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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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Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused

Security Affairs

Many security experts are warning of the risks of using the popular app, threat actors could be potentially interested in data collected by FaceApp. FaceApp was developed in 2017 by Wireless Lab, when it was downloaded 80 million times, but now thanks to the challenge it is becoming viral. Pierluigi Paganini.

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China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

Schneier on Security

News article : It’s not clear whether the security flaws were intentional or not, but the report speculated that proper encryption might interfere with some of China’s ubiquitous online surveillance tools, especially systems that allow local authorities to snoop on phones using public wireless networks or internet cafes.

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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

That's why there is so much worry about Chinese-made equipment for the new 5G wireless networks. While it's unlikely that China would bother spying on commuters using subway cars, it would be much less surprising if a tech company offered free Internet on subways in exchange for surveillance and data collection.

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5G Security

Schneier on Security

Because of how it is designed, the system blurs the wireless portion of the network connecting phones with base stations and the core portion that routes data around the world. First, the standards are simply too complex to implement securely. This is true for all software , but the 5G protocols offer particular difficulties.

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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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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Data provided in the reports are disconcerting, British telecommunications firms supported GCHQ in collecting a large volume of internet data from undersea cables, the overall amount of information from 2007 to 2012 registered a 7,000-fold increase, meanwhile, the spying system monitored nearly 46 billion private communications “events” every day.

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