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
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.
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.