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| US said to halt offensive cyber ops against Russia as part of effort to cultivate ties |
| 2025-03-03 |
Sweetening the pot. [IsraelTimes] US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia in an effort to renew relations and achieve talks with Moscow on Ukraine, The New York Times reports.The report, which cites a current official and two former officials familiar with the instruction, says this is “part of a larger re-evaluation of all operations against Russia.” The order was given before the extraordinary public shouting match in the Oval Office between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the report adds. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 @2 Schröder, Merkel and their allies having the last laugh in '25. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-03-03 17:11 |
| #4 Having worked on web servers and having monitored the server logs as part of my job, I've known for decades that certain countries engage in vulnerability probes of servers all over the internet. The worst offenders appeared to me to be 1) China, 2) Russia, 3) Ukraine. Other top offenders were Turkey, Romania, Iran and Malaysia. There were others. I think it was generally assumed at the time that China in particular was engaged in state sponsored cyber warfare. How much of this bullshit from other countries was state sponsored and how much was just individual knuckleheads I do not know. I advocated with all the influence I had in my company that we should block all of the IP addresses from all of those countries from access to any of our servers. I was overruled for reasons I cannot fathom so, on my own, I blocked all of the individual IP address of offenders I found in the logs to the servers I administered. All that time I wondered if American spooks conducting vulnerability probes and hacking servers in other countries. Well, of course they were. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-03-03 12:33 |
| #2 US 'in secret talks with Putin ally to restart Nord Stream 2 pipeline' two years after it was blown... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-03 07:39 |
| #1 Trump shocks as he makes huge concession to Russia: 'Putin's on the inside now' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-03-03 07:38 |