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    Oct 22, 2025, 04:52 AM
    We are more vulnerable than we know
    Are these incidents related ? Somehow I think so.

    Last week it was disclosed by cybersecurity company F5 that they were hacked by the Chinese .

    Breach at US-based cybersecurity provider F5 blamed on China, Bloomberg News reports

    Users are still vulnerable
    F5 breach exposes 262,000 BIG-IP systems worldwide

    Monday morning Amazon services went down . It took all day to restore services .

    Major AWS outage takes down web services like Snapchat and Ring

    And it wasn't just "leading games, publishers, streaming platforms" as the article suggests . Major companies including financial institutions were affected .
    Amazon outage: Every website knocked offline by the huge AWS outage | TechRadar

    This comes at the same time that the Chinese are accusing the US NSA of hacking " to steal sensitive information from devices of the National Time Service Center"
    China Accuses US of Cyberattack on National Time Center - SecurityWeek

    Experts blame the Amazon issue to an IT issue rather than malicious intent .

    I don't believe in coincidences .

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