking tool to obfuscating network traffic

The Last Watchdog

military scattered radio-signals and added noise to radio transmissions — to prevent the jamming of torpedo controls. Decades later, the telecom industry figured out how to spread WiFi, GPS, BlueTooth and 5G signals over a wide bandwidth and then also added pseudo-random codes — to prevent tampering.

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NATO military command center should be fully operational in 2023

Security Affairs

The NATO military command center should be fully operational in 2023, every member states will contribute with its cyber capabilities to the military hub. NATO alliance is aware of growing threats in the cyberspace and the new NATO military command center aims to respond them. 31 at its military hub in Belgium.

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White hat hackers showed how to take over a European Space Agency satellite

Security Affairs

Credit: ESA – European Space Agency The offensive cybersecurity team at Thales demonstrated how to take control of the ESA satellite, the is considered the world’s first ethical satellite hacking exercise. Artist’s impression of OPS-SAT. The exercise aims at assessing the resilience of satellites to cyber attacks. .”