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Call for A UN Security Council Meeting Over Nerve Agent Attack – Russia
Russia’s UN ambassador has requested the United Nations Security Council convene a special meeting for Thursday afternoon amid an ongoing diplomatic feud with the UK that began in an English country town and has spread to include London’s allies around the world. A month after former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the British town of Salisbury, the United Kingdom and Russia remain locked in battle over who to blame. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said it was “highly likely” the attack was ordered by the Russian government, but the Kremlin has repeatedly denied the accusation. At one point, the Russians suggested the United Kingdom itself might have been involved in the poisoning. “In keeping with the principle, shared by us, that the use of chemical weapons by anyone and anywhere is inadmissible and must be investigated and punished … (we) ask you to convene an open session of the UN Security Council,” Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told a Security Council meeting on Wednesday, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
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Critical Flaw Leaves Thousands Of Cisco Switches Vulnerable To Hacking
Security researchers at Embedi have disclosed a critical vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, take full control over the vulnerable network equipment and intercept traffic. The stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2018-0171) resides due to improper validation of packet data in Smart Install Client, a plug-and-play configuration and image-management feature that helps administrators to deploy (client) network switches easily. Embedi has published technical details and Proof-of-Concept (PoC) code after Cisco today released patch updates to address this remote code execution vulnerability, which has been given a base Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 9.8 (critical). Researchers found a total of 8.5 million devices with the vulnerable port open on the Internet, leaving approximately 250,000 unpatched devices open to hackers. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker needs to send a crafted Smart Install message to an affected device on TCP port 4786, which is opened by default.
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Spy Chief Blasts ‘Western Hypocrisy’, Warns Of New Cold War – Russia and United States
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) head Sergei Naryshkin has cited George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” to accuse the West of ‘unprecedented hypocrisy’ and a Cold War mentality. Relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated rapidly since the March 4 poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Salisbury that the U.K. has blamed on Moscow. Russia rejects the allegations and has cast them as part of an elaborate Western plot to isolate Moscow. Speaking at an annual security conference in Moscow on Wednesday, SVR chief Naryshkin accused the West of resorting to “unprecedented hypocrisy to justify their hegemony.” “In fact all the norms that regulate intergovernmental relations are given precisely the opposite meanings,” he said, before citing Orwell’s “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.” “From there, it’s very close to the witches of Macbeth with their thesis that evil is virtue and virtue is evil,” he added, saying that Western military interventions accompanying statements on human rights were “absurd.” Naryshkin went on to say that the West was ready to erect a new Iron Curtain. “Countering the inexistent Russian threat has become fixation in Washington. It’s grown to such a scale and has acquired such silly features that we can speak about a return to the dark pages of the Cold War, “he warned.
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