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Naikon APT group uses new Nebulae backdoor in attacks aimed at military orgs

Security Affairs

China-linked APT Naikon employed a new backdoor in multiple cyber-espionage operations targeting military organizations from Southeast Asia in the last 2 years. The Naikon APT group mainly focuses on high-profile orgs, including government entities and military orgs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Machete cyber-espionage group targets Latin America military

Security Affairs

Security experts from ESET uncovered a cyber-espionage group tracked as Machete that stole sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. Security experts from ESET reported that a cyberespionage group tracked as Machete has stolen sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. ” reads the analysis from ESET.

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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

They affect national security. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes. The thing is, that distinction between military and consumer products largely doesn't exist.

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MI5 chief warns of Chinese cyber espionage reached an unprecedented scale

Security Affairs

During a meeting of security chiefs of the Five Eyes alliance held in California, McCallum told BBC that the Chinese cyber espionage reached an epic scale. The BBC reported the case of an acquisition of a sensitive UK tech company involved in UK military supply chains. ” reported BBC.

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NATO Chief calls for a new strategic to address new challenges

Security Affairs

. “My thought is that the existing Strategic Concept, which we agreed in 2010, has served NATO well. Having said that, I think we all have to realise that since we agreed the Strategic Concept back in 2010, the world has fundamentally changed.” And it has actually served us well for many years. ” Stoltenberg added.

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British Court rejects the US’s request to extradite Julian Assange

Security Affairs

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has rejected the US government’s request to extradite him on charges related to illegally obtaining and sharing classified material about national security. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MY TAKE: DigiCert and Oracle partner to extend digital trust and scalable infrastructure globally

The Last Watchdog

Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. Cavanagh As a latecomer to the hyperscale data center market , Oracle focused on its heritage of helping large enterprise customers securely and efficiently run their mission critical systems and applications, Cavanagh told me. “We

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