UK proposes 14-year prison terms for undersea cable sabotage
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What happened
The source document aggregates five cybersecurity and national-security reports: proposed UK criminal penalties for undersea cable sabotage; a potential patient-data breach at Quest Diagnostics; a Toronto Crime Stoppers data breach and operational pause; eMudhra’s withdrawal from certificate services after exposure of an insecure private key; and Microsoft’s attribution of ConnectWise supply-chain attacks to a Chinese state-aligned actor using automated AI-assisted tooling. The most severe issues involve compromise of trust infrastructure and software supply chains, while several incidents may
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- Yes
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