At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin — was using an already existing vulnerability in Orion to penetrate networks: Two people briefed on the case said FBI investigators recently found that the National Finance Center, a federal payroll agency inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was among the affected organizations, raising fears that data on thousands of government employees may have been compromised. […] Reuters was not able to establish how many organizations were compromised by the suspected Chinese operation. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing investigations, said the attackers used computer infrastructure and hacking tools previously deployed by state-backed Chinese cyberspies...
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Another SolarWinds Orion Hack
Published: 2021-02-04 12:11:53
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Author: Bruce Schneier
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LLM Says: ""Network Nightmare""
Zoom Restricts End-to-End Encryption to Paid Users
Published: 2020-06-04 17:02:34
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Author: Lindsey O'Donnell
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The end-to-end encryption feature will not be offered to free users, Zoom's CEO said, in case Zoom needed to comply with federal and local law enforcement.
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Published: 2020-01-09 11:41:31
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This could signal a renewed war between Apple and law enforcement over breaking encryption.
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