Chinese Hackers Hid in a Canadian Telecom for Months—Unpatched | iPhone in Canada
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A new federal government report says that Chinese government-backed hackers—known in the cybersecurity world as Salt Typhoon—broke into the network of a Canadian telecom company earlier this year. Chinese hackers used a known flaw in Cisco equipment (called CVE-2023-20198) to snoop around, change settings, and potentially spy on data flowing through the system, sometime before
      • quaff@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        If that were the case: perfect. More words & content for the article. Editors love that. I want them shamed.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        They’ve all had major screw ups at one time or another.

        The bigger the system, the more points of failure there are, and the fewer people there are who understand the “big picture” of the thing well enough to prevent odd problems, or fix it.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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    22 hours ago

    We need to nationalize a portion of the big 3 telecoms for the security of our communications. They cannot be trusted to keep our data secure.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      They where so deep into the American telecoms it would be naive to think they where not on ours. I mean they where in the system that was created to backdoor the cellular network in America. I think it’s part of the standard so can’t see why Canada would have been different.

    • non_burglar@lemmy.world
      71·
      21 hours ago

      While agree that comms should be a nationally controlled resource, the procurement space for that equipment would be just as vulnerable under government contract as under the big 3.