China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought The Netherlands' cybersecurity agency (NCSC) says the previously reported attack on the country's Ministry of Defense (MoD) was far more extensive than previously thought. The NCSC first published details of a Chinese state-sponsored malware campaign in February, but has continued to investigate the case along with the …
So what happened to the use of memory-safe languages?
It's utterly deplorable that security appliances seem to be coded to the same abysmal standards as the systems they're intended to protect. As Juvenal said centuries back "who guards the guards?" -- apparently nobody these days.
> .. It's utterly deplorable that security appliances seem to be coded to the same abysmal standards as the systems they're intended to protect ..
Not just the code but the hardware its intended to run on. Unless such bugs are intentionally left-in back-doors. Regardless, who is going to protect us from those no-good Chinese atheist hackers /s
Everyone remember Vault 7 right?
The CIA hacking kit that was designed to leave traces of their adversaries behind, remember that?
Who is calling China a threat to the world right now again?
Who is it that wants every European nation to stop doing business with China again?
Yeah, that makes far more sense than China hacking the Netherlands.
Looking forward to being proven right again.
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So the Chinese will happily sacrifice their own people en mass, are currently trying to rewrite Tianmen Square on twitter as a peaceful event - the violence being somehow staged by the West 4 miles away!? - & thousands of people are harvested for organs as punishment for crime, but, they'd never hack a router!
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