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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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Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

Mint Mobile experienced a recent data breach, exposing customers’ personal information to unauthorized access by threat actors. As an MVNO, Mint Mobile doesn’t own its own wireless infrastructure. ” reads the data breach notification email sent to the impacted customers.

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T-Mobile data breach: CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) exposed

Security Affairs

.” T-Mobile said that threat actors did not access names on the account, physical or email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax ID, passwords, or PINs. The company reported the incident to the authorities and is investigating the incident with the heal of a cybersecurity firm.

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Best Wi-Fi Security & Performance Testing Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

With other vulnerabilities such as sharing devices and Wi-Fi access with family members or lax password hygiene, security becomes a real challenge. It is also useful in assessing the security of wireless networks, as it can capture live, over-the-air wireless traffic. Such challenges exist in the office, too. Aircrack-ng.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. And you don't require, you know, a wild amount of data to conduct that multi factor authentication, when it comes to like that. If it's continuous authentication.

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