US Secret Service Thwarts Sophisticated Telecom Disruption Plot During UN Assembly

As the world’s leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, an alarming threat to America’s national security was quietly neutralized. The United States Secret Service has announced the dismantling of a sprawling network of over three hundred servers and one hundred thousand SIM cards within 56 kilometers of the UN headquarters—devices capable of disrupting critical telecommunications and threatening high-ranking US officials. Could such a threat have been allowed to unfold unnoticed? Thankfully not. But this episode exposes just how vulnerable our communications infrastructure remains in the face of sophisticated technological attacks linked to foreign or hostile...