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This is your Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch podcast.
Hey security folks, Ting here, coming to you live from my digital bunker with this week's "Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch." Grab your coffee because we've got a tsunami of Salt Typhoon activity to dissect!
The big headline this week: Chinese telecom hackers from Salt Typhoon have been busy bees, likely compromising both Digital Realty and Comcast. That's a data center giant and a media titan with over 51 million broadband customers and 8.1 million wireless users now potentially exposed. Not exactly small potatoes!
Despite some companies claiming they've kicked these hackers out, Senator Josh Hawley dropped a bombshell during Thursday's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing: these actors are still inside our systems. According to closed-door briefings, they've gained access to "lawful intercept" systems—those same systems used for legitimate law enforcement surveillance. The implications? As Hawley put it, "foreign actors basically have unlimited access to our voice messages, to our telephone calls."
Even President Trump and Vice President Vance have had their communications directly targeted. I'm not being dramatic when I say this is a full-blown national security crisis!
Mark Green, the House Committee on Homeland Security chairman, recently called the Salt and Volt Typhoon intrusions "some of the most sophisticated and sustained hacking operations we have ever seen" during DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's budget hearing. Green highlighted how these attacks have exposed significant gaps in our cybersecurity posture.
Industry expert Hanselman notes that these attackers already have substantial access to internet infrastructure and appear to be expanding their reach into monitoring activities within data center environments. This isn't just reconnaissance—it's establishing persistence.
The scope is staggering: reporting from just yesterday indicates over 70 organizations across multiple sectors were targeted between July 2024 and March 2025, including cybersecurity firm SentinelOne.
Looking at the strategic picture, these attacks aren't random. Back in January, we saw the Treasury Department hit, specifically targeting offices administering sanctions against Chinese companies. The pattern suggests Beijing is systematically targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to potentially disrupt military supply lines and hinder American response capabilities in case of conflict, particularly regarding Taiwan.
The House China Select Committee called this "yet another serious and deeply concerning example of the Chinese Communist Party targeting America's digital infrastructure."
My advice? Patch, segment, monitor. And remember that half a million cybersecurity positions remain unfilled across America. Maybe it's time to dust off that resume and join the digital frontlines. This is Ting signing off—stay vigilant, stay patched!
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
Hey security folks, Ting here, coming to you live from my digital bunker with this week's "Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch." Grab your coffee because we've got a tsunami of Salt Typhoon activity to dissect!
The big headline this week: Chinese telecom hackers from Salt Typhoon have been busy bees, likely compromising both Digital Realty and Comcast. That's a data center giant and a media titan with over 51 million broadband customers and 8.1 million wireless users now potentially exposed. Not exactly small potatoes!
Despite some companies claiming they've kicked these hackers out, Senator Josh Hawley dropped a bombshell during Thursday's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing: these actors are still inside our systems. According to closed-door briefings, they've gained access to "lawful intercept" systems—those same systems used for legitimate law enforcement surveillance. The implications? As Hawley put it, "foreign actors basically have unlimited access to our voice messages, to our telephone calls."
Even President Trump and Vice President Vance have had their communications directly targeted. I'm not being dramatic when I say this is a full-blown national security crisis!
Mark Green, the House Committee on Homeland Security chairman, recently called the Salt and Volt Typhoon intrusions "some of the most sophisticated and sustained hacking operations we have ever seen" during DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's budget hearing. Green highlighted how these attacks have exposed significant gaps in our cybersecurity posture.
Industry expert Hanselman notes that these attackers already have substantial access to internet infrastructure and appear to be expanding their reach into monitoring activities within data center environments. This isn't just reconnaissance—it's establishing persistence.
The scope is staggering: reporting from just yesterday indicates over 70 organizations across multiple sectors were targeted between July 2024 and March 2025, including cybersecurity firm SentinelOne.
Looking at the strategic picture, these attacks aren't random. Back in January, we saw the Treasury Department hit, specifically targeting offices administering sanctions against Chinese companies. The pattern suggests Beijing is systematically targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to potentially disrupt military supply lines and hinder American response capabilities in case of conflict, particularly regarding Taiwan.
The House China Select Committee called this "yet another serious and deeply concerning example of the Chinese Communist Party targeting America's digital infrastructure."
My advice? Patch, segment, monitor. And remember that half a million cybersecurity positions remain unfilled across America. Maybe it's time to dust off that resume and join the digital frontlines. This is Ting signing off—stay vigilant, stay patched!
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
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By Quiet. PleaseThis is your Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch podcast.
Hey security folks, Ting here, coming to you live from my digital bunker with this week's "Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch." Grab your coffee because we've got a tsunami of Salt Typhoon activity to dissect!
The big headline this week: Chinese telecom hackers from Salt Typhoon have been busy bees, likely compromising both Digital Realty and Comcast. That's a data center giant and a media titan with over 51 million broadband customers and 8.1 million wireless users now potentially exposed. Not exactly small potatoes!
Despite some companies claiming they've kicked these hackers out, Senator Josh Hawley dropped a bombshell during Thursday's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing: these actors are still inside our systems. According to closed-door briefings, they've gained access to "lawful intercept" systems—those same systems used for legitimate law enforcement surveillance. The implications? As Hawley put it, "foreign actors basically have unlimited access to our voice messages, to our telephone calls."
Even President Trump and Vice President Vance have had their communications directly targeted. I'm not being dramatic when I say this is a full-blown national security crisis!
Mark Green, the House Committee on Homeland Security chairman, recently called the Salt and Volt Typhoon intrusions "some of the most sophisticated and sustained hacking operations we have ever seen" during DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's budget hearing. Green highlighted how these attacks have exposed significant gaps in our cybersecurity posture.
Industry expert Hanselman notes that these attackers already have substantial access to internet infrastructure and appear to be expanding their reach into monitoring activities within data center environments. This isn't just reconnaissance—it's establishing persistence.
The scope is staggering: reporting from just yesterday indicates over 70 organizations across multiple sectors were targeted between July 2024 and March 2025, including cybersecurity firm SentinelOne.
Looking at the strategic picture, these attacks aren't random. Back in January, we saw the Treasury Department hit, specifically targeting offices administering sanctions against Chinese companies. The pattern suggests Beijing is systematically targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to potentially disrupt military supply lines and hinder American response capabilities in case of conflict, particularly regarding Taiwan.
The House China Select Committee called this "yet another serious and deeply concerning example of the Chinese Communist Party targeting America's digital infrastructure."
My advice? Patch, segment, monitor. And remember that half a million cybersecurity positions remain unfilled across America. Maybe it's time to dust off that resume and join the digital frontlines. This is Ting signing off—stay vigilant, stay patched!
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
Hey security folks, Ting here, coming to you live from my digital bunker with this week's "Cyber Sentinel: Beijing Watch." Grab your coffee because we've got a tsunami of Salt Typhoon activity to dissect!
The big headline this week: Chinese telecom hackers from Salt Typhoon have been busy bees, likely compromising both Digital Realty and Comcast. That's a data center giant and a media titan with over 51 million broadband customers and 8.1 million wireless users now potentially exposed. Not exactly small potatoes!
Despite some companies claiming they've kicked these hackers out, Senator Josh Hawley dropped a bombshell during Thursday's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing: these actors are still inside our systems. According to closed-door briefings, they've gained access to "lawful intercept" systems—those same systems used for legitimate law enforcement surveillance. The implications? As Hawley put it, "foreign actors basically have unlimited access to our voice messages, to our telephone calls."
Even President Trump and Vice President Vance have had their communications directly targeted. I'm not being dramatic when I say this is a full-blown national security crisis!
Mark Green, the House Committee on Homeland Security chairman, recently called the Salt and Volt Typhoon intrusions "some of the most sophisticated and sustained hacking operations we have ever seen" during DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's budget hearing. Green highlighted how these attacks have exposed significant gaps in our cybersecurity posture.
Industry expert Hanselman notes that these attackers already have substantial access to internet infrastructure and appear to be expanding their reach into monitoring activities within data center environments. This isn't just reconnaissance—it's establishing persistence.
The scope is staggering: reporting from just yesterday indicates over 70 organizations across multiple sectors were targeted between July 2024 and March 2025, including cybersecurity firm SentinelOne.
Looking at the strategic picture, these attacks aren't random. Back in January, we saw the Treasury Department hit, specifically targeting offices administering sanctions against Chinese companies. The pattern suggests Beijing is systematically targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to potentially disrupt military supply lines and hinder American response capabilities in case of conflict, particularly regarding Taiwan.
The House China Select Committee called this "yet another serious and deeply concerning example of the Chinese Communist Party targeting America's digital infrastructure."
My advice? Patch, segment, monitor. And remember that half a million cybersecurity positions remain unfilled across America. Maybe it's time to dust off that resume and join the digital frontlines. This is Ting signing off—stay vigilant, stay patched!
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta