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Infowars Store Enjoyed Traffic Boost During ‘Stop the Steal”https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/04/06/” Southern Poverty Law Center

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Hatewatch analyzed four years of domain ranking data on Jones’ Infowars Store from the internet security company Cisco. The data show the prolific and influential conspiracy theorist Jones faced a decline in the popularity of his store prior to Stop the Steal, but a rise during November 2020, December 2020 and the first days of January 2021. This rise in traffic hit levels the extremist had not generated since the early days of President Trump’s administration.

Hatewatch’s finding shines new light on profit-driven incentives Jones and other far-right influencers may have seen while supporting former President Trump’s election lies, as his supporters gathered to protest across the country. Jones, whose Infowars Store made $165 million in the three years from 2015-18, according to documents first obtained by HuffPost, has in private expressed revulsion over Trump.

Hatewatch previously reported on a leaked video of Jones saying in January 2019, “I’m so sick of fucking Donald Trump, man. God, I’m fucking sick of him.” Despite saying these words on camera, Jones went on to stoke anger among Trump’s supporters by perpetuating the ex-president’s inflammatory claims about election rigging that never happened. Jones promoted Trump’s Stop the Steal lies in a speech to Trump’s supporters on Jan. 5, 2021, in Washington, D.C., less than 24 hours before some of them went on to attack the Capitol.

“We have only begun to resist the globalists. We have only begun our fight against their tyranny. They have tried to steal this election in front of everyone,” Jones said on the eve of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Quantum computing and classical politics: The ambiguity of advantage in signals intelligence – Center for Security Studies

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Quantum computing and classical politics: The ambiguity of advantage in signals intelligence – Center for Security Studies | ETH Zurich

























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Protect your data center from ransomware attacks

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Data centers are on the front line of the growing battle to control and prevent ransomware attacks. Attacks on data centers have evolved into triple extortion threats — which involve accessing data, encrypting it and threatening to release vulnerable IP — because they have specific vulnerabilities that individual PCs do not.

In the past, ransomware attackers targeted individuals with links sent via email, enabling them to encrypt a PC. Attackers have now discovered they can move up the food chain — to the data center, which contains a greater quantity of valuable information.

Prevent ransomware attacks

Because hackers have moved from “spray and pray” methods — which essentially amount to sending emails containing links to download malware and hoping recipients click — to highly targeted attacks, every aspect of cybersecurity must consider ransomware defense.

“Essentially, ransomware [forces us to consider] all the [same] things we had to think about before — protecting usernames and passwords, whether to do multifactor authorization, whether to segment the network or implement zero trust, and how to better protect sensitive data,” said Frank Dickson, program vice president of security and trust at IDC.

To protect your data center, you must look to the fundamentals of cybersecurity. Identify critical assets, protect those assets, scan for malicious behavior and respond to that behavior when it arises.

Keep all applications in the data center to ease security operations. However, digital transformation increasingly moves data to the cloud, or even multiple clouds. Even though data lives in the cloud, management remains on premises. This setup opens up new vulnerabilities as points of attack.

“There is a direct correlation between the number of clouds and the number of breaches; it is a function of complexity. Anything you can do to reduce complexity and reduce your attack surface can help,” Dickson said.

Popular cloud providers AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle each have different configurations, which can make implementing resilience difficult. If you use four separate clouds, you must also learn all their different access rules and tools to protect them.

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Extreme : Security and Availability across Service Provider Data Center and Mobile Edge Network Infrastructure with Trusted Delivery

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Headlines around supply chain attacks remain consistent. Those attacks keep on growing. 2020 ended with a blockbuster supply chain attack, namely Solarwinds, and attacks continued well into 2021.

The Identify Theft Resource Center keeps a tap on all publicly known security breaches. By September 30, 2021 the total number of events in comparison to FY 2020 has been exceeded by 17 percent. The trendline continues to point to a record-breaking year for data compromises. You can check over here for more details.

Those security breaches have several material business impacts:

  • Disruption of operation of the supply chain
  • Significant damage to brand and reputation
  • Impact on product safety and integrity
  • Loss of theft of IP
  • Substantial fines and fees

With cyberattacks on the rise, supply chain security is more critical than ever, requiring state-of-the-art network technology from end to end. Trusted Delivery enables network administrators to validate hardware components, boot processes, and the operating system (OS) throughout the device lifecycle – without disrupting device functionality – mitigating the risk of supply chain cyberattacks.

Trusted Delivery – Key Benefits:

  • Secure Foundation for Future Deployments: With Trusted Delivery, Extreme delivers an additional layer of certainty for Service Providers that are beginning to move away from legacy solutions and ensures a foundation of secure, validated infrastructure to support new networks. Available today across the Extreme 8000 Series, including the Extreme 8520 and Extreme 8720 data center and cellular edge leaf and spine switches, Trusted Delivery provides mechanisms for verifying device security and performance during operation, enabling service providers to deploy new infrastructure with confidence.
  • Increased Simplicity in Hardware Validation: Measured boot, an anti-tamper mechanism, gives operators the ability to validate hardware and boot processes remotely without shutting the device down. This saves time and…

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