Secret Service Dismantles Telecom Threat Capable of Crippling Cell Service in Ny
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The Secret Service dismantled a telecom threat that could have crippled cell service in NY, highlighting the importance of cybersecurity efforts; the HN discussion was muted, with few comments.
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I also think that basic heat-maps of L2 signal strength and seen IMSI would have been a very strong clue something was up. If you put the city overlay into a GIS and heatmap the cell towers and binding states, you'd be going "hmm for a 10 household building, with 1000 simultaneous cell connects.. WCGW"
What if e.g. flooding the 5G/4G state forced people on roaming profiles to use weaker protections in a 2G space?
Rather I think it’s just a scam site that was careless and maybe rented some time to someone who made some threats.