For those of you old enough to remember party lines when using your telephones, you could not just pick up the phone and start talking, as there were likely two others on the same ‘line,’ until those talking would hang up their phones. So, you didn’t want to begin sharing any personal information with these two strangers. A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit shared by multiple telephone service subscribers. Fast forward to 2024. The US
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China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon (FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor) breached US broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data.
See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/hotels-under-attack
According to the Wall Street Journal, which reported the news exclusively, the security breach poses a major national security risk. The WSJ states that the compromise remained undisclosed due to possible impact on na
