AgBandsman said:

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Let me guess, the 50 senators are all Dems.

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RoadkillBBQ said:

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What threat is legitimate enough to warrant that? Has to be something that threatens normal communications like cell phones. What are they planning or not telling us?

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Federal funding will pay for the satellite airtime needed to utilize the phone devices.

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torrid said:

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These should be adequate.

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BluHorseShu said:

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akm91 said:

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Our country is becoming more and more like Animal Fram

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Framers Fight! Framers Fight! Fight1 Fight !.....Framers Framers Fight! Whoop!

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Microsoft warned on Wednesday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had compromised "critical" U.S. cyber infrastructure across numerous industries with a focus on gathering intelligence.

The Chinese hacking group, codenamed "Volt Typhoon," has operated since mid-2021, Microsoft said in an advisory. The organization is apparently working to disrupt "critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia," Microsoft said, to stymie efforts during "future crises."

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The National Security Agency put out a bulletin on Wednesday, detailing how the hack works and how cybersecurity teams should respond.

The attack is apparently ongoing. In an advisory, Microsoft urged impacted customers to "close or change credentials for all compromised accounts."

U.S. intelligence agencies became aware of the incursion in February, around the same time that a Chinese spy balloon was downed, the New York Times reported.

The infiltration was focused on communications infrastructure in Guam and other parts of the U.S., the Times reported, and was particularly alarming to U.S. intelligence because Guam sits at the heart of an American military response in case of a Taiwanese invasion.

Volt Typhoon is able to infiltrate organizations using a unnamed vulnerability in a popular cybersecurity suite called FortiGuard, Microsoft said. Once the hacking group has gained access to a corporate system, it steals user credentials from the security suite and uses them to try to gain access to other corporate systems.

The state-sponsored hackers aren't looking to create disruption yet, Microsoft said. Rather, "the threat actor intends to perform espionage and maintain access without being detected for as long as possible."

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45-70Ag said:

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Members of Congress are not important or essential enough to justify needing this.

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fka ftc said:

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I am curious as to how obsolete these become once Starlink is fully operational. Heck, they may already be obsolete in the US, Ukraine, and other places Musk has enabled it.

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Burdizzo said:

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fka ftc said:

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I am curious as to how obsolete these become once Starlink is fully operational. Heck, they may already be obsolete in the US, Ukraine, and other places Musk has enabled it.

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Good question. Another question is how secure is StarLink?

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