Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Monday, December 30th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

AT&T and Verizon say they've rooted out Salt Typhoon.

Trump asks the Supreme Court to intervene in the TikTok situation.

All the banks want to be like tether.

And as we slide into this new year, it's a USBC world now. We're just

living in it. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Call me crazy, but I continue to think that all of our cellular networks, having been penetrated

by hackers, likely doing the bidding of our cellular networks, having been penetrated by hackers,

likely doing the bidding of a nation state, should be bigger news, but hey, I'm just one man.

Still, I am encouraged to hear that AT&T and Verizon have come out to say that they believe

their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion. AT&T says a few individuals of foreign

intelligence interests were targeted in the hacks, quoting Bloomberg. The hackers attempted to gain

information about foreign intelligence. Dallas-based AT&T said Thursday in a statement, New York-based

Verizon said in a separate statement that, quote, a small number of

high-profile customers in government and politics had been targeted. We have not detected

threat actor activity in Verizon's network for some time, and after considerable work addressing

this incident, we can report that Verizon has contained the activities associated with this

particular incident, Verizon Chief

Legal Officer Vandana Venkatesh, said in the statement. An independent cybersecurity firm confirmed

the containment of the threat, Verizon said. Both carriers said they are cooperating with authorities

and notifying parties whose information may have been compromised. We detect no activity by nation-state

actors in our networks at this time, AT&T said, based on our current investigation of this attack,

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