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Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

Security Affairs

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign

Security Affairs

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. . .

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. in which the travel records of military and civilian personnel – which included their personal information and credit card data – were compromised. Patches were rushed out , but many.

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New European Union Dual-Use Regulation Enters Into Force

Data Matters

Dual-use items are sensitive goods, services, software, and technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes. military end uses in an embargoed country (so called ‘military end use’). uses as parts or components of military items exported without authorization or in breach of an authorization.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. Operational Security is typically a military process. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. Supermicro has assembly facilities in California, the Netherlands, and Taiwan, but its motherboards—its core product—are nearly all manufactured by contractors in China. But the U.S. based firms. Even if the U.S.

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Supply-Chain Security

Schneier on Security

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. Even al-Qaeda was concerned; ten years ago, a sympathizer released the encryption software Mujahedeen Secrets , claimed to be free of Western influence and backdoors.