Cybersecurity, Russia, China Hacks and 5 Eyes

King Arthur asked sidd:

you see these?
China motherboard hack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

and Russia wifi attack
Britain and the Netherlands on Thursday accused the Russian GRU military intelligence agency of a series of global cybercrimes, including attacks against the international chemical weapons watchdog
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/the-latest-dutch-gru-targeted-chemical-weapons-watchdog/2018/10/04/5664a72a-c7c1-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.e626ce36e615

sidd replied:
all the companies involved are denying the bloomberg article
but they would …

NSA intercepts equipment and bugs it too … Snowden told us that

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

as far as the russian attacks go, they are small time compared to giant vacuum NSA operates under the five eyes agreement:

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.

In spite of continued controversy over its methods, the Five Eyes relationship remains one of the most comprehensive known espionage alliances in history

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