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US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid

Security Affairs

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West’s main military alliance, NATO.”

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

Security Affairs

In 2004, CIA and Mossad requested help to the the Dutch intelligence to get access to the plant, only in 2007 the mole, who posed as a mechanic working for a front company doing work at Natanz, dropped the virus into the target systems. “[T ] he Dutch mole was the most important way of getting the virus into Natanz,” one of the sources told Yahoo.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. The yearbook photos for the Amtek class of 2004 are not indexed in the Wayback Machine at archive.org, but the names and nicknames of 16 students remain. However, it appears that the entry for one student — the Wmpay[.]com ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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The Future of War (From Jan., 1993 to the Present)

John Battelle's Searchblog

The most notable of these continuing operations is the not-so-covert war in Pakistan, where the United States has carried out more than 300 drone strikes since 2004. This is virtual reality as a new way of knowledge: a new and terrible kind of transcendent military power. It also affects how we and our politicians view such operations.

Military 101
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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004. Correctiv notes the notorious hacker group Sandworm — an advanced persistent threat (APT) group operated by a cyberwarfare unit of Russia’s military intelligence service — was identified by Ukrainian government authorities as responsible for that attack.

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How To Locate D-Day Footage in NARA’s Moving Image Holdings

Unwritten Record

In what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, the operation, codenamed Overlord , was the beginning of the liberation of Northern Europe from Nazi occupation. Military since the 1880s to document combat and support operations visually. Combat camera operators, many of whom were U.S.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004. One of the most single-minded of these security vendors is startup CyCognito.