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(Cybersecurity) Four zero-days in Microsoft Exchange actively exploited in the wild (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates for all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that fix four zero-day flaws. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115194/hacking/microsoft-exchange-zero-days.html

(Cybersecurity) Google fixes Critical Remote Code Execution issue in Android System component (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Google addressed 37 vulnerabilities with the release of the Android security updates for March 2021, including a critical flaw in the System component. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115189/mobile-2/google-android-rce-2.html

(Cybersecurity) Pwn20wnd released the unc0ver v 6.0 jailbreaking tool (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The popular jailbreaking tool called “unc0ver” now supports iOS 14.3 and earlier releases, and is able to unlock almost every iPhone device. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115182/mobile-2/jailbreaking-tool-unc0ver-6.html

(Cybersecurity) French multinational dairy Lactalis hit by a cyber attack (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini French multinational dairy products corporation Lactalis discloses cyberattack, but claimed that had no evidence of a data breach. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/115173/hacking/lactalis-cyber-attack.html

(Belarus) Sochi Summit Contra the West’s Belarus Policies (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka landed in Sochi, Russia, on Friday, February 19, and left on Tuesday, February 23. https://jamestown.org/program/sochi-summit-contra-the-wests-belarus-policies/

(Russia/Arctic) Russia’s New ‘Arctic Offensive’: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs? (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin On February 1, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving the launch of six large investment projects in the Arctic that...

(Russia/Africa) Moscow Expanding Diplomatic Contacts With Less Prominent Countries in Africa (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Russia’s involvement in Africa over the last decade has attracted attention particularly when it has involved Moscow’s use of private military companies to...

(Pandemic) A Guide to Global COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts (CFR)

Claire Felter Only a year after the new coronavirus emerged, the first vaccines to protect against it are being administered. But production challenges, vaccine nationalism,...

(USA) During the pandemic, ‘lost’ education jobs aren’t what they seem (Brookings)

Chad Aldeman Throughout 2020, media accounts were filled with stories about private sector job losses, layoffs, and bankruptcies. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), private sector...

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