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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        5 days 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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        5 days 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.