Jan 2025 Newsletter from Seiretto.
  https://www.seiretto.co.uk/

In this newsletter:

 - International infowars - is China winning?
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Proof of age to access adult websites - this is never going to work.
 - GIFT card QR code fraud.
 - Major hospital closed due to another hack.


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International infowars - is China winning?
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Funds to win the infowars will continue to flow towards China.  Due to the rise in e-vehicle costs many will turn to Chinese e-cars as they are often upto 6 times cheaper than the usual brands.  By 2030 it looks increasingly likely China will be the leading force in the  World, read more:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/20/china_taiwan_wargames/


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Proof of age to access adult websites - this is never going to work.
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Preventing access to adult websites is never going to work, with the use of VPNs and/or other available methods.

Yet the UK will attempt again in July:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/ofcom_age_verification/


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GIFT card QR code fraud
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I think we have all heard about the parking QR code fraud - replacing the original with the hackers QR code. Well now they are using a similar method to hack gift cards:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/gift-card-fraud.html



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Major hospital closed due to another hack
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Hospitals have been targeted, or more likely fallen foul of exploits, which have disabled their systems several times this year.

This recent hack to the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust had closed the hospital.  Makes you wonder what all the clerical staff are then doing?  And what about all the doctors on their inflated salaries?  Time to go off to the private hospitals do some more on the side... Leaving the nurses more time to play with their phones!

This is costing us all, its no wonder the NHS can not cope - nepotism and the poor technical abilities of a good deal of those in IT dept. will finish off this organisation; along with management decisions which often delay NECESSARY updates to systems.  Result: terabytes of our data being leaked over and over again.

Read more, and be sure to check the comments section:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/third_major_cyber_incident_declared/?td=rt-3a
 

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