FBI chief says Chinese have infiltrated critical US infrastructure
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow”, the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, has warned.
An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as #Volt#Typhoon has successfully gained access to numerous American companies in telecommunications, energy, water and other critical sectors, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Wray said.
China is developing the “ability to physically wreak havoc on our #critical#infrastructure at a time of its choosing”, Wray said at the 2024 Vanderbilt summit on modern conflict and emerging threats.
He added: “Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce #panic.”
Wray said it was difficult to determine the intent of this cyber pre-positioning, which was aligned with China’s broader intent to deter the US from defending Taiwan.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan strongly objects to China’s sovereignty claims and says only the island’s people can decide their future.
Earlier this week, a Chinese ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) spokesperson said Volt Typhoon was in fact unrelated to China’s government, but was part of a criminal #ransomware group. #VoltTyphoon#hacking
@matt I’ll also note philosophically that we’re big preservation nerds here, and huge fans of Internet Archive, and we have been thinking about this kind of stuff from the beginning. No concrete plans to reveal but it’s at least in our brains! 🙌
@matt We definitely hope not to fade away, but we also know that nothing is ever guaranteed! 🙂 If we needed to, we'd always do our best to help archive and maintain the Playdate legacy.
From my #macos days I remember working with quite a few very, very enjoyable #apps like Nova by #panic or iA Writer by #informationarchitects. In my dreams these vendors will start to make apps for #linux too. #opensource of course. 😇 https://nova.app/https://ia.net/writer
On the other hand I can happily say that I am pretty satisfied with what I have on Linux today already. 🤓
"The NSA has finally released a treasure trove of documents about the brief Furby panic of 1998 and 1999 at America’s top spy agency, in which it banned the toy from its offices as a potential spy device, discussed the toy’s ability to “learn” using an “artificial intelligent chip onboard” on an internal listserv, and ultimately was embarrassed by attention from the press after an employee leaked news of the ban to The Washington Post."
@Iconfactory It's fun analyzing the social link strategy of each of your employees by scrolling and hovering over your avatars on the homepage. Nice work, Mastodon crew! Would love to see you all on here. 😛
@distantnative indeed!
There used to be a music library app for iTunes in 2009 or so that would allow you to analyze all of your MP3’s and determine the crossfade distance per song and it was a major task. I think it was a German app. Flash-based? Can’t remember.