Security: FOSS Updates, Russia and China Having Fun With NSA Back Doors, SDDC, Firefox Issues Fixes

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Security updates for Tuesday
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Russian cyberspies are using one hell of a clever Microsoft Exchange backdoor [Ed: Microsoft has put NSA back doors in everything. Even the servers of the type Hillary Clinton was running. Microsoft Exchange servers getting cracked isn't an accident but a design choice.]
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Chinese hackers were using NSA malware a year before Shadow Brokers leak [Ed: NSA-Microsoft collusion helped China rather than USA]
The group --tracked by cyber-security vendors under names such as Buckeye, APT3, Gothic Panda, TG-011, and UPS-- is infamous after US authorities charged three hackers in late 2017.
The US alleged that the three men were behind a cyber-security company named Boyusec that was acting as a front for the Chinese Ministry of State Security and had hacked western companies such as Moody's Analytics, Siemens, and Trimble.
The group was considered advanced among the spectrum of Chinese-based and government-backed APTs (advanced persistent threats), having access to its own custom tools and zero-days.
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Build up your SDDC security with 3 components
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Firefox issues fixes for extensions problem
The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation that produces the open-source browser Firefox, has released updates to fix the issue with the browser that prevented users from downloading extensions and also rendered any existing extension unusable.
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