US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants

Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also urge federal regulators to hold these companies accountable for their infosec practices - or lack thereof …

[DS999]

YOU NEED BETTER SECURITY!

OR HEADS WILL ROLL!

But you can't comprise the ease with which law enforcement can obtain wiretaps in the process of securing things, or heads will also roll!

[An_Old_Dog]

In D-n-D-ish Terms ...

King: "You, Wizard! How could my treasure chamber have been robbed?! You used your wizardly arts to lock this door, and you are a 99th-level wizard! How could anyone overcome the power of your spell??!"

Wizard: "Your Majesty, I draw your attention to this scrap of parchment nailed to the door, and the words upon it reading, 'Password = xyzzy.'"

King: "But the guards have to get in. You don't expect a, well, frankly, a tiny-brained, muscle-mountain of a guard to memorize the password, do you?"

[Anonymous Coward]

You must stop other people using the backdoor we forced you to install.

Is this not irony? They might want to consider this when (not if) they get their grubby little hands on end to end encryption services.

[Doctor Syntax]

It should be a two step process:

1. If it doesn't need to be connected to the internet disconnect it.

2. If it does need to be connected disconnect it and devise a workaround.

[Tron]

LOL.

Government demands a backdoor making the service insecure and removing users' privacy.

Other governments use it.

Amusing and ironic. Perhaps the US government can be prosecuted for 'enabling'.

They still want to do the same for online encryption of course. Governments do not learn from their mistakes because they believe that they are perfect and have never made any. Everything was someone else's fault.

'Led by donkeys'. All of us.

[Brave Coward]

Re: LOL.

'Led by donkeys'. All of us.

Well, as far as I can see, some of US is lead by elephants, isn't it?

[JustAnotherDistro]

Governments

All governments, not just some, secure their power at home, first and foremost. After that they can worry about foreign threats.

[mikecpu]

Russian hackers are jealous.

Russian hacker leader: DId you see they are blaming the telecom hack into the spy network on a Chinese group?

Russian Hacker number 2: No, that was really a USA hacker group trying to spoof the breach on us Russian hackers like they always do, but we fooled them, we spoofed our internet identity to make it look like the Chinese were behind it.

Russian leader: Very good comrade, here's your bitcoin payment that cannot be tracked.