{"id":222802,"date":"2026-03-12T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/officials-worry-salt-typhoon-apathy-is-killing-momentum-for-tougher-telecom-security-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:35:14","slug":"officials-worry-salt-typhoon-apathy-is-killing-momentum-for-tougher-telecom-security-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/officials-worry-salt-typhoon-apathy-is-killing-momentum-for-tougher-telecom-security-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for tougher telecom security rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/salt-typhoon-china-telecom-hack-impact-new-jersey\/\">Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for tougher telecom security rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/salt-typhoon-china-telecom-hack-impact-new-jersey\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/salt-typhoon-china-telecom-hack-impact-new-jersey\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-12 11:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, it was revealed that Chinese hackers had compromised at least ten U.S. telecoms, giving them broad access to phone data affecting nearly all Americans. Since then, public officials charged with responding to the campaign and bolstering the nation\u2019s cyber defenses have reported a common problem.<\/p>\n<p>Many of their constituents struggle to understand why the hacks \u2013 carried out by a group called Salt Typhoon \u2013 should rank among their top concerns, or how it impacts their day to day lives.<\/p>\n<p>Some state and federal officials worry that this lack of interest is depriving policymakers the public pressure needed to build momentum for stronger action to improve the nation\u2019s telecommunications cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Geraghty, the CISO and director of the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Cell, said New Jersey is the nation\u2019s most densely populated state, with a high concentration of critical infrastructure and a major telecommunications footprint. For that reason, a campaign like Salt Typhoon should, in theory, be of strong interest to Garden State residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, if you talk to a person on the street in New Jersey, they\u2019\u2019ll say who cares that the Chinese are looking at \u2013 you know \u2013 what numbers I call?\u201d he said Wednesday at the Billington State and Local Cybersecurity Summit. \u201cIt has a big role to play in my job, but trying to get people to understand what that means for New Jersey is really difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congress hasn\u2019t passed comprehensive privacy legislation in decades. Meanwhile, cyberattacks that expose sensitive data are widespread, and U.S. companies routinely collect and sell\u00a0customers\u2019 personal information. Some officials speculate that, taken together, these trends have left Americans numb to data theft\u00a0and data-for-profit\u2013so additional breaches feel like just another drop in the bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Mischa Beckett, deputy chief information security officer and director of cyber threat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/salt-typhoon-china-telecom-hack-impact-new-jersey\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials worry Salt Typhoon apathy is killing momentum for tougher telecom security rules https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/salt-typhoon-china-telecom-hack-impact-new-jersey\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/11\/GettyImages-1363385264.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-222802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222804,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222802\/revisions\/222804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}