---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20201219104011.4C63873C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:40:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Five Things to Do in Response to the SolarWinds Compromise Tuesday, December 15, 2020 The recent hack against FireEye and the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Department affected SolarWinds software for other clients as well (not limited to the U.S. government). SolarWinds has confirmed a cyberattack to its systems inserted a vulnerability within the affected by the incident and no action is required. Otherwise, we recommend the following miti- gation steps, along with review of the advisories from SolarWinds and FireEye ... https://www.natlawreview.com/article/five-things-to-do-response-to-solarwinds-compromise?utm_content=a5283427b877ab12d990f394dcabdcbf&utm_campaign=2020-12-17Cybersecurity%20Legal%20News&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20201219101314.09D8873C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 10:13:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Cascading failures, the downside of "Eat your own dogfood" Posted by brtech December 8, 2020 You may have heard that there was a pretty substantial outage in Amazon AWS Cloud services November 25, 2020. The summary of what happened can be found at: https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/ and is emblematic of how a simple maintenance action can lead to layer upon layer of unanticipated effects. Amazon is an amazing company, the AWS service is really impressive, and what happened in this case could easily have occurred in any cloud service. I'm unaware of whether there was any direct impact of this particular outage on any NG9-1-1 service, and I'd be very interested in hearing if there was. The lessons to be learned here apply much more broadly than cloud services. https://brianrosen.net/wp/2020/12/08/cascading-failures-the-downside-of-eat-your-own-dogfood/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <D40886A0-7290-4063-817D-72579452381E@roscom.com> Date: 19 Dec 2020 00:18:28 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom executive of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress video calls The case is a stunning blow for the $100 billion video-call giant that has become the go-to source for staying in touch during the pandemic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-helped-china-surveillance/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 20 Dec 2020