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Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. warn of PRC-linked cyber espionage targeting telecom networks

Security Affairs

Strong segmentation with firewalls and DMZs, securing VPN gateways, and ensuring encrypted traffic with TLS v1.3 The US government’s continued investigation into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.”

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GUEST ESSAY: Why there’s no such thing as anonymity it this digital age

The Last Watchdog

App developers, credit card, telecommunication companies, and others use the term “anonymous data” because it sells. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. But anonymous data really doesn’t exist anymore.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 12 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. but given the Salt Typhoon breach and the apparent lackluster security practices and culture at just about every American telecommunications company, this was too interesting to ignore.

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The Russian Government blocked ProtonMail and ProtonVPN

Security Affairs

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service.

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

We know that war has impacts on telecommunications, but what we've seen in Ukraine is on a different level.". And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. Advancing Russian troops need it to communicate.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police. mail.cyta.com.cy: Cyta telecommunications and Internet provider, Cyprus. mail.asp.gov.al: email for Albanian State Police.

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Russia’s watchdog Roskomnadzor threatens to fine Twitter and Facebook

Security Affairs

Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service.