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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. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.”

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Germany and the Netherlands agreded to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet

Security Affairs

The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands signed an agreement for the building of the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking).

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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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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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US Army stopped using floppy disks as storage for SACCS system that manages nuclear weapons arsenal

Security Affairs

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. Jason Rossi, commander of the Air Force’s 595th Strategic Communications Squadron.” ” One of the military working for Lt. .” ” states the report.

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Cyber is Cyber is Cyber

Lenny Zeltser

Computer security, perhaps? This might be because the industry continues to embrace the lexicon used in government and military circles, where cyber reigns supreme. If you’re in the business of safeguarding data and the systems that process it, what do you call your profession? Are you in cybersecurity?

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.