eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

BankInfoSecurity reported that it had communicated with one person involved in the T-Mobile attack, who said the attackers got into the T-Mobile systems when the giant carrier left a gateway GPRS support node (GSSN) – which is a router between the company’s network and the internet – misconfigured, which exposed it to the internet.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2023

Google Fi, a wireless phone plan offered only to Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary customers, has confirmed a data breach that could have occurred because of a security incident on T-Mobile servers that leaked data related to millions of customers.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Its primary goal is to meticulously identify vulnerabilities inherent within wireless communication systems (Smith & Johnson, 2018). In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The researcher found various types of data, including user email address, client IP, user ld, web camera serial number, country location, SSID/ wireless network name and camera settings, such as the state of any embedded microphones. Data breaches appear to be common events these days. Thanks, Adorcam customer support.

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Wireless Data breaches Phishing Passwords 128

CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Adopting and applying cybersecurity principles can help you secure your company and decrease the danger of a data breach. Protect your wireless system with full backups. It’s important to constantly back up the entire company data , especially the data trapped in legacy hardware.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 30, 2021

We have new information on the T-Mobile data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers just a couple weeks ago. The data breach resulted in the personal information of approximately 54 million customers being accessed by the hacker. T-Mobile data breach details.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Without a SIM card, you won’t be able to receive calls, send text messages, or access the internet. To do this, they will try to gather the personal information they need to successfully impersonate you for your wireless provider; this information may include your name, Social Security number, street address, and phone number.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Nominate Pierluigi Paganini and Security Affairs here here: [link] Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

The oil giant employs has over $200 billion in annual revenue, and the threat actors are offering the stolen data at an initial price of $5 million. Bleeping Computer reached the company who confirmed a data breach on third-party contractors, but pointed out that the incident had no impact on Aramco’s operations.

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Engineering Telecommunications Wireless Data breaches 140

Identity IQ

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Once they have this info, they can call your wireless provider, pretending to be you, and have your number moved over to their cell phone. It can be easy for criminals to get ahold of your number if it was compromised in a data breach. Then they try to trick the person into going along with whatever scheme they’re running.

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Identity Theft Wireless Scams Authentication 93

BH Consulting

JUNE 17, 2024

IT includes routers, wireless access points, servers, computers and printers. The Internet of Things includes network attached storage, IP cameras, VoIP, and network video recorders. Network devices overtook endpoints as the riskiest in 2024; wireless access points had 34 per cent of all risks, followed by routers with 20 per cent.

Wireless 52

Wireless Ransomware Artificial Intelligence Data breaches 52

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This does not bode well for their longevity, as other industry data shows that 60% of small businesses that suffer a data breach will be out of business within six months. Use of a VPN – virtual private networks (VPN) create a secure connection to other networks over the internet.

Small Business 98

Small Business Cybersecurity Passwords Education 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

T-Mobile discloses data breach affecting prepaid wireless customers. Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus discloses a new data breach. Russian author of NeverQuest banking malware gets 4 Years in U.S. Catch Hospitality Group discloses PoS malware infection at its restaurants.

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Data breaches Wireless Banking Advertising 96

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 17, 2017

NIST’s focus on IoT at its workshop this week comes on the heels of its new draft NIST cybersecurity guidance on securing wireless infusion pumps in the healthcare industry. NIST is accepting public comment on the new draft guidance through July 7, 2017.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records.

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DNS Internet Internet Government 265

Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

Firewalls are used to segment or isolate networks and are an essential component to limit cyber threats and protect internal networks from the internet and untrusted networks. Establish a network diagram to identify all connections between the cardholder data environment and other networks, including any wireless networks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

That weakness has supposedly been patched for all the major wireless carriers now, but it really makes you question the ongoing sanity of relying on the Internet equivalent of postcards (SMS) to securely handle quite sensitive information.

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Mobile Accountability Passwords Authentication 345

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code).

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Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 293

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When it comes to impactful types of internet-borne crime, phishing is the name of the game. It serves as a vessel for various strains of malware, including ransomware, and underlies data-stealing campaigns that target large organizations and individuals alike. And for good reason.

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Phishing Scams Passwords Wireless 99

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.”

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Mobile Technology Manufacturing Malware 246

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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Penetration Testing Firewall Data breaches Malware 133

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2021

The entire security core is different than earlier wireless technologies. Data security. Data Firewall. Data Breach. Internet Of Things. However, 5G is not simply a bigger valve that was opened up on an invisible pipe. It is fundamentally different in its design. Information and Security Research.

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Technology Wireless IoT Firewall 104

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

A historic records search at Domaintools on that tosaka1027@gmail.com address says it was used to register 24 Internet domain names , including at least seven that have been conclusively tied to the spread of powerful Android mobile malware. a firm that says it is “dedicated to the development and operation of Internet mobile games.”

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Mobile Technology Manufacturing Software 160

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The importance of data and the power of being an insights-driven enterprise are increasing the amount of damage that data breaches can cause. At the same time, consumers are deeply concerned with how their data is collected and used. Believe it or not, the fifth generation of wireless technology is already here.

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Data privacy IoT Data breaches Surveillance 89

Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I don’t know about you, but I grew up as a child of the internet, and the thought of never going online again isn’t one I’m likely to seriously consider. Some password managers have a built-in audit tool that will highlight re-used passwords or passwords that may have been captured in a data breach.

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Passwords Risk Authentication Accountability 83

NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

The CIS Security Controls, published by SANS and the Center for Internet Security (SIS) and formerly known as the SANS 20 Critical Security Controls , are prioritized mitigation steps that your organization can use to improve cybersecurity.

Penetration Testing 52

Penetration Testing Social Engineering Firewall Software 52

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database. TARGETED PHISHING.

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Passwords Password Management Phishing Scams 357

Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I was personally honored in my early career to work for Wang Laboratories and was invited to share one of my visions ‘fax over the internet’ with the company, which I invented. Within this whirlwind of all things moving to the internet, insurance vendors recently began to take cyber insurance very seriously.

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Digital transformation Computers and Electronics Cyber Insurance Insurance 81

Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million Healthcare organizations for the 9th year in a row had the highest costs associated with data breaches – $6.45 Yes, they are. percent in 2019.

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Risk Cybersecurity Penetration Testing Data breaches 52

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The company produces inexpensive smart home products and wireless cameras. . “Today, we are confirming that some Wyze user data was not properly secured and left exposed from December 4th to December 26th.” IoT vendor Wyze announced that one of its servers exposed the details of roughly 2.4 million customers.

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IoT Accountability Advertising Wireless 73

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Service providers and 5G-enabled device manufacturers both have critical roles to play in the success and sustainability of this wireless network rollout. Exposing the Internet of Things (IoT) Universe. Insecure implementations may result in unauthorized access to threat actors and potential data breaches.”

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Risk Cybersecurity IoT Wireless 137

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The irony of this data leak is that marketers who constantly scrape the Web for consumer contact data may not realize the source of the information, and end up feeding it into automated systems that peddle dubious wares and services via automated phone calls and text messages.

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Mobile Marketing Consumer Protection Wireless 319

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Treasury issued fresh sanctions against entities linked to the Intellexa Consortium Broadcom fixed Critical VMware vCenter Server flaw CVE-2024-38812 Remote attack on pagers used by Hezbollah caused 9 deaths and thousands of injuries Chinese man charged for spear-phishing against NASA and US Government Data Breach Qilin ransomware attack on Synnovis (..)

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Hacking Antivirus Ransomware Cybercrime 101

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity shared a large amount of data gathered for this story with T-Mobile. But in a written statement, T-Mobile said this type of activity affects the entire wireless industry. “These breaches should not happen,” Weaver said. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Let's make some toothbrushes connect to the internet.

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Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

With that an attacker couldn't necessarily intercept the data, but they could query the peloton API to get user data that they weren't supposed to. In other words, Peloton suffered from an API vulnerability that could potentially lead to a massive data breach. Let's make some toothbrushes connect to the internet.

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Hacking Mobile Authentication Internet 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A VPN provides a secure channel for users to send and retrieve sensitive data using public infrastructure – the Internet. This avoids the cost of leasing dedicated secure lines between branch offices and allows employees the flexibility to work anywhere with an Internet connection. Encryption secures data in transit.

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