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Western allies consider offensive cyber warfare agreement as Russia launches plan for ‘independent internet’

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Several Western nations are considering an offensive-minded cyberwarfare initiative meant to fundamentally change the way the countries react to attacks from adversary nations, Reuters reports. The accord would guide the deployment of offensive cyberweapons. The agreement, being hammered out by the Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States, may be solidified by 2019. While all the nations involved are members of NATO, a NATO spokesperson speaking to CyberScoop was careful to point out that this is definitively not a NATO-backed initiative. NATO itself recently announced it will establish new command centers to incorporate the cyber domain into operational planning. The alliance has seen an increasing number of attacks against members and institutions and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently said cyber-operations are a potential response any kind of attack against member countries. Irina Novakova, a NATO official, detailed for CyberScoop the alliance’s increasing focus on cyberattacks including the decision that a severe cyberattack could […]

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Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Spain-Catalonia Conflict Goes Digital, Russian Hacking Revealed

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The Spanish government was the week’s top trending cybercrime target due to a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and other attacks that were orchestrated by the hacktivist group Anonymous. The Anonymous’ campaign against the Spanish government comes on the heels of  Catalonia’s recent referendum on independence. As Miguel-Anxo Murado wrote in The New York Review… Read More

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Ransomware outbreak hits hospitals in England, companies in Spain

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A large number of companies in England and Spain were hit by major ransomware attacks on Friday. Hospitals across England were forced to divert emergency patients, according to the National Health Service. Other hospitals are asking patients to avoid coming in except for emergencies, news reports said. In Spain, victims including the telecommunications company Telefónica have been forced the company to tell employees to shut down machines and networks in an effort to stop the spread of the malware. Other victims include Gas Natural and Iberdrola, an electric utility firm. Spanish authorities confirmed the ransomware is a version of WannaCry (also known as WannaCrypt0r), according to the National Cryptology Center. In Spain, El Mundo is reporting that “early indications point to an attack originating in China.” Less is known about the English attacks. Trusts and Hospitals in London and across England have been hit. St Bart’s in London, which was hit with ransomware on […]

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Add Data To Your Shipping Suspicions With This Power-Sipping Datalogger

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One only has to ship one or two things via a container, receiving them strangely damaged on the other end, before you start to wonder about your shipper. Did they open this box and sort of stomp around a bit? Did I perhaps accidentally contract a submarine instead of a boat? Did they take a detour past the sun? How could this possibly have melted?

[Jesus Echavarria]‘s friend had similar fears and suspicions about a box he is going to have shipped from Spain to China. So [Jesus] got to work and built this nice datalogger to discover the truth.  …read more

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