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Researchers identify a new malware family called GoScanSSH that avoids servers linked to government and military IP addresses. . Cloud Security Government Hacks Malware ARM GoScanSSH GoScanSSH Malware SSH SSH Servers x86 x86_64 MORE
Interesting commentary : The military is an impossible place for hackers thanks to antiquated career management, forced time away from technical positions, lack of mission, non-technical mid- and senior-level leadership, and staggering pay gaps, among other issues. MORE
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The post City of Pensacola hit by a cyberattack few days after military base shooting appeared first on Security Affairs. The city of Pensacola, Florida, had been hit by a cyberattack , just days after a Saudi officer killed three American sailors at the city’s naval base. MORE
The fitness app Polar Flow exposes the whereabouts of some of its high-profile users, including “spies” and those with sensitive positions in the military. Hacks Mobile Security Privacy Fitness tracker geolocation data IoT military personnel polar polar fitness Polar Flow spies MORE
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as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. military against foreign targets, Barr said the DOJ did so in this case because the accused “indiscriminately” targeted American civilians on a massive scale. The U.S. MORE
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Vitali Kremez, head of SentinelLabs, said in research released on Wednesday that he has been tracking an uptick in Gamaredon cyberattacks on Ukrainian military and security institutions that started in […]. MORE
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A Brigadier General in charge defending the accused at Guantanamo was arrested on the order of a military judge. Do military judges have more power than either they think they have or that they should? A new oxymoron. The General’s crime: allowing other civilian defense attorneys to resign after it was discovered the Government had bugged the room where the attorneys met with their clients. “Gitmo General Is Released,” The Wall Street Journal , November 4, 2017 A5. MORE
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Since these leaks have revealed that the US can hack into almost anything, the Chinese government's plan is to adopt a "security by obscurity" approach and run a custom operating system that will make it harder for foreign threat actors -- mainly the US -- to spy on Chinese military operations. MORE
military and other agencies for a decade and passing the gear off as American made MORE
The US military is reexamining security policies after fitness tracker data shared on social media revealed bases and patrol routes. Security MORE
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Defense Department Says No Data Was Compromised Australia reportedly took a sensitive military recruiting database offline for 10 days in February following concerns it may have been compromised. MORE
The travel reservation data, along with personal details, of hundreds of thousands was discovered in a database exposed online for all to see. Government Hacks Autoclerk database government data leaky database personal data travel agency data MORE
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. MORE
UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. Military documents belong to the US and UK military, experts noticed that the incident also impacted Doxzoo customers from India, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. MORE
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The United States Department of Justice charged 4 Chinese military hackers with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax. The four members of the Chinese military unit are Wu Zhiyong (???), were members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. MORE
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It is not often that I hear details about the cyber ops capabilities of the USA or UK discussed at the cybersecurity conferences I attend. Related: We’re in the golden age of cyber spying Despite the hush-hush nature of Western cyber ops, it is axiomatic in technology and intelligence circles that the USA and UK possess deep hacking and digital spying expertise – capabilities which we regularly deploy to optimize our respective positions in global affairs. MORE
Feds have charged four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in connection with the infamous 2017 Equifax breach. Breach Government apache struts flaw breach china hacks Chinese people's liberation army Chinese PLA data breach Equifax Equifax breach hack Hackers personal data MORE
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The Russian military is in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Linux distribution Astra Linux. The post Russian military plans to replace Windows with Astra Linux appeared first on Security Affairs. MORE
Watchdog Agency: Problems Put Patient Data at Risk Some military health facilities haven't consistently implemented security controls, putting patient data at risk, according to a new watchdog agency report. MORE
The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). “The name of this new Dutch-German military internet is the Tactical Edge Networking, or TEN, for short.” MORE
Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. in #Turkey where social media have been blocked for six hours after a military incident in #Idlib , Syria. MORE
Over this weekend, someone realized that it could be used to locate secret military bases: just look for repeated fitness activity in the middle of nowhere. datacollection geolocation military secrecy MORE
A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. The post A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors appeared first on Security Affairs. MORE
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military and other agencies for a decade and passing the gear off as American made
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Since these leaks have revealed that the US can hack into almost anything, the Chinese government's plan is to adopt a "security by obscurity" approach and run a custom operating system that will make it harder for foreign threat actors -- mainly the US -- to spy on Chinese military operations.
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Interesting commentary : The military is an impossible place for hackers thanks to antiquated career management, forced time away from technical positions, lack of mission, non-technical mid- and senior-level leadership, and staggering pay gaps, among other issues.
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The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). “The name of this new Dutch-German military internet is the Tactical Edge Networking, or TEN, for short.”
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“The data Our team viewed highly sensitive data exposing the personal details of government and military personnel, and their travel arrangements to locations around the world, both past and future.” “The greatest risk posed by this leak was to the US government and military.
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It is not often that I hear details about the cyber ops capabilities of the USA or UK discussed at the cybersecurity conferences I attend. Related: We’re in the golden age of cyber spying Despite the hush-hush nature of Western cyber ops, it is axiomatic in technology and intelligence circles that the USA and UK possess deep hacking and digital spying expertise – capabilities which we regularly deploy to optimize our respective positions in global affairs.
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