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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns.RU

Krebs on Security

Lumen Technologies , an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. ru) from the Internet.

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Kazakhstan Government Intercepting All Secured Internet Traffic

Adam Levin

The Kazakhstan government is intercepting all HTTPS-encrypted internet traffic within its borders. Under a new directive effective 7/17, the Kazakhstan government is requiring every internet service provider in the country to install a security certificate onto every internet-enabled device and browser.

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The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.

Schneier on Security

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. The technologies aren’t perfect; some of them are pretty primitive. Spying is another matter. But so do humans.

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State And Local Government Cyber In-Security Endangers America: Let’s Finally Deal With It

Joseph Steinberg

Such risks are even more troubling when one considers that the federal government has taken all sorts of actions to remove various Chinese-made hardware from its various environments due to national security reasons, but State and Local governments have generally not followed suit. Consider, for example, sewage processing systems.

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U.S. CISA: hackers breached a state government organization

Security Affairs

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack

Security Affairs

The Government of Bermuda believes that the recent cyberattack against its IT infrastructure was launched by Russian threat actors. This week a cyber attack hit the Government of Bermuda causing the interruption of internet/email and phone services. The attack impacted all the government departments. ” said Burt.

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Amy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age

Schneier on Security

Intelligence collectors are everywhere, and government spy agencies are drowning in data. Now everyone is racing for insight and the internet gives them tools to do it. The third challenge posed by emerging technologies strikes at the heart of espionage: secrecy.

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