Hacker News with Generative AI: Telecom

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs (arstechnica.com)
It's shaping up to be a big year for telecom mergers, and it appears the Federal Communications Commission is eager to approve the deals—as long as companies involved drop any DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies criticized by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

Telecom, Politics, Regulation

114 points by rntn 4 days ago | 136 comments

Furious at FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates (arstechnica.com)
Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn't going to take it anymore—if by "it" you mean "having to offer lower phone call rates to incarcerated inmates."

Law Enforcement, Telecom, Arkansas, Prison, Inmates

12 points by voxadam 66 days ago | 1 comments

Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers (x.company)
Today, we’re announcing that the Taara team is graduating from The Moonshot Factory to become an independent company.

Internet, Startups, Technology, Telecom, Alphabet

304 points by tadeegan 67 days ago | 271 comments

The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon (soatok.blog)
Towards the end of last year, we learned that a group (allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government, referred to as “Salt Typhoon”) breached T-Mobile and other telecommunications companies and caused all sorts of havoc.

Cybersecurity, Telecom, China, Government, Hacking

312 points by zdw 73 days ago | 207 comments

LaLiga pushes Spanish ISPs to Block IP Addresses, Affecting Businesses and Users (systemadministration.net)
A new wave of indiscriminate IP blocking by major Spanish telecom operators has sparked widespread concern over internet freedom and transparency.

Internet Freedom, Censorship, Spain, Telecom

4 points by Funes- 89 days ago | 0 comments

More victims of China's Salt Typhoon crew emerge: Telcos now hit via Cisco bugs (theregister.com)
China's Salt Typhoon spy crew exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices to compromise at least seven devices linked to global telecom providers and other orgs, in addition to its previous victim count.

Cybersecurity, China, Cisco, Telecom, Espionage

9 points by rntn 99 days ago | 1 comments

FCC net neutrality rules dead again as appeals court sides with Big Telco (theregister.com)
The prolonged fight for net neutrality in America has shifted once again, with the FCC's resurrected regulations struck down by a panel of appeals court judges today.

Net Neutrality, Telecom, Law, Government, United States

36 points by chrisandchris 138 days ago | 6 comments

U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions (krebsonsecurity.com)
Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon.

Cybercrime, Security, Law Enforcement, Telecom

289 points by mmsc 143 days ago | 214 comments

Congress funds removal of Chinese telecom gear as feds probe home router risks (msn.com)

Congress, Telecom, Cybersecurity, National Security, China

4 points by jnord 155 days ago | 1 comments

Why did China hack the world's phone networks? (theguardian.com)
Chinese hackers have breached dozens of telecommunications companies around the world. The breach, christened Salt Typhoon by Microsoft cybersecurity researchers, has afforded the cybercriminals unprecedented access not only to information on who has been texting or calling whom and when, but also on the contents of some messages, a much higher technical bar to clear in a cyber-attack.

Cybersecurity, China, Telecom, Hacking, International Relations

9 points by bookofjoe 162 days ago | 0 comments

Telecom industry 'think tank' tries to smear community owned broadband (techdirt.com)
We’ve noted for decades how the U.S. broadband sector is a mess thanks to corruption and unchecked monopoly power working tirelessly to undermine U.S. telecom competition.

Telecom, Broadband, Competition, Monopoly, Corruption

44 points by hn_acker 168 days ago | 5 comments

White House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese (cnn.com)

Cybersecurity, China, Telecom, Government, Hacking

11 points by iamricks 170 days ago | 6 comments

US recommends encrypted messaging as Chinese hackers linger in telecom networks (arstechnica.com)
A US government security official urged Americans to use encrypted messaging as major telecom companies struggle to evict Chinese hackers from their networks.

Cybersecurity, Government Recommendations, China, Telecom, Hacking

13 points by eysquared 170 days ago | 1 comments

China's Hacking Reached Deep into U.S. Telecoms (nytimes.com)
China’s recent breach of the innermost workings of the U.S. telecommunications system reached far deeper than the Biden administration has described, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Thursday, with hackers able to listen in on telephone conversations and read text messages.

Cybersecurity, China, Telecom, United States, Government

29 points by bookofjoe 181 days ago | 2 comments

CEO of Telecom QLink pleads guilty to USD$100M fraud (justice.gov)
MIAMI –Issa Asad, 51, of Southwest Ranches, Fla., and Q Link Wireless LLC, of Dania Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud and commit offenses against the United States in connection with a years-long scheme to steal over $100 million from a celebrated federal program providing discounted phone service to people in need.

Telecom, Fraud, Law Enforcement, Business

5 points by novaleaf 213 days ago | 1 comments

Salt Typhoon Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only for the "Good Guys" (eff.org)
At EFF we’ve long noted that you cannot build a backdoor that only lets in good guys and not bad guys. Over the weekend, we saw another example of this: The Wall Street Journal reported on a major breach of U.S. telecom systems attributed to a sophisticated Chinese-government backed hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon.

Cybersecurity, Government Surveillance, China, Hacking, Telecom

86 points by Sami_Lehtinen 218 days ago | 8 comments

Pirate IPTV Subscribers Warned They Face "Automated Fines" (torrentfreak.com)
The head of telecoms regulator AGCOM confirmed this week that a memorandum of understanding between the Prosecutor's Office, Guardia di Finanza, and AGCOM, heralds a new stage in Italy's fight against IPTV piracy.

IPTV, Piracy, Italy, Law Enforcement, Telecom

12 points by austinallegro 220 days ago | 2 comments

Salt Typhoon hacked US broadband providers and breached wiretap systems (securityaffairs.com)

Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Telecom, Hacking, Government Surveillance

18 points by janandonly 228 days ago | 2 comments

AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform (bleepingcomputer.com)
Multiple U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, have been breached by a Chinese hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Cybersecurity, Telecom, Government, China

234 points by el_duderino 228 days ago | 59 comments

Broadcom offers AT&T a 1050% increase to renew VMware contract (theregister.com)
AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder.

Business, Technology, Telecom, Acquisitions, Contracts

13 points by dhruvrrp 234 days ago | 5 comments

Verizon to eliminate 5,000 employees in nearly $2B cost-cutting move (fortune.com)
Verizon Communications Inc. will take a pre-tax charge of as much as $1.9 billion in the third quarter tied to 4,800 planned job cuts.

Verizon, Telecom, Layoffs, Cost Cutting, Business

13 points by belter 252 days ago | 7 comments

AT&T sues Broadcom for 'breaking' VMware support extension contract (theregister.com)

Lawsuits, Technology, Telecom, Contracts

26 points by bretpiatt 257 days ago | 2 comments

Telecom that enabled Biden deepfake scam will pay FCC $1M (techcrunch.com)

Telecom, Scams, Deepfakes, FCC, Politics

8 points by ankitdce 275 days ago | 0 comments

17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations (npr.org)

Labor Unions, Strikes, Telecom

93 points by rntn 278 days ago | 20 comments

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