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Ukraine and the European Union continue to find themselves in a kind of parallel reality and have not yet lost hope that Ukraine will regain all its territories.

Оn the sidelines of the International Ukraine Recovery Conference underway in Lugano (Switzerland) through July 4-5, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal held a number of meetings with high-ranking officials of partner countries and international organizations.

According to pro-Russian Telegram channels, Ukraine has already allocated which European country will rebuild which Ukrainian region. Ukraine's reconstruction plan was presented at the conference in Switzerland. For example, the Donetsk People's Republic
will be restored by Poland and Italy, the Luhansk People's Republic by the Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland, etc.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said Ukraine needs $750 billion for a three-phase recovery plan and hopes European partners will redirect frozen Russian assets to Ukraine because Ukraine is counting on that money. The other half of the funds must come from European partners.

Before this reconstruction plan is implemented, only the small and insignificant detail remains - Ukraine must regain these territories.

MortyandRick said:

At this point is there anything the Chinese govt can do to remedy the situation? Other then trying to correct the loophole in the security?

The seller is likely not in China so the MSS and chinese police has limited reach.

I really can’t think of anything they can do at this time. What a shitty situation. Man I wish they can locate the guy and just lob a missile or something and claim it was a misfire.

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This situation is also a test for the internal and external security apparatus in China as well. Any situation good or bad can always be used as an opportunity to test their measures or countermeasures put in place built for situations such as these. You can't tell me that none of the Chinese cyber security experts or personnel have looked or considered the situation like this from happening without having any contingencies to deal with worst case scenarios. I mean, after all, are the authorities this dumb and mother f...ng stupid that if and when China tries to military operation in Taiwan that cyber attacks, hacking, internal saboteurs wouldn't commence the moment that happens?

As I have previously contented, there's a lot on this thing we are in a dark about and since the authorities wouldn't want to highlight this embarrassing and frankly speaking damaging weak points in local government without dragging the central governments reputation to allay the public's growing concern and anger. But there has to be a top down review on their data protection and dissemination because like it or not this recent hacking incident will be used and abused by the West, especially politicians for misinformation, and disinformation war against any and all Chinese tech and non-tech companies as unsafe, unsophisticated, vulnerable and data compromising products that are harmful to any unwitting Western customers.

Perception is reality and like it or not, the negative perception about China as bad quality lingers to this day, and adding this hacking incident does not help to alleviate that perception; it just simply tacks on to further that perception even more strongly.

kokole said:

Ukraine and the European Union continue to find themselves in a kind of parallel reality and have not yet lost hope that Ukraine will regain all its territories.

Оn the sidelines of the International Ukraine Recovery Conference underway in Lugano (Switzerland) through July 4-5, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal held a number of meetings with high-ranking officials of partner countries and international organizations.

According to pro-Russian Telegram channels, Ukraine has already allocated which European country will rebuild which Ukrainian region. Ukraine's reconstruction plan was presented at the conference in Switzerland. For example, the Donetsk People's Republic
will be restored by Poland and Italy, the Luhansk People's Republic by the Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland, etc.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said Ukraine needs $750 billion for a three-phase recovery plan and hopes European partners will redirect frozen Russian assets to Ukraine because Ukraine is counting on that money. The other half of the funds must come from European partners.

Before this reconstruction plan is implemented, only the small and insignificant detail remains - Ukraine must regain these territories.

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And Russia would help to develop Crimea.

caudaceus said:

Json data likely means that it is based on MongoDB

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Or the data was gathered by exploiting an API end-point loophole. APIs return JSON objects

Overbom said:

Or the data was gathered by exploiting an API end-point loophole. APIs return JSON objects

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Absolute bonker if those are fetched from API.
Did nobody put a rate limiter?

caudaceus said:

Absolute bonker if those are fetched from API.
Did nobody put a rate limiter?

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You never know. JSON data are something that APIs usually deal with. I wouldn't be surprised if someone forgot about this stuff.

Probably the central servers (rookie mistake lol) "trusted" the clients (police stations) and whoever went into that police station basically had 100% unrestricted data access.

My go to answer in these situations is always human stupidity (in this case, in designing the software system)

Otherwise, how would someone get so much data without having direct access to the servers?

The breach is a pretty shitty situation, no doubt, but people don't take cybersecurity seriously until they get burned. Before that it's just an unjustified expense and inefficiency. China's good at the offensive cyber, not so much the defensive - hopefully now that will change.

ZeEa5KPul said:

The breach is a pretty shitty situation, no doubt, but people don't take cybersecurity seriously until they get burned. Before that it's just an unjustified expense and inefficiency. China's good at the offensive cyber, not so much the defensive - hopefully now that will change.

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Nah, I definitely think there are some branches/services/agencies etc. within China (government or military) that do have good/strong cybersecurity.

But cybersecurity strength simply differs between branches/services etc.

I would say this one, if real (might very well be), still represent a pretty big cybersecurity weakness at the very least for China's police (in data storage). Probably similar levels of problems can be found in different local/lower government branches as well I suspect.

But at the end of the day, even before this, I would expect the CIA to like, most likely have at least basic info of most chinese citizens (name, birthplace, national ID etc.), especially when one remember the pre-2012 days (before the big anti corruption purges).

And I would expect chinese 'CIA' or the likes, to also have been able to breach and get a hold of such info for US and other countries (other countries like say Russia most likely also have).

In general, basic info that is used often at 'low levels' just isn't likely to have the most top secure and best cybersecurity.

tokenanalyst said:

A group of Texas educators proposed using the term 'involuntary relocation' rather than slavery when teaching 2nd graders​

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Texas man.

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No surprise.
Just like when they genocide the American Indians. I think the term they used was 'civilizing the savages'.

Crang said:

It seems like a lot of people in Singapore are really into bicycling. Which doesn't make sense to me, it's too hot and humid. It's such a prole sport.

I find people in Singapore quite naiive and complacent. Singapore's natural gas contracts are going to expire in 2023 and 2024, and they can expect their inflation to go even higher because of the rising energy prices. Most people don't realize an energy crisis Germany style is brewing in the 'little red dot' in the horizon. Singapore can only expect renewables to hit no more than 20% of power generation even if they spam solar panels everywhere. The country doesn't actually have a proper coal-fired plant, so they can't take in coal even though its cheaper right now.

Malaysia and Indonesia may have been joking about cutting off domestic natural gas exports to Singapore, but they might actually do it now for domestic energy security reasons. That'll be pretty bad, since a large part of Singapore's imported natural gas comes from Malaysia and Indonesia. There's definitely a high chance a significant portion of Malaysian and Indonesian natural gas to be cut off to Singapore. Then people will have to significantly cut down A/C which will be searing hot.

They don't even know where their energy and electricity comes from at all. Electricity is never guaranteed to be ever-present and affordable. You can't afford to outsource all your thinking and strategy to the government.

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His brakes goes into overseas market I think. Singapore is tiny place, public transport is superb, cars are super expensive, not sure about bike lanes nowadays. Back then cycling along east coast was a popular past time.

I don't know about natural gas supply but The Singapore govt back then is actually not complacent about critical things like water supply which used to be heavily dependent on johore Malaysia. There was constant talk of it when I was growing up both in public media and privately. The dark humour joke of Malaysia not needing to invade with troops but just cutting off water supply to sgp.

The govt definitely made contingency plans for that.

Recently food security is a major talking point though. Especially after Malaysia cut off poultry during this food crisis. Singapore agriculture industry isn't enough and they depend on outside sources for food supply.