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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on 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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North Korea ScarCruft APT used previously undetected Dolphin Backdoor against South Korea

Security Affairs

Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Dolphin abuses Google Drive cloud storage for Command & Control communication. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. ” reads the post published by ESET.

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2020 Predictions – Quantum knows what you did last summer

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Therefore, governments and organizations, such as NIST, are racing to become cryptographically quantum resilient. The US government will continue its National Quantum Initiative Act to accelerate quantum research and development for the economic and national security, which is funded with $1.275 billion from 2019 to 2023.

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Anatomy of a Quantum Attack

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Either exploited by military groups or criminal gangs, attacks on satellites, their systems, and base stations on Earth are seeing a steady uptick. Keeping space technology infrastructure and communications safe is a growing concern of the U.S. government. Legislation proposed by U.S. NATO, the U.S.

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INTERNET BLOCKING IN MYANMAR – SECRET BLOCK LIST AND NO MEANS TO APPEAL

Security Affairs

There are four operators in Myanmar: state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications ( MPT ) , Qatar based Ooredoo, military-aligned Mytel, and privately owned Telenor Myanmar. Telenor Myanmar believes in open communication and regrets if any inconvenience is caused to the customers”. Telenor Myanmar – an attempt to resistance.

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. These statistics indicate data breaches remain pervasive within the federal government, and that the current methods being used to secure agency data are not working as effectively as they could.

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How to Ensure Your Digital Security During the Rugby World Cup

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

First, it said that it would invest in cultivating military assets in the digital space, as reported by the Organization for World Peace. Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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