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
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.
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.