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Hackers "often breach the Department’s defensive perimeter and roam freely within our information systems"
"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.
Attackers demonstrated such sophisticated persistence capabilities that Barracuda and Mandiant have urged users to dump affected appliances irrespective of patch level.
"These coherence times are unprecedented for superconducting processors of this scale and allow the circuit depths accessed in this work..."
"It is clear that the internet is so, so brittle" and possibly held together with duct tape
AWS admitted that “customers may also have experienced issues when attempting to initiate a Call or Chat to AWS Support” during the incident. What happened to recent architectural changes designed to avoid this?
The threat group has also used a wide range of attacker scripts to get vpxuser credentials, enumerate ESXi hosts and their guest VMs, and manipulate connected ESXi host firewall rules in order to steal data.
Government promises a new "National Biosurveillance Network" that would join up "syndromic, epidemiological and promising environmental surveillance capabilities" in a new "Biothreats Radar" but promised funding is far from huge...
