Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google Google says the the world's lawmakers must take action against the increasing links between criminal and state-sponsored cyber activity. In a fresh report published today, the company's Threat Intelligence Group listed a range of recommendations to help fend off the threat presented by cyber spies in the "Big Four" - Russia, …
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They should know given that they work for the US rogue state supporting crimelords across the globe. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-usa-guns/
That's Guns to Cartels - which is where a lot of the "Ukraine" arms fall off a truck in transit - must be quite a circuitous route.
Article discusses the legal private purchase of a Barrett M107 .50 BMG anti-material rifle that ended up in Mexico illegally without any Ukrainian involvement, implied or otherwise.
I'm normally Captain Second Amendment (still redneck trash in that regard) but the constant with guns in Mexico is that they start out as legal private purchases in the U.S. We could do something about that...*
(* Knowing the sort of people responsive to this innuendo, we'll either ban "scary" guns or people with hispanic surnames from owning guns.)
> the constant with guns in Mexico is that they start out as legal private purchases in the U.S.
Several years ago now, I heard a radio interview with an American owner of a gun store near the border with Mexico. He knew full well the type of people he was selling many of those guns to, and the fact they would end up in the hands of Mexican criminals.
He didn't even attempt to justify this- he genuinely didn't give a fuck that he was helping destablise another country and the lives of other people just a short distance away. He got paid and what he did was legal in the US. Not his problem.
I suspect he was one of countless similar people in the US who didn't care because they never thought this would come back and bite them.
Remember this the next time you're tempted to have any sympathy for Americans whining about a crime wave on their border with Mexico.
"Associates of the INC ransomware group have previously offered 2-5 percent more for initial access resources to hospitals, especially those with emergency departments."
Attacking a nation's healthcare system is an attack on the security of the nation. The highest priority of a nation's defence forces is "Defence of the Realm". Yes, I know that government IT procurement is hard, and that 'there is no more money', but wars can be fought and won by other means than firing bullets and missiles. Attacking the healthcare sector kills people who would otherwise have lived with proper treatment. If that is not an act of war, what is?
*Pun not intended
"lawmakers should be properly incentivizing the implementation of best practices, especially in critical infrastructure."
How about this:
1. Contract states you owe us a refund of 1% of the total project costs (not initial estimate) for each security bug we rate above ___ that is found after implementation (or was found before but you didn't fix), for the first 5 years. There is no limit to how high the refund will go, including over 100%.
2. If your software is routinely buggy or insecure, we won't do business with you anymore.
"Contract states you owe us a refund of 1% of the total project costs (not initial estimate) for each security bug we rate above "
What when no one takes up the offer? A tender where no one subscribes leaves you empty-handed.
The real problem is that the risk of a software project cannot be quantified. Beforehand the requirements are only vaguely known. If the requirements were standard the software would be bought OTS.
As the real risk is unknown, it is buyer beware.
Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google. Only lawmakers can stop them.
I doubt anyone or anything will ever come anywhere near even close to stopping them. And to profess that only lawmakers can stop them is certainly deluded wishful thinking on an epic scale.
:-) And quite whether that optimism or pessimism being expressed is something to ponder on.
All proprietary products, regardless weather from China or the US, are riddled with backdoors. A "good" backdoor doesn't exist, because every backdoor will be found by rogue exploiters at some point in time. The only valid protection would be by FOSS. That’s all.
With Google renaming the Gulf of Mexico to please Trump and my total disgust with their policies in general , their stance to use AI for military use , their use of our data without consent , their spyware called Chrome , and my total dislike for monopolies like Google , Meta and al , i am cheering for the bad guys and quite openly back them up with all the moves they can do to damage google and al which are nothing but thieving the data they now hold. Thieves vs thieves really. Time to call things like they aare. Why should i cheer for Google ? I don't. Google can get bent and ripped off for all i care. That's how they do us for the past 25 years at least.
Are they really going to pretend that the US/UK, Taiwan, Israel, India, etc., don't also do the same thing? There are cyber-gangs for hire all over the world, same as any other type of contractors, and any government that wants to interfere somewhere with no accountability hires them. So do some corporations, if Coca-Cola can hire mercenaries to kill union organizers in Colombia they can hire mercenaries to take down their competition's IT network.
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