Quick notes: Cyberwar | Scania bribes...

• Did China just wake us up to cyberwar? “Our defensive preparedness is almost non-existent. When Kudankulam happened, it was not the govt that went out to find who was behind it. It was a bunch of private hackers who did. Whatever capability exists in India is mostly outside the govt”.... As for offensive cyberwar capabilities, “If you can’t even defend your own networks and assets, what offensive capabilities are you likely to have”.
  
  India still groping in the dark: At least one connection opened by Chinese state-sponsored hackers into the network system of an Indian port was still active. “There is a need to guard smaller companies that are part of the grid. Because if one is hacked, entire systems can be compromised.”



• Chinese cyberattack on Microsoft morphs into global crisis: The Chinese initially targeted high value intelligence targets in the U.S, but it has changed since. “They went to town and started doing mass exploitation -- indiscriminate attacks compromising exchange servers, literally around the world, with no regard to purpose or size or industry.”
  
  Chinese hackers targeted SolarWinds customers in parallel with Russian op.



• Sweden's Scania admits to bribing officials in India: Scania paid bribes to win bus contracts in India in seven different states between 2013 and 2016



• India is the capital of the groundwater crisis of the world:

This figure shows how India is the capital of the groundwater crisis of the world.

More than 1 meter/year declines in many areas. We need to talk more about this. #Retweet pic.twitter.com/dfsCt97TIp

— Groundwater Resources of India (@IndHydrogeology) February 28, 2021




• India wants Chabahar Port in INSTC: India, Russia and Iran had jointly conceived the INSTC (International North South Transport Corridor) in 2000 as a multi-modal transportation corridor, which would link the India Ocean and the Persian Gulf with the Caspian Sea through Iran and move onward to North Europe via Russia... New Delhi is concerned over the prospect of Islamabad and Beijing expanding footprints on Chabahar Port if it is connected with Gwadar Port in Pakistan as proposed by Iran.



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• Malaysia: Friendly and tolerant country where its three major ethnic communities live in harmony.