Anonymous ID: 4848f1 Oct. 9, 2018, 2:17 p.m. No.3412958   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2988

Pakistan Quitting Anti-Pirate Task Force. US says meh, pay for your own gas.

 

Pakistan's navy is no longer part of the counterpiracy Combined Task Force (CTF) that operates in the western Indian Ocean, officials told Al Jazeera.

 

The decision to leave the task force was taken after the US-led operation refused to pay for fuel for the patrolling warships as part of a previous agreement, two highly-placed military officials told Al Jazeera on the condition of anonymity.

 

Military officials believe that CTF nations will feel Pakistan's absence because of its counter-piracy expertise and the Pakistani vessels' access to waters that are not friendly to Western flag-bearing ships.

 

Pakistan has taken command of the task force several times since 2013 and participated in operations with two warships that patrolled the Arabian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/pakistan-navy-quits-anti-piracy-task-force-worsening-ties-181008194945464.html

Anonymous ID: 4848f1 Oct. 9, 2018, 2:32 p.m. No.3413252   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3310

Ex Israely Army Intelligence catches China Hacking America.

 

A major American telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer (Supermicro) in its network and removed it in August – fresh evidence of China tampering in critical technology components bound for the US, a security expert working for the company has said.

 

The expert, Yossi Appleboum, provided documents, analysis and other evidence of the discovery that detailed how China’s intelligence services had ordered subcontractors to plant malicious chips in Supermicro server motherboards over a two-year period ending in 2015.

 

Appleboum previously worked in the technology unit of the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps and is now co-chief executive officer of Sepio Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His firm specialises in hardware security and was hired to scan several large data centres belonging to the telecommunications company. The company is not being identified because of Appleboum’s nondisclosure agreement with the client.

 

https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/article/2167737/new-evidence-chinese-tampering-supermicro-hardware-found-us-telecoms