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Interesting Reads, August 19

Adam Shostack

If you needed more reasons to move away from using SMS-based authentication, and treating phone companies as trusted, “ AT&T employees took over $1 million in bribes to plant malware and unlock millions of smartphones: DOJ “ Abuse reporting systems are being abused. You need to threat model and play the chess game.

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

As I mentioned earlier, they partnered with HIBP to help drive people interested in personal security towards better personal security practices and obviously there's some neat integration with the data in HIBP too (there's also a dedicated page explaining why I chose them ). What can you do if you were in the data?