By Justin Katz
While both public- and private-sector entities are still reeling from the consequences from the SolarWinds Orion hack, the National Institute of Standards and Technology this week published new tools to help organizations defend sensitive information against nation-state backed threats.
The tools are mostly aimed at non-governmental entities responsible for housing sensitive, but unclassified government information. The security controls largely fall into one of three categories: structuring systems to be resistant against malicious actors, improving an organization s ability to detect threats and mitigate potential damage and ensuring an organization can recover from an attack. We developed SP 800-171 in response to major cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, and its companion document SP 800-172 is designed to mitigate attacks from advanced cyber threats such as the advanced persistent threat actor, said Ron Ross, a computer scientist and a NIST fell
ON THE BRINK
Nuclear war with China or Russia is a REAL possibility, warns US Commander as tensions escalate to Cold War levels
Jon Lockett
Updated: 3 Feb 2021, 11:51
AMERICA must now be primed for a full-scale nuclear war with China or Russia, warns the head of US Strategic Command.
Four-star Admiral Charles Richard says the chances of an apocalyptic conflict with the rival superpowers is now a real possibility .
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Admiral Charles Richard heads the United States Strategic CommandCredit: Alamy
His stark World War 3 warning - which came amid mounting global tensions - was made in a major new review of the current balance of nuclear firepower.
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The Pakistani missile also uses WS$51200 ‘Transporter Erector Launcher’, which is manufactured in China by the Wanshan Special Vehicle.
Proliferation experts argued that the auto-clave seized at Kandla was meant for similar missile programmes.
The recently released report titled the “Smuggling In India Report 2019-20” by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) revealed that the Customs and domain experts recently carried out two crucial seizures of items possibly linked to missiles. The first seizure was of a consignment of chemical, which was possibly a dual-use chemical the one that could be used as a propellant in missiles.
The second seizure was a more significant one, as an auto-clave was seized at Kandla port that was routed towards Pakistan s Port Qasim. The autoclave was seized from a Chinese ship named Dai Cui Yun, carried a Hong Kong flag and had left Jiangyin port on Yangtze River in Jiangsu province of China bound for Pakistan s Port Qasim.
Feb 3, 2021
As U.S. President Joe Biden begins his administration, North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un are better placed in world affairs than was the case when Biden became vice president in 2009 or when Donald Trump became president in 2017. Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs have made rapid and substantial advances on each of these milestone dates of successive U.S. administrations. Consequently, each new administration has faced an increasingly limited range of options on North Korea.
According to the best-guess estimate by the Federation of American Scientists, North Korea has a stockpile of 20-30 nuclear warheads and sufficient fissile material for up to 60 warheads. It has medium-range ballistic missiles already deployed and intermediate-range and intercontinental missiles in development, having demonstrated ICBM capability already in 2017. In acquiring this nuclear-weapon capability, three generations of Kims have shown extraordinary resilience against i
Combined COVID mutations discovered in the UK
A South African variant of coronavirus, now also in the UK, is making an existing mutation there more infectious and may even reduce the effect of vaccines.
Bad things seldom come alone. In the UK, COVID experts have detected the first cases of a British variant of the virus that is carrying an additional gene mutation seen also in a South African variant.
The cases are causing concern because it is possible that the two negative characteristics could combine.
In Britain, the variant B.1.1.7 has already made the virus more infectious. The South African variant 501Y.V2, meanwhile, carries a mutation called E484K. And that very same mutation E484K has been found in Brazilian variants as well, namely, variants B.1.1.33 and B.1.1.28.