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White House Weighs Responses as Scope of Federal Hack Widens
posted by seti at 2015-06-12 15:42

seti: scope now includes possible accesses to private data inside background checks... in other words, the dirty laundry of every individual in the security state.

Schneier on Security: Duqu 2.0
posted by noems at 2015-06-12 13:37

noems: duqu too
noems: "...probably a Kerberos zero-day vulnerability involved, allowing ['Israel'] to send updates to Kaspersky's clients... and others... [duqu] includes anti-sniffer defense... packet-injection code... designed to reside in RAM..."
noems: schneier goes on to quote Wired...
noems: ...and Eugene Kaspersky as an expert source on infection of Kaspersky clients via Kaspersky 'antivirus' software
noems: lols
noems: coincidentally, there is a tie-in with a new Kaspersky software designed to detect exactly the kind of threat that was allegedly detected!
noems: Wired exclusively reveals that Kaspersky use Microsoft products in their own internal infrastructure, and possibly do not keep rigorous backups or perform routine audits...
noems: in other news, alien entity has 'got to be using the airshafts to move around...'
    
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