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It has taken just three days for the Bloomberg claims about China spying on US firms through the implant of chips on server mainboards sold by the US firm, Supermicro, to lose most of their sheen.

A former member of the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations unit has been sentenced to 5½ years in jail, followed by three years of supervised release, for what the US Justice Department has characterised as "willfull retention of classified national defence information".

A newly discovered threat actor or advanced persistent threat, that is targeting government and private sector organisations in the Middle East, is using NSA exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers in April last year as part of its arsenal of threats, the security firm Symantec claims.