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Trump Disbands Cybersecurity Board Investigating Massive Chinese Phone System Hack ! [1]
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Date: 2025-02-08
Just was searching for something else and this came up. More secret CRAP from the Rump encampment that we didn’t hear much about!
Original article here…
From the seems-bad,-bob department:
Thu, Jan 23rd 2025 01:42pm - Mike Masnick
For all the hype and warnings about how TikTok is clearly a “national security threat” from China, the Trump administration has effectively kneecapped the investigation into one of the most serious cybersecurity breaches in US history — a genuine, proven threat to national security. In what Team Trump probably thinks is a move to “destroy the deep state,” they’ve actually disbanded the government review board tasked with getting to the bottom of this unprecedented hack of our phone system by China.
We’re still nowhere near understanding just how bad the Chinese hack of our phone system was. The incident that was only discovered last fall involved the Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon, which used the US’s CALEA phone wiretapping system as a backdoor to gain incredible, unprecedented access to much of the US’s phone system “for months or longer.”
As details come out, the extent of the hackers’ access has become increasingly alarming. It is reasonable to call it the worst hack in US history.
Soon after it was discovered, Homeland Security tasked the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) to lead an investigation into the hack to uncover what allowed it to happen and assess how bad it really was. The CSRB was established by Joe Biden to improve the government’s cybersecurity in the face of global cybersecurity attacks on our infrastructure and was made up of a mix of government and private sector cybersecurity experts.”
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