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Joint Statement on the Strategic Third Neighbor Partnership between the United States of America and Mongolia

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August 2, 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris welcomed Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai to Washington, D.C., on August 2nd to celebrate the strategic Third Neighbor partnership between the United States and Mongolia. The two sides acknowledged the advancement of U.S.-Mongolia relations since the 2019 declaration of the two countries’ Strategic Partnership, which has provided a firm foundation to promote and strengthen bilateral relations. Ties between our two countries are at their strongest point yet and have developed on the basis of shared principles, respect for good governance, sovereignty, the rule of law, and human rights, as well as Mongolia’s Third Neighbor policy. 

The United States applauded Mongolia’s efforts to expand relations in the region and around the world, thus contributing to international stability. In this context, our two countries shared respective views on ensuring a prosperous, peaceful, and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. Together, the United States and Mongolia are expanding our strategic partnership with a focus on building economic resilience, promoting democratic principles and institutions, and strengthening our security cooperation. As strategic Third Neighbors, we will sustain our close partnership and forge ties between our citizens to ensure their continued prosperity and security. 

Deepening Economic Cooperation

The United States and Mongolia are partnering on joint responses to the 21st century’s most difficult economic challenges, exploring opportunities to increase trade and investment through bilateral cooperation and regional trade mechanisms. Our countries share a desire to deepen the bilateral economic relationship in areas of mutual interest and to pursue opportunities for cooperation in the mineral resources sector, clean energy, food security, and the digital economy through existing and new mechanisms, including for capacity building and trade promotion. 

Mongolia introduced the priorities of Mongolia’s New Recovery policy and related project implementation through public-private partnerships and Mongolia’s Vision-2050 long-term development policy. Both Governments…

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Australia-United States Joint Leaders’ Statement – An Alliance for our Times

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We, Prime Minister Albanese and President Biden, meet at a uniquely consequential time for our Alliance, the Indo-Pacific, and the world.

Our partnership reflects more than one hundred years of trust, respect, friendship and shared sacrifice. Our relationship is founded on a shared commitment to supporting an open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific, and a peaceful, inclusive and rules-based international order based on respect for international law and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states. It is anchored in shared values of democracy, the rule of law, and the protection and promotion of human rights.

Today we renew these bonds as we enhance the Alliance to respond to evolving challenges.

Addressing Climate and Biodiversity Action, and Clean Energy Transition

Today we have signed a statement of intent to advance our climate cooperation through the Australia-United States Climate, Critical Minerals, and Clean Energy Transformation Compact. We are taking urgent action to elevate global climate ambition, accelerate the global clean energy transition, and support mitigation, adaptation and resilience efforts in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. The Compact affirms the position of climate and clean energy as the third pillar of the Alliance, alongside our defence and economic cooperation.

Under the Compact, Australia and the United States intend for our private sectors, resources, and industrial strength to drive innovation and accelerate the establishment of a responsible, secure, and inclusive global clean energy economy. We intend to coordinate to spur the diversification and expansion of clean energy supply chains, address the growing energy demands of the Indo-Pacific, and enhance the Indo-Pacific’s role as a primary driver of global prosperity. The newly-established Australia-U.S. Forum on Clean Energy Industrial Transformation and Taskforce on Critical Minerals will allow both our countries to deepen cooperation to deliver sustainable, resilient, and secure critical minerals and clean energy to the world and reduce emissions.

Our countries are committed to halting and reversing environmental degradation, including via environmental…

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City of Oakland posts statement on ransomware attack, as hackers begin posting data online

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City of Oakland says cyber-thieves releasing some city workers’ personal information

The City of Oakland on Monday acknowledged cyber-thieves have started releasing personal information of some city workers as part of an ongoing ransomware attack. Social Security numbers, drivers licenses and other information are all part of the data that has been stolen.

OAKLAND, Calif. – The City of Oakland Monday acknowledged that its servers have been hijacked by a hacker group called Play, in a cyberattack that has crippled the city’s systems and compromised private data.

The mayor declined to talk about the issue and the City Administrator’s office was dark Monday afternoon.

Instead, a message was posted on the city’s website acknowledging the ransomware attack and warning about a network outage. 

“Moving forward we will focus on strengthening the security of our information technology systems,” said Mayor Sheng Thao in the statement on the website.

The hacker group ramped up the stakes over the weekend. Online, the group posted a statement declaring they have access to personal confidential data, financial information, IDs, passports, employee information, and human rights violation information.

The website indicated the page had more than 1,130 views.

The hacker group posted a link with a password for people to download part of the stolen data and issued a threat saying, “If there (sic) no reaction full dump will be uploaded.”
Cooper Quintin, a Senior Staff Technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says the hacker group Play is not well-known, but has been flagged in the past by some cybersecurity websites that share bits of codes from various hacker groups in order help tech experts fight off attacks and improve security.

“It looks like they have ties to some pretty established ransomware groups like Conti, which was a big one as recently as last year,” said Quintin.

Quintin was able to access parts of Play’s hacker code from an online cybersecurity page.

“So this is a bespoke piece of software they’ve developed in house that they can, you know, on any computer system that they get a foothold on, they can deploy it and just instantly encrypt all the files and then send a…

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Hospital for Sick Children says it’s ‘aware’ of online statement offering free decryptor

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Toronto

The Hospital for Sick Children says it is aware of an online statement from a ransomware group that offers a decryptor to restore systems impacted by a mid-December cybersecurity incident.

Ransomware group has offered a decryptor to restore systems affected by cybersecurity incident

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The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids Hospital) at the end of November 2022. SickKids says it’s aware of an online statement from a ransomware group that offers a decryptor to restore systems impacted by a cybersecurity incident. (Michael Wilson/CBC)

The Hospital for Sick Children says it is aware of an online statement from a ransomware group that offers a decryptor to restore systems impacted by a mid-December cybersecurity incident.

Canada’s largest pediatric health-care centre said in a news release issued Sunday evening that the statement includes “an offer of a free decryptor” after some of its systems were impacted by a ransomware attack on Dec. 18.

The hospital says it has engaged “third-party experts to validate and assess the use of the decryptor” mentioned in the statement.

The hospital had said after the attack that it had delayed lab and imaging results and it could lead to longer wait times, noting that some of its systems could be offline for weeks.

The hospital had said at the time that it was unable to provide details about the nature of the attack, calling it an “active and ongoing incident.”

SickKids said in the Sunday statement that it has restored “over 60 per cent of priority systems” as of Jan. 1 and has not made a ransomware payment.

It said there is no evidence to date that personal information was affected by the attack.

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