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Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

There is no such thing as cyber security. The only choice is more security or less security, as the recent hack of the National Security Agency demonstrates.

Hackers stole from NSA a cyber weapon, which has been used in attacks (at time of writing) on 150 countries, shutting down elements of the British National Health Service, the Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica, automakers Renault and Nissan, Russia’s Interior Ministry, Federal Express, the energy company PetroChina, and many more.

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app owned by Facebook Inc., suffered a widespread outage on Tuesday just as it was rolling out a new feature.

The outage occurred in the early afternoon, with users first reporting around 1:09 ET, according to Downdetector.com, a website that monitors outages on popular social media and web-based platforms. As of 4 p.m. ET, it was mostly resolved.

Predictably, users took to Twitter to commiserate and troll the social-media giant.

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Source: Townhall.com

While a second variant of the WannaCry(pt) ransomware (based on NSA's EternalBlue exploit) was spreading across the globe yesterday, The FT reports criminal hacking groups have repurposed a second classified cyber weapon stolen from US spies and have made it available on the so-called dark web.

The Exponential Growth of Insecurity

Paul Craig Roberts

There is no such thing as cyber security. The only choice is more security or less security, as the recent hack of the National Security Agency demonstrates.

Hackers stole from NSA a cyber weapon, which has been used in attacks (at time of writing) on 150 countries, shutting down elements of the British National Health Service, the Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica, automakers Renault and Nissan, Russia’s Interior Ministry, Federal Express, the energy company PetroChina, and many more.