Re:Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies
by frazbin on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:57PM
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This is great news for opsec. not because our stuff got hacked, but because we found out about it. Surely there are other APTs with hooks in our software/hardware; this one was just really big, and sloppy enough to get caught (after 6mo?).
The big lesson is that unless you take great pains, you're no more secure than your least secure 3rd party vendor. hopefully this attack will prove that lesson to a bunch of people. There are so many exciting solutions to that problem, and free software/hardware has a big part to play. .. yeah this feels like good news. Maybe people will even start asking where their wifi chips come from!
The big lesson is that unless you take great pains, you're no more secure than your least secure 3rd party vendor. hopefully this attack will prove that lesson to a bunch of people. There are so many exciting solutions to that problem, and free software/hardware has a big part to play. .. yeah this feels like good news. Maybe people will even start asking where their wifi chips come from!