hacking news

 possibly Russian   9-2-17  https://www.cnet.com/news/hackers-access-to-hundreds-of-global-electric-systems-dragonfly-cyberattack/

Lebanese  1-23-18  https://www.techrepublic.com/article/dark-caracal-hacking-group-has-stolen-hundreds-of-gigabytes-of-data-from-21-countries/

Chinese   4-4-17  http://www.zdnet.com/article/advanced-chinese-hacking-campaign-infiltrates-managed-it-service-providers-across-the-globe/

Chinese?  10-18-17   http://www.zdnet.com/article/mysterious-cyber-espionage-campaign-uses-torpedo-lure-to-trick-you-into-downloading-malware/

Chinese  11-3-17  http://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-hacking-group-returns-with-new-tactics-for-espionage-campaign/

Russian  2-13-17  http://www.zdnet.com/article/telegram-zero-day-let-hackers-spread-backdoor-and-cryptocurrency-mining-malware/

Chinese intel  9-29-17  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros

Vietnamese  12-1-17  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/nsa-nghia-pho-classified-information-stolen-guilty.html

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8-18-16     In a world where everyone uses the same computers, networks and operating systems, you can't weaponize the defects in those systems without making your own people vulnerable to them.

  This is one of the fundamental problems with calling this business “cyberwar."  Whatever you think about nuclear weapons, the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan Project did not mean that bugs in physics remained unpatched, leaving Americans vulnerable to their enemies' ability to exploit them.  A Manhattan Project for cyberweapons isn't about discovering principles in physics, it's about discovering flaws in technology that has the power of life and death over billions of people, and then doing nothing to fix those flaws.

  The Obama administration, for its part, told the New York Times in 2014 that it ordered the NSA to disclose the security flaws it discovers in computer systems in most cases, but to hold those flaws in secret when they can be used to serve “a clear national security or law enforcement need.”  And Dave Aitel, a former NSA analyst who now runs the security firm ImmunitySec, contends that the sort of exploits exposed in the Shadow Brokers breach do hold exactly that sort of national security value.  “Remote access on Cisco [equipment] sounds like it has national-security-level value to me,” says Aitel, who has posited in a blog post that the data was in fact stolen from the NSA and that the Shadow Brokers group was likely Russian.  “We don’t know what valuable intelligence was gathered through the use of this technology, but you can be assured it was worth spending the time to create it.  When you have 300 megabytes of code that’s this carefully crafted, you didn’t do that for fun.”  https://boingboing.net/2016/08/18/the-nsas-program-of-tech-sab.html

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and perhaps the best analysis:   11-27-17     https://www.infosecure1.com/who-was-the-nsa-contractor-arrested-for-leaking-the-shadow-brokers-hacking-tools/

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on another note--                  6-30-2017  

 At a joint press conference following talks between the two leaders in Moscow, the two leaders announced that the investment will be poured into 20 priority projects, including a joint Vietnamese-Russian oil and gas enterprise, the construction of a light industrial zone in Moscow and projects carried out by Vietnamese dairy group TH in some Russian localities.

Another 500 million USD would be spent on projects with high potentials in new areas of bilateral cooperation like agriculture or medicinal herbs, the leaders said.

The two countries have also set an ambitious target of raising bilateral trade to 10 billion USD by 2020.  Oil and gas will remain the top priority sector for cooperation between the two countries, Putin said.  Vietsovpetro, a Vietnam-Russia joint venture, accounts for a third of the crude oil extracted in Vietnam.

Putin said Russia is committed to providing Vietnam with LPG and other fuels. He also said Russian enterprises are ready to join in modernizing Vietnam’s power plants and help the country build new power plants.

The two leaders also agreed to coordinate closely with each other in implementing the Vietnam-Eurasia Economic Union (VN-EAEU) Free Trade Agreement in order to fully exploit its advantages for further cooperation in trade and investment.

The FTA, involving Vietnam, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, was signed in May 2015 and took effect on October 5 last year.   http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/181154/russia-vietnam-agree-on--10-billion-in-bilateral-investment.html