Germany Says Cyber Threat Greater Than Expected, More Firms Affected (reuters.com)

From a Reuters report, shared by a few readers on Twitter: Germany's BSI federal cyber agency said on Friday that the threat posed to German firms by recent cyber attacks launched via a Ukrainian auditing software was greater than expected, and some German firms had seen production halted for over a week. Analyses by computer experts showed that waves of attacks had been launched via software updates of the M.E.Doc accounting software since April, the BSI said in a statement.

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There's just so much bullshit anymore it's nearly impossible to accept anything as fact unless it's witnessed first hand.

Quite the opposite. What you witness first hand is a tiny sliver of information that you, as an involved observer, are likely to misinterpret or misunderstand; a mere anecdote that is unlikely to represent any large trend capable of enlightening you much about reality, especially in regard to societal issues. In fact, refusing information other than that directly seen is likely to turn you into an ignorant narrow-minded and yet easily-fooled individual. Ironically, it is for people like you that journalists now focus on serving short videos of “first-hand witness news” (really, unimportant anecdotes) rather than going into detailed, balanced, well-reasoned and well-contextualised explanations based on a large body of observations.

Anything any governmental body says is garbage, and anything the entertainment media says about it is even more garbage just decorated with spin.

Such generalisation and hyperbole is entirely gratuitous and deserves about as much scorn as you are displaying toward governmental institutions and the press at large.