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    FCC orders telcos to sharpen up security after Salt Typhoon chaos

    The FCC has decided to impose new, more stringent requirements on telecom carriers to secure their networks in response to the recent Salt Typhoon threat campaign targeting the industry. Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman at the FCC, said the body has taken action to ensure the nation’s communication systems are safeguarded against ongoing cyber threats, including state-sponsored attacks from sophisticated groups. “In…

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    FCC orders telecoms to secure their networks after Salt Tyhpoon hacks

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered U.S. telecommunications carriers to secure their networks following last year’s Salt Typhoon security breaches. Today’s action comes after FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in early December that the FCC would act “urgently” to require U.S. carriers to secure their systems from cyberattacks. “We now have a choice to make. We can turn the…

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    UK cyber experts on red alert after Salt Typhoon attacks on US telcos

    Cyber experts have warned UK telecommunications firms and the wider industry must be ready for a barrage of cyber attacks as the Salt Typhoon hacker group claims yet more victims in the US. Three further companies based in the US, Charter Communications, Consolidate Communications, and Windstream, have been added to the list of telecoms organizations compromised by the Chinese state-affiliated…

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    AT&T and Verizon say networks secure after Salt Typhoon breach

    AT&T and Verizon confirmed they were breached in a massive Chinese espionage campaign targeting telecom carriers worldwide but said the hackers have now been evicted from their networks. “We have not detected threat actor activity in Verizon’s network for some time, and after considerable work addressing this incident, we can report that Verizon has contained the activities associated with this…

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    Wyden proposes bill to secure US telecoms after Salt Typhoon hacks

    U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon announced a new bill to secure the networks of American telecommunications companies breached by Salt Typhoon Chinese state hackers earlier this year. Wyden’s “Secure American Communications Act” will order the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue binding cybersecurity rules and implement the security requirements demanded since 1994 by legislation that instructs telecom providers to…

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    Salt Typhoon hacker group recorded conversations of ‘very senior’ US political figures

    A senior Whitehouse security official has confirmed that Chinese hackers were able to record telephone conversations of “very senior” American political figures. Anne Neuberger, President Biden’s national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology, provided an update to reporters at the Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain on the extent of a campaign targeting telcos in the region. The campaign…

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    Salt Typhoon hacked telcos in dozens of countries

    ​Chinese state hackers, known as Salt Typhoon, have breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said today. During a Wednesday press briefing, the White House official told reporters that these breaches include a total of eight telecom firms in the United States, with only four previously known. While these attacks have been…

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    Salt Typhoon hackers backdoor telcos with new GhostSpider malware

    The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Salt Typhoon has been observed utilizing a new “GhostSpider” backdoor in attacks against telecommunication service providers. The backdoor was discovered by Trend Micro, which has been monitoring Salt Typhoon’s attacks against critical infrastructure and government organizations worldwide. Along with GhostSpider, Trend Micro discovered that the threat group also uses a previously documented Linux backdoor named…

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    Best Electric Salt and Pepper Grinders

    For this guide, we ordered four popular salt and pepper grinders and put them to use in a busy family household. We measured how hard (or easy) they were to fill, how much time and effort it took to grind the salt and pepper, how even the grind was, how noisy each set was, and how comfortable they were to…

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