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State-Sponsored Russian Hackers Actively Seeking To Hijack Essential Internet Hardware, US and UK Intelligence Agencies Say (bbc.com)
State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say. BBC reports: The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security issued a joint alert warning of a global campaign. The alert details methods used to take over essential network hardware. The attacks could be an attempt by Russia to gain a foothold for use in a future offensive, it said. "Russia is our most capable hostile adversary in cyber-space, so dealing with their attacks is a major priority for the National Cyber Security Centre and our US allies," said Ciaran Martin, head of the NCSC in a statement. The alert said attacks were aimed at routers and switches that directed traffic around the net. Compromised devices were used to look at data passing through them, so Russia could scoop up valuable intellectual property, business information and other intelligence.
We need moose and squirrel to thwart them.
I mean, who enjoys competition in their core business?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...every country's spy agencies are trying to suborn every other country's switching gear.
Are we back to the "exceptionalism" or "world police" nobnsense whereby it's ok ok if we do it to them, but not vice-versa, because we're the good guys? Every country's spy agencies think they're the good guys.
'nobnsense" is rubbish stated by one of the elite :)
Somewhat we are missing half (or maybe far more than half) of the story, the part of "we do". Most people not even know that they don't know.
And make them pay for it!
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Amid all the snarky comments about how Russia's encroaching on the U.S. and U.K.'s state cyber hacking business, Russia does seem more dark and foreboding than anytime post Cold War- and Perestroika/Glasnost.
It always seemed to me the U.S. and its NATO allies lost an enormous opportunity to reach out to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union to help them economically and socially embrace the West's principals. It would have been to our mutual advantage. Instead, it felt like we wasted that opportunity gloating over the USSR's demise, and secretly cheering on the corruption that took hold.
With Putin cemented in power, it feels like we've been transported back 30 years.
Write laws that prevent hardware manufacturers from putting security patches behind paid fees. In the enterprise space, this is far too common, under the guise of "service contracts" and is fucking ridiculous. Its just a way for large companies to milk more money from other large companies, and those smaller companies that cannot always afford to pay continual service contracts are the ones getting fucked over and exploited because of things like this. Seriously, it is sad that there is an actual community dedicated to pirating and distributing security patches from major enterprise hardware manufacturers.
Well, the original oligarchs got their starting capital through the inevitable corruption of the communist state... it's really a multi-factor disease. The only feet at which the blame can be firmly placed is the oligarchs themselves, and they don't care about blame one bit.
Someone had to do it.
We already had a WWIII. It was called the Cold War.
Boy, do you have a nasty surprise coming!
The Cold War was worrying.
WWIII will *melt* you and set you on fire.
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
"Russia is our most capable hostile adversary in cyber-space, so dealing with their attacks is a major priority for the National Cyber Security Centre and our US allies," said Ciaran Martin, head of the NCSC
Ciaran seems to have forgotten the tens of thousands of US trained crackers in the PRC
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We already had a WWIII. It was called the Cold War.
Boy, do you have a nasty surprise coming!
The Cold War was worrying.
WWIII will *melt* you and set you on fire.
I always figured that the cold war was just a continuation of WW2.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.