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David Sanger

@sangernyt
19 posts
2024-08-05
A brilliant piece by @AnaSwanson and @fu_claire, with help from @KeithBradsher, on the sophisticated Chinese effort to route around American sanctions on Nvidia chips. it races the question of how much time the US sanctions effort is actually buying, and whether the sanctions are
2024-08-05 View on X
New York Times

An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some military-tied Chinese organizations have bought restricted chips

2023-03-22
It might sound like an easy fix: Force TikTok's parent company to sell the app to an American buyer, ending the national security concerns, or ban it entirely. Except that 150 million Americans use TikTok, the company says. And they vote. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-03-22 View on X
New York Times

The US will find banning TikTok difficult due to its massive userbase, political ramifications, possible alienation of young voters, legal challenges, and more

The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company's chief executive testifies on Capitol Hill.

It might sound like an easy fix: Force TikTok's parent company to sell the app to an American buyer, ending the national security concerns, or ban it entirely. Except that 150 million Americans use TikTok, the company says. And they vote. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-03-22 View on X
Bloomberg

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce posts TikTok CEO Shou Chew's prepared testimony, outlining a ~$1.5B plan to host US data on Oracle servers and more

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms …

2022-11-25
Remarkable life, and remarkable man — he taught me much about IBM's move from mainframes to personal computers and beyond. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-25 View on X
New York Times

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91

Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remember...

2022-07-30
The $280 billion CHIPS and Science bill is a breakthrough in industrial policy. It is also frightfully late, and China didn't sit around waiting for its passage. It made progress on the key semiconductor manufacturing technology that had stymied it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-07-30 View on X
New York Times

As Congress debated the $280B CHIPS Act for 13 months, China's semiconductor industry surged ahead, making a 7nm chip that may be based on, or stolen from, TSMC

2022-01-17
There's a playbook to all this - one the private sector can sometimes see faster than the govt. can, or the intended victims. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-17 View on X
Microsoft Security Blog

Microsoft identifies a destructive malware operation targeting Ukrainian organizations; the malware looks like ransomware but lacks a ransom recovery mechanism

European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company Vilius Petkauskas / cybernews.com : Belarus state hackers suspected behind Ukraine cyberattack Grugq /...

2021-11-29
A fabulous piece of reporting from power team of @farnazfassihi and @ronenbergman. That attack on Iran's gas stations? It was Israel. On Israeli dating sites? Meet Black Shadow, a state-backed Iranian hacking operator ion. Cyber conflict gets personal. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-29 View on X
New York Times

Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale

Iranians couldn't buy gas.  Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online.  The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens.

2021-11-28
A fabulous piece of reporting from power team of @farnazfassihi and @ronenbergman. That attack on Iran's gas stations? It was Israel. On Israeli dating sites? Meet Black Shadow, a state-backed Iranian hacking operator ion. Cyber conflict gets personal. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-11-28 View on X
New York Times

Recent cyberattacks on Iran's fuel distribution system and an Israeli LGBTQ dating site show that Iran-Israel cyberwar is impacting civilians on a large scale

Iranians couldn't buy gas.  Israelis found their intimate dating details posted online.  The Iran-Israel shadow war is now hitting ordinary citizens. Tweets: @alexgibneyfilm , @ebk...

2021-06-14
Must-read piece on the gag orders, the most pernicious element of the search for reporters' records. There is a legitimate argument over the extent to which 1st Amend. should protect sources and newsgathering. But the gag orders assure those arguments never play out in court. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-14 View on X
Washington Post

Secret gag orders imposed by the US government on tech companies must stop, as they abuse citizens' fundamental freedoms and are no longer even used sparingly

Brad Smith is the president of Microsoft.  —  The past seven days marked another bad week for the collision between technology and democracy.

2020-12-15
Struck by fact that for 6 weeks now @realDonaldTrump and 100+ Republican members of Congress have been talking about a hack that never happened - of the vote. Total silence on the one that did happen: Russian hackers inside the Fed. govt.'s own agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-15 View on X
Reuters

Sources: state-sponsored hackers accessed US DHS internal communications as part of the campaign that penetrated US Treasury and Commerce departments

now five — hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign David Uberti / Wall Street Journal : Hack of Federal Agencies Shows Cyber Dangers to Supply Chains Tweets: Dustin Volz / ...

Struck by fact that for 6 weeks now @realDonaldTrump and 100+ Republican members of Congress have been talking about a hack that never happened - of the vote. Total silence on the one that did happen: Russian hackers inside the Fed. govt.'s own agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-15 View on X
Reuters

SolarWinds: under 18,000 customers were compromised between March and June via an update to its Orion software, leading to DHS, Treasury, Commerce Dept. hacks

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. IT company SolarWinds said on Monday that up to 18,000 of its customers had downloaded …

2020-12-14
Struck by fact that for 6 weeks now @realDonaldTrump and 100+ Republican members of Congress have been talking about a hack that never happened - of the vote. Total silence on the one that did happen: Russian hackers inside the Fed. govt.'s own agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack”

Russia's foreign intelligence service is suspected of being behind effort to breach government networks

Struck by fact that for 6 weeks now @realDonaldTrump and 100+ Republican members of Congress have been talking about a hack that never happened - of the vote. Total silence on the one that did happen: Russian hackers inside the Fed. govt.'s own agencies. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-14 View on X
Reuters

Sources: state sponsored hackers monitored internal emails at US Treasury and broke into National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Office 365

Christopher Bing / Reuters :

2020-11-27
Fascinating account of the horrifying effects of the Vermont hospital ransomware attack, brilliantly told by ⁦@EllenBarryNYT⁩ and ⁦@nicoleperlroth⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-11-27 View on X
New York Times

Staff and patients at the University of Vermont Medical Center describe devastating effects of treatment and test delays after a TrickBot ransomware attack

A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments.  “I have no idea what to do,” one said.

2020-10-30
With the great @nicoleperlroth, a look at what to expect when you are expecting the Russians, the Iranians and others - including domestic players - to hack brains as well as infrastructure. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-30 View on X
New York Times

A look at “perception hacks”, small attacks that can undermine confidence if exaggerated, and other scenarios that election officials are keeping an eye on

perception hacks are designed to trick us into thinking there has been widespread manipulation when there hasn't. The threat actors will keep trying, but we don't have to take the ...

2020-08-21
Big breakthrough here: companies and executives have often lied to cover up hacks, as if the data that was stolen belonged to them - not the people whose private info was compromised. Criminal charges may make execs rethink the wisdom of not revealing hacks. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-21 View on X
New York Times

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with obstruction of justice for trying to conceal the 2016 data breach of millions of users and drivers from FTC officials

Joe Sullivan, who led Uber's security team through the company's most tumultuous period, was fired by the company's newly installed chief executive in 2017.

2020-06-05
Worried about the Russians? They may be the lesser problem....With the great ⁦@nicoleperlroth⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-06-05 View on X
TechCrunch

Google researchers say hackers backed by China recently targeted the Biden campaign while Iran targeted the Trump campaign, but see “no signs of compromise”

Google security researchers say they've identified efforts by at least two nation state-backed hackers against the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns.

2020-04-13
It's not just the Chinese peddling a conspiracy theory that coronavirus is an American bioweapon gone rogue, ⁦@WilliamJBroad⁩ reports. Vladimir is back, with disinformation to match the moment. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-04-13 View on X
New York Times

Investigation finds a decade-long health disinformation campaign by Russia, using social media and news outlets like RT, to sow confusion and hurt institutions

A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions … Tweets: @anneapplebaum , @tripgabriel , @neilmac...

2019-09-24
So where is the silver cyber bullet that retaliates for the attack on Saudi Arabia? Still in the chamber, and there's a big debate about what happens if it gets fired. @julianbarnes and I examine the deterrence dilemma about the seemingly perfect weapon. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2019-09-24 View on X
New York Times

A look at the history of cyberattacks between US and Iran as the US Cyber Command seeks a process of deterrence to curb future Iranian retaliation

after one launched against Iran just three months ago — has emerged as the most appealing course of action for President Trump, who is reluctant to widen the conflict in a region h...