Bundeswehr's classified meetings found online – DW – 05/05/2024
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The German military confirmed earlier reports of a vulnerability affecting the Webex software it uses for online meetings. In March, a leaked German military meeting was publicized by Russian media.
      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        To be fair if I were in charge of procuring anything for the army "idiot proof" is way up there on the list of requirements

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      the flaw was that password-protected meetings could be joined without a password when joining in a specific way https://threatpost.com/cisco-webex-flaw-lets-unauthenticated-users-join-private-online-meetings/152191/

  • Faresh@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I wonder if anyone has been backing up those meetings. Would love to have a look at them.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Damn it, Russia! You should know better! Keeping the secret that the Allies had broken Enimga was a huge intelligence coup and you just give away the game now?

  • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    German Rearmament solidarity Garbage OPSEC

    21st century version of compromising encryption by signing off every message with "Heil Hitler".

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Amazing that Germany inherited the institutional knowledge and skills of the fucking Stasi and decided to go back to its old Abwehr days instead.

  • rio [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Remember how the first excuse was “they were in asia”

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    oops! Using proprietary American Cisco software!

    Add this to the heap of reasons why Germany has the Sovereign Tech Fund and is moving to open source.

    Who's to say this wasn't maliciously planted by an employee acting on behalf of the US government?