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Privacy Roundup: Week 12 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

but given the Salt Typhoon breach and the apparent lackluster security practices and culture at just about every American telecommunications company, this was too interesting to ignore. Cape is a mobile carrier startup claiming to provide a more secure and private service alternative to traditional telecommunications services.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

From a different angle, reporting from The Intercept revealed mobile surveillance capabilities available to Iran for the purposes of domestic investigations that leverage direct access to (and cooperation of) local telecommunication companies. One of the major cyber-incidents of 2022 took place early this year: the Okta hack.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. and installed software (operating systems, applications, firmware, etc.). Outsourcing U.S.

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Our capabilities. A story about what we can achieve

Pen Test Partners

Azerbijans Arabian Ghost The annual climate change conference that nearly didnt happen The hacker group “Arabian Ghost” claimed responsibility for cyberattacks targeting several Azerbaijani government websites and telecommunication sites (Critical National Infrastructure). When we were brought in, key VPN logs were missing.

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Lapsus$: The New Name in Ransomware Gangs

Security Boulevard

Other targets include Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) and Brazilian telecommunications operator Claro. Since they appear to be succeeding, Lapsus$ announced that they are looking to recruit insiders employed at telecommunications, software and gaming companies, among other technology businesses. But first things first.

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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

SecureList

According to the same article, another such attack took place in the late 1990s when the American military attacked a Serbian telecommunications network. It directly affected satellite modems firmwares , but was still to be understood as of mid-March. ViaSat quickly suspected that disruptions could be the result of a cyberattack.

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DDoS attacks in Q1 2021

SecureList

To prevent attacks via RDP, it is recommended to hide RDP servers behind a VPN or disable UDP port 3389. That said, a VPN is no panacea if it too is vulnerable to amplification attacks. In Q1 2021, for instance, attackers went after Powerhouse VPN servers.

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