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TikTok, Cyberattacks & US Tech: Expert Analysis
Jun 24, 2025
We delve into the implications of the TikTok extension, exploring trade negotiations and the security risks. Additionally, our experts break down the threat of Iranian cyberattacks targeting U.S. technology, emphasizing the potential for disruption and the importance of cybersecurity in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. #TikTok #Cybersecurity #CyberAttacks #IranCyberAttack #USTechnology #DataSecurity #FortalisSolutions #TheresaPayton #TechNews #BreakingNews
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Let's bring in the aforementioned White
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House chief former information officer
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and the CEO of the cyber security firm
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Fordus Solutions, Terresa Payton. Cheryl
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stole my question, so I'm going to ask
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it to you again. Read the tea leaves for
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us. Bite Dance owns Tik Tok said a deal
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would not be approved by China until
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there was a deal on tariffs. So, is this
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90-day extension a sign to you that
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Trump is optimistic that he gets a deal
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done, formalized, in writing, signed,
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sealed, delivered? Oh, yeah. In that
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90-day time frame?
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Absolutely. And here's the thing,
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whether you love it or hate it, seems
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like Tik Tok has more lives than a cat
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right now. So uh the extension is
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definitely a sign that uh they believe
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maybe in trade negotiations with China
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around tariffs and other things that
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this is a bargaining chip on the table.
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So it'll be interesting to see how the
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next 90 days plays out and uh whether or
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not this is on the table at the tariff
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and trade discussions with China. Yeah,
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I think they're all intermixed like you
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and Cheryl said. Has anything changed
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from the original plan to have Tik Tok's
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American operations owned and operated
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by Americans?
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I haven't seen anything that tells me
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it's changed. And what's interesting is
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is Tik Tok USA did make in my estimates.
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I'm just guessing hundreds of millions
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of dollars in investment to actually
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take American data stored on Oracle,
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something they called Project Texas. The
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question remains though about the
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algorithm, the access to data points and
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if Tik Tok USA were compelled by owner
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Bite Dance to give up information,
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anything as mundane as uh login
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information all the way to IP addresses
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and other information that could give
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patterns of life. That is the question
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that remains. Is that happening now? And
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could that potentially happen in the
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future depending upon the architecture?
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And even if we do sign all these deals
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with Tik Tok and everything looks like
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it's all buttoned up, do we trust the
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Chinese at the end of the day? That's
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the question. Uh speaking of trust,
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experts are sounding the alarm that Iran
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may target US technology with cyber
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attacks. One IT expert giving a
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breakdown on what these hackers could
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do. quote, "These activist groups will
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leverage a variety of tactics, including
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the exploitation of vulnerable systems,
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targeted spear fishing and data
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collection, and are known to carry out
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both disruptive and destructive attacks,
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political reporting. Some of the
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companies that were warned of a possible
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Iranian cyber attack, Hershey, Tyson,
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IBM, Intel, AT&T, and Kagra. I look at
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that list and I say food and technology,
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kind of what keeps our country running."
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as a CEO of a cyber security firm, how
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real is this threat?
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It is a real and present danger. And you
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know, whether or not they're successful
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is going to be one thing, but uh we
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should not have any hubris around their
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capabilities. They just have to get it
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right once. I would say they're going to
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be looking for things that have maximum
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viewability, maximum disruption, maximum
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impact. So it could be everything that
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you mentioned and distributed denial of
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service attacks on things such as the
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financial services sector, insurance,
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travel. This is a very busy travel
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season. as well as we should be prepared
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for them to have very sophisticated
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uh basically deep fake technology, deep
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fake voices of government officials,
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deep fake video of government officials
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potentially trying to trick either
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businesses or critical infrastructure
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into giving up information they wouldn't
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normally do. That's such an important
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point. Just because they don't have a
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really any planes anymore to fight back
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doesn't mean there can't be some smart
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guy in a cave with a computer. They can
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fight back there and we need to pay
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attention to that. Terresa Payeyton,
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thank you. Appreciate it. I'm Steve
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Ducey. I'm Brian Kilme. And I'm Anley
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