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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

Krebs on Security

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts.

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ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity experts reflect on 2021, foresee intensifying challenges in 2022

The Last Watchdog

Privacy and cybersecurity challenges and controversies reverberated through all aspect of business, government and culture in the year coming to a close. Related: Thumbs up for Biden’s cybersecurity exec order. According to Gartner , in 2022 API vulnerabilities will become the most frequent attack vector.

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This was 3rd Quarter 2022 — A Cybersecurity Look Back

Security Boulevard

In the third quarter of 2022, the four universal cyberattack drivers were accounted for: war, religion, politics and money. The post This was 3rd Quarter 2022 — A Cybersecurity Look Back appeared first on Radware Blog. The post This was 3rd Quarter 2022 — A Cybersecurity Look Back appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

Krebs on Security

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. LinkedIn declined to answer questions about the account purges, saying only that the company is constantly working to keep the platform free of fake accounts. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Here are our picks for the top 20 cybersecurity software vendors plus 10 honorable mentions – with the caveat that at least a couple of those 30 companies are likely to merge.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

Krebs on Security

Image: Shutterstock.com Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. But by the time we got to claims made in the middle of May 2022, completing the rest of the year’s timeline seemed unnecessary.

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ROUNDTABLE: What happened in privacy and cybersecurity in 2021 — and what’s coming in 2022

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, President Biden issued a cybersecurity executive order finally putting the federal government’s regulatory stamp on foundational cyber hygiene practices many organizations should have already been doing, yet continue to gift short shrift. More than two dozen experts participated. Comments edited for clarity and length.