The U.S. may not have totally kicked China-affiliated Salt Typhoon out of U.S. telecommunication systems, a new publication by CISA explains. Politico reports that CISA and the FBI are advising people to use encrypted communications:
Jeff Greene, [executive assistant director of cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency], strongly urged Americans to “use your encrypted communications where you have it,” adding that “we definitely need to do that, kind of look at what it means long-term, how we secure our networks.” As many as 80 telecommunications companies and internet service providers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, are believed to have been infiltrated in the hack.
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“Unless you are using a specialized app, any one of us and every one of us today is subject to the review by the Chinese Communist government of any cell phone conversation you have with anyone in America,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s cyber subcommittee, said during a panel at last month’s Halifax International Security Forum.
Read more at Politico.
To make end-to-end (E2E) encrypted phone calls, use a messaging app that offers E2E encryption like Signal, which works on Desktop, iOS, and Android. Both parties on the phone call need to have it installed.
