China compromised GOP emails ahead of Republican convention • The Register - Notified in July of 2024, the Republic leadership opted to not notify the FBI or seek their assistance.
Hegseth orders suspension of Pentagon’s offensive cyberoperations against Russia | AP News - Hegseth can stop Pentagon, but not DHS:CISA or the CIA.
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case…As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes:
I have had a continuously growing unease about the churches in America. Setting aside the current political climate, it seems to be increasingly difficult to find a man or woman in a pulpit or a pew who believes in, much less advocates for Jesus’ teachings.
They may pay lip service to the Sermon on the Mount, but their lives will tell you a much different story. And as much as I had become dismayed at this fact, I was excited to see that scripture already offered an answer for it.
Decade-old healthcare security SNAFU settled for $11M • The Register - Health Net Federal Services (HNFS) and its parent company Centene Corporation, were found liable of lying on security attestations and ignoring 3rd party audits of their environment from 2015-2018. Fine amounts to 0.0067% of it’s 2023 revenue ($163Bn).
Thousands of trafficked scammers await return to Thailand • The Register - Prime Minister Shinawatra said around 7,000 individuals are awaiting transfer to Thailand after being rescued from call centers in Myanmar.
Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers | TechCrunch - Meta will string a cable from the US, Brazil, India, South Africa, and elsewhere. The US Gov’t has committed to the Indian government to assist in this project. Meta-owned Facebook and Insta currently account for 10% of all fixed-internet traffic, and 22% of all mobile traffic.
Beware of DDoSes from Mirai-based botnet of Mitel phones • The Register - Mitel, the phone thats sat on hundreds of desks across the world may have default credentials, and may have been roped into a Mirai botnet as part of the new Aquabotv3. Just a reminder to patch everything. Everywhere. All the time.
Sweden seizes vessel after another undersea cable damaged • The Register - Trans-Baltic cables between Latvia and Sweden were attacked the 26th. This makes the third cable in 2 months in the Baltics. The first being a Between Finland-and-Estonia and Finland-and-Sweden.
China and frieds say they’re hurting cyber-slave scam camps • The Register - China and other Asian nations (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam) are concentrating on cyber-scam slave camps. Many tech-support and romance scams are staffed by human slaves in border regions in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. China estimates 100k of its citizens are currently held in these camps.
ChatGPT crawler flaw opens door to DDoS, prompt injection • The Register - OpenAI’s web crawler has been weaponized by researches creating 20 - 5k requests per single API call to the crawler.
GM settles charges it shared driver location data • The Register - GM collected up to the second GPS data of vehicles, then sold it to Insurance companies to justify raising their premiums
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FCC chief urges auction to fund ‘Rip and Replace’ program • The Register - To fund the removal of Huawei and ZTE equipment from American networks, the FCC is considering a spectrum fire sale. The last sale of Advanced Wireless Services spectrum (for mobile operators) saw AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, among others raise $45bn. Outgoing director Jessica Rosenworcel specifically called out Chinese-based Typhoon actors as being the catalyst for the sale.
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