Suit against Rachel Maddow tossed by Judge per CA SLAPP Law

I really need a political blog, but I'm stashing this here.  Data Security implication of this article? Oh, I don't know:

How about Right-Wing News Organization (One American News Network),  favored by Trump,  is openly employing actual Russian Propagandists, suing A-list journalists who report it, and getting SLAPPed by a judge for trying to use the courts to hide it.

They didn't try to refute that her statement wasn't true, unfortunately, but let's see what MSNBC does about it. In case it hits the bit bucket:

"OAN sued after Maddow offered her commentary on a Daily Beast article that said the news network employed a "Kremlin-paid journalist." The journalist, Kristian Rouz, had been working for both OAN and the Kremlin-owned Sputnik, the latter of which was determined to be a participant in Russia's 2016 election interference effort."

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200528/14370244602/california-anti-slapp-law-gives-rachel-maddow-early-exit-conservative-news-networks-bogus-libel-lawsuit.shtml

Filed under: Information Operations, Nutjobs, Rachael Maddow, MSNBC, Cyberwar

So is there any question we're in an active Cyberwar?

It's bad enough that we're in the middle of a global pandemic, but the Chinese are actively attacking our government and commercial organizations.  The good thing is that they're being called out by FireEye and shedding some light on their antics.

Beginning this year, FireEye observed Chinese actor APT41 carry out one of the broadest campaigns by a Chinese cyber espionage actor we have observed in recent years. Between January 20 and March 11, FireEye observed APT41 attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler/ADC, Cisco routers, and Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central at over 75 FireEye customers. Countries we’ve seen targeted include Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, UK and USA. The following industries were targeted: Banking/Finance, Construction, Defense Industrial Base, Government, Healthcare, High Technology, Higher Education, Legal, Manufacturing, Media, Non-profit, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate, Telecommunications, Transportation, Travel, and Utility. It’s unclear if APT41 scanned the Internet and attempted exploitation en masse or selected a subset of specific organizations to target, but the victims appear to be more targeted in nature.

 https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/03/apt41-initiates-global-intrusion-campaign-using-multiple-exploits.html

More information about APT41 can be found on the MITRE ATT&CK site
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0096/