Yeah, one of my parents likely isn’t getting anything from theirs, but the other did, and I’m sure they’ll have it all spent. My wife’s family is the same; the generational wealth ends with her parents. We’re fucked, as a whole generation.
I’d ask him how his values were so easily changed by a comedian and his roving troupe of rude boys.
What movie is this?
Yeah, security is not just operating expense, it also slows down revenue generation. Bad combo for presenting to the C suite.
The problem, as I see it, is that telcos have simply way too many silos and technologies in use to even begin to understand their entire attack surface. I don’t think the Lawful Intercept functions on the devices that are likely compromised are even capable of sending logs to a SIEM. It’s a black box that only a small subset of people at the telco work with and law enforcement has essentially automated access to it once a warrant (or warrantless) wiretap commences.
What if the bespoke hack the CSO is describing is something like backward serialization of a circuit emulation method or some other tunneling technology leveraging a legacy protocol? There’s all kinds of crazy shit in telco networks with lots of capabilities, lots of which go unused. The folks securing those networks do not understand the devices and protocols well enough to ask the right questions, probe the right directions, get the right people to do the right things…
Combine all that with what’s typically an adversarial relationship between security teams and the people building and operating the network and you get a nice shit soufflé waiting to be eaten by APTs.
It was reported long ago that foreign adversaries had compromised telco and financial networks so deeply that they would likely never be eradicated. I don’t think the situation has improved much.
Why didn’t we think of this??
That stuff has been removed from major telco networks. This was the Lawful Intercept functionality being hacked on some sort of device.
It is always, ALWAYS projection with these assholes.
I’ve tried really hard to put myself into the headspace of someone who would wear this and I can’t. It’s really weird.
Eh, lofty words. Your best bet is to move. This isn’t like the old civil war times. Most people want this, apparently.
They are choosing it because Theo Von / Shane Gillis / Tony Hinchcilff / Dana White / Joe Rogan / UFC / Russian propaganda / random MAGA streamers.
Let me clarify my statement: America is over. There is nothing worth getting hurt over. Most people here seem to want what is to come. I’m planning to cut my losses if it starts coming to fruition and move somewhere more progressive.
There’s nothing worth rioting for.
What new level of hell is this?
The article described the hackers having access to what’s called Lawful Intercept capabilities. In the telecom equipment I’ve worked with, this takes the form of voice call tapping, full packet capture of data, or just a capture of connections made.
If they had unfettered access to this functionality, they could have spied on anyone at length. Government officials, C suite people at companies…anyone.
Holy shit, what dirt does Putin have on Elon?
Why isn’t this system air gapped from the internet?
This will surely plug all the holes.
Can’t wait for health and life insurance companies to secretly start making decisions about coverage based on this leaked data.