What Salt Typhoon Shows About the Cyber Power of China’s Spy Agency

nytimes.com, Biztoc.com

Hunt for RedNovember: Beijing hacked critical orgs in year-long snooping campaign

Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com

Not to be confused with all the other reports of Chinese intruders on US networks that came to light this week RedNovember, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberspy group, targeted government and critical private-sector networks around the globe between June 2024 a…

Drone activity confirmed at multiple Denmark airports

BBC News

The incidents come after the country's Copenhagen airport was forced to close earlier this week due to a drone incursion.

Flushable wipes and Iran: Water treatment facility adds cyber attacks to worry list

Jenna McLaughlin, NPR

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.

The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Pablos Holman — One of the Scariest Hackers I’ve Ever Met (#827)

Tim Ferriss, Tim.blog

Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Pablos Holman (@pablos), a hacker and inventor and the bestselling author of Deep Future: Creating Technology that Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. Previously, Pablos worked on spaceships at Blue…

Trump GOP Redirected Essential Cybersecurity Funding To Give Rich Assholes More Tax Cuts

Karl Bode, Techdirt

Long before the great TikTok moral panic of 2021 to 2024, you might recall that numerous members of Congress spent a solid decade freaking about another Chinese company: Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei. The argument, made without much in the way of pub…

SailPoint, HCLTech Partner to Deliver AI-Enabled Identity Security Solutions for Enterprises

Maham Fatima, Yahoo Entertainment

SailPoint Inc. (NASDAQ:SAIL) is one of the best IPO tech stocks to buy now. On September 4, SailPoint and HCLTech announced a partnership to provide advanced...

US teachers, targeted by far-right in doxxing after Charlie Kirk’s death

Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English

Right-wing activists are targeting teachers and workers online for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.

Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

Nikita Mazurov, The Intercept

The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry. The post Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency appeared first on The Intercept.

Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn’t Spy on Americans. Here’s What He’s Not Saying.

Sam Biddle, The Intercept

Documents from Edward Snowden published by The Intercept in 2017 show the NSA’s use of Palantir technology. The post Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn’t Spy on Americans. Here’s What He’s Not Saying. appeared first on The Intercept.

ICE Has Spyware Now

Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Wired

Plus: An AI chatbot system is linked to a widespread hack, details emerge of a US plan to plant a spy device in North Korea, your job’s security training isn’t working, and more.

FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com

Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FB…

Senator Wyden Slams U.S. Judiciary For Incompetent, Nontransparent Cybersecurity Practices

Karl Bode, Techdirt

Late last year, eight major U.S. telecoms were the victim of a massive intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for more than a year. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent a year rooting around the ISP netw…

DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud

Brandon Vigliarolo, Theregister.com

Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it A Social Security Administration employee has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has put the records of every …

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

Geoff Brumfiel, NPR

A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

Zscaler and CrowdStrike (CRWD) Team Up to Boost AI-Powered Cybersecurity

Ghazal Ahmed, Yahoo Entertainment

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On August 20, cloud security leader Zscaler, Inc. announced an...

UK Reportedly Backs Off Plan To Force Apple To Unlock Encrypted iCloud Data

staff@bgr.com (José Adorno), BGR

After the UK ordered Apple to offer a backdoor, security experts raised concerns that such a feature could lead to hackers exploiting it.

Apple won’t have to build an iCloud backdoor for UK access to American data

Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac

The UK has retreated from a controversial order that would have forced Apple to provide a backdoor to American users’ data, according to a statement from US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Here are the details. more…

SentinelOne (S) Expands Mimecast Partnership to Advance Human-Centric Cybersecurity

Habib Ur Rehman, Yahoo Entertainment

SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S is one of the best mid cap AI stocks to buy right now. SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S) is one of the best midcap AI stocks to buy right ...

Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls

Lily Hay Newman, Wired

Plus: ICE agents accidentally add a random person to a sensitive group chat, Norwegian intelligence blames the Kremlin for hacking a dam, and new facial recognition vans roam the UK.

PACER Hacked By Malicious Entities, Briefly Turning It Into A Useful Source For Federal Court Documents

Tim Cushing, Techdirt

The US Court system’s electronic filing front-end has always been a mess. Not only is it prohibitively expensive for most casual users, it’s prohibitively dysfunctional even for power users. Whoever isn’t discouraged by the outdated front end will be just as …

CL-STA-0969 Installs Covert Malware in Telecom Networks During 10-Month Espionage Campaign

info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News), Internet

Telecommunications organizations in Southeast Asia have been targeted by a state-sponsored threat actor known as CL-STA-0969 to facilitate remote control over compromised networks. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it observed multiple incidents in the region, …

CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when

Jessica Lyons, Theregister.com

The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…

CISA Cannot Drift: Will Sean Plankey Be The Captain To Lock The Wheel?

Emil Sayegh, Contributor, Emil Sayegh, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/, Forbes

CISA faces a dangerous leadership gap as cyber threats escalate. Sean Plankey’s nomination offers focus and experience to secure America’s critical infrastructure.