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‘We’re firefighters for victims of armed conflict’ – Hackers Without Borders co-founder on NGO’s timely arrival

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‘We had NGOs for press, medical staff, and mental health issues, but not for cyber-attack victims’

Hackers Without Borders co-founder discusses the NGOs timely arrival

INTERVIEW A trailblazing humanitarian group launched last month as Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border. What followed has made its existence all the more necessary.

Hackers Without Borders (HWB) is a Paris-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that is offering emergency infosec assistance to other NGOs and providers of critical services.

Like its fellow French NGO and semi-namesake Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the group emphasizes its neutrality when helping victims of armed conflict.

Staffed by volunteer hackers and infosec experts, the organization will, free of charge, help individuals or organizations handle the fallout of cyber-attacks, protect them from further assaults, and bolster their cyber-resilience.

“We have NGOs for press, for medical staff, and mental health issues, but not for protecting and helping the victims of cyber-attacks,” HWB co-founder Florent Curtet tells The Daily Swig.

“We hope to change this by creating an NGO that’s run by cybersecurity experts, who can provide security assistance to those in need.”

Curtet, a web security specialist who has previously pen-tested systems for Interpol, the UN, and the French Ministry of Armed Forces, is one of four co-founders with a range of expertise.

The others include Pierre-Marie Léoutre, a crypto-security expert and former threat intelligence specialist at the Gendarmerie Nationale; Karim Lamouri, a multilingual IT director for a Parisian suburb and security consultancy CEO; and Clément Domingo, an ethical hacker, capture-the-flag (CTF) competition founder and participant, and digital privacy campaigner.

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Red Cross attack

The quartet decided to form HWB after being angered by the recent cyber-attack against the International Committee of the Red Cross that exposed information belonging to over half a million “highly vulnerable” people.

On February 4, just over two weeks later, HWB launched with the…

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Noida: Armed thieves break into mobile showroom, flee with 600 new handsets, cash worth Rs 2.5 crore | Noida News

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GREATER NOIDA: Even as cops were busy in security arrangements on the occasion of Diwali, at least three i20-borne armed thieves barged into a mobile showroom in Greater Noida and stole around 600 new phones of different companies kept on the racks and drawers of the showroom along with about Rs 6 lakh cash from inside the cash counter.
The incident happened around 1.30am on Friday when the thieves seated in the i20 arrived at Noor Communication showroom in Saifi market in Greater Noida’s Surajpur area and allegedly cut the six locks and a channel attached to join the shutter.
Possible professionals, the accused allegedly uprooted the DVR of the CCTV set up before escaping from the spot.
At least some of the accused who got down from the i20 and orchestrated the theft have been caught on CCTV cameras installed at some other buildings around the showroom.
In one of the CCTV footages, at least three accused can be seen arriving inside the lane a few meters away from the showroom a few minutes after a police patrolling vehicle leaves the spot.
The accused can be seen speeding over a pothole making the showroom owners suspect that they might be well known to the area.
“They simply arrived there a minute after the police patrol van left. They stopped at some distance and two persons have been caught on camera doing all the movement. One of them was talking on the phone while another could be seen moving around with a bag,” Imran’s younger brother Irfan told TOI.
Irfan said that while the presence of three suspects was clear, they suspect that there could be more than four persons involved in the theft.
“They have taken away around 600 mobiles of Samsung, Redmi, One Plus, Vivo, Techno, Oppo, Redmi, RealMe, Intel, etc. They have even taken out stuff from inside the drawers. It does not seem possible to escape with so much in one vehicle,” he said.
Imran said that the accused opened the cash counter and took out Rs 6 lakh cash which was kept inside the same.
“In all, I have suffered a loss of about Rs 2.5 crore,” he said.
There are as many as eight cameras installed inside and outside the showroom but the accused simply fled with the DVR.
Cops suspect insiders’…

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S. Korean armed forces demonstrate readiness with joint landing operationNews

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A South Korean Air Force P-3C maritime patrol aircraft flies over the coastline of Yeongilman along with an E-737 Peace Eye.
The operation code is “Peacemaker.”
Soon, the Air Force’s aerial refueling aircraft KC-330 will make its way above the coastline guarded by military fighter jets– F-35A and F-15K.
With purple smoke RF-16 Global Hawk aircrafts soar into the sky followed by the loud noise of a sonic boom.
Their mission is to hit the Air Force’s main target.
Now, it’s the turn of the Korea Assault Amphibious Vehicle.
With yellow and white smoke shooting out of the sea 48 KAAVs and 48 IBS inflatable boats land along the coastline while Apache attack helicopters along with several Surions, Chinooks, and Black Hawks, which provide airborne firepower support.
Soon after landing with loud shouts some 8-hundred marines fully equipped with military gear run forward from the KAAVs.
Their unit target is secured.

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“One of the highlights from this year’s event: joint forces from the Army, Navy, and Air Force demonstrated their amphibious operations.”

For the first time in history, the South Korean Marine Corps was the host for this year’s Armed Forces Day taking place in the southeastern port of Pohang– the home of the Marine Corps since 1959.
More importantly, Pohang is where UN forces initiated its first amphibious mission during the Korean War which became one of the war’s most pivotal areas.

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“To prepare for the 73rd Armed Forces Day, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps trained and practiced together. The whole process was a chance to be able to check our military’s readiness for joint operations.”

Finally, the joint landing mission is completed. with the raising of the South Korean flag.
The country’s armed forces vow to develop an integrated air defense systemand to prepare for a modernized military defense as well as a cyber warfare system based on Artificial Intelligence.
Choi Won-jong, Arirang News, Pohang.

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UK armed forces confirms cyber as fifth dimension of warfare

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Armed forces needs to adapt to recruit more digital quartermasters rather than conventional soldiers, conference attendees told

The UK armed forces have said that cyber is the fifth dimension of warfare

The UK’s armed forces are planning to make significant investments in cybersecurity capabilities and skills over the next few years, according to the country’s military leaders.

Cyber’s status as the “fifth domain” of warfare – alongside sea, land, air, and more recently, space – is forcing defense forces across the West to change how they operate.

This re-evaluation ranges from prioritizing the protection of digital communications, through bolstering defensive and offensive cybersecurity capabilities to building skills.

Building a military Internet of Things

The UK military – along with other NATO nations – is investing in robotics and autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, computer-based or synthetic training, and what is being termed a “military Internet of Things”.

At this week’s DSEI conference in London, the roll-call of sci-fi technologies on show even included a commitment to develop directed energy ‘laser’ weapons.

All these changes in operational priorities poses challenges for both the UK Ministry of Defence and the armed forces themselves.

Although senior officers complain – at least in private – about the ‘Xbox generation’, the needs of today’s armed forces, and requirements for the next generation of recruits, lean more heavily on technology skills than ever. And nowhere is this more apparent than in the cyber space.

Adapt or die

General Sir Patrick Sanders heads the UK’s Strategic Command, the military organization responsible for multi-domain operations, including space and cyber.

Gen Sanders told delegates at DSEI that he needs personnel who can operate across all the dimensions of warfare, or “penta-phibians”.

These future military personnel will have “the ability to operate seamlessly across all five domains [of warfare],” he said.

“We’re going to need to think radically about the career model, training, and education that accelerates the pace of this evolution because if we don’t adapt, we will at best become exquisite but irrelevant – and at…

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