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Internet Backbone Giant Lumen Shuns.RU

Krebs on Security

Lumen Technologies , an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. ru) from the Internet. More information can help, even as disinformation circulates.

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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Krebs on Security

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Massive Data Breach

Krebs on Security

On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. A sales thread tied to the allegedly stolen T-Mobile customer data.

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Ukraine's largest mobile carrier Kyivstar down following cyberattack

Bleeping Computer

Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications service provider serving over 25 million mobile and home internet subscribers, has suffered a cyberattack impacting mobile and data services. [.]

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Best Mobile Proxies: Unlocking Faster and More Secure Mobile Browsing

SecureBlitz

Want the best mobile proxies? In today’s digital age, mobile devices have become many people’s primary means of accessing the internet. Mobile devices offer convenience and flexibility when browsing, connecting on social media, conducting online research, or accessing geo-restricted content.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Deploying Hollywood-tested content protection to improve mobile app security

The Last Watchdog

Your go-to mobile apps aren’t nearly has hackproof as you might like to believe. Related: Fallout of T-Mobile hack Hackers of modest skill routinely bypass legacy security measures, even two-factor authentication, with techniques such as overlay attacks. And hard data shows instances of such breaches on the rise.

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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.

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