CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2022

T Mobile’s Executive Vice President Mike Katz issued an update on his LinkedIn page, a sophisticated cyber attack resulting in data breach that apparently occurred last week targeting some of the business customers of his company. T Mobile Business is yet to release a formal update on the incident.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 11, 2024

A major T-Mobile outage is preventing customers from logging into their accounts and using the company's mobile app.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 7, 2024

Episode 324 features discussions on a significant AT&T data breach affecting 73 million customers and a sophisticated thread jacking attack targeting a journalist. The post Massive AT&T Data Leak, The Danger of Thread Hijacking appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

After analyzing many situations like the Uvalde Texas Shooting attack that killed 19 people including 17 children and 2 adults(teachers) T Mobile has come up with a new data priority strategy applicable to all first responders across the United States. And reallocation of resources in areas where the mobile service of T-Mobile is unavailable.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Since then, AT&T has released a series of managed SASE offers that bring together intelligent networking and cloud-based security in support of our customers. These offers represent practical implementations of the principles I described in my previous blog, one of these being AT&T SASE with Palo Alto Networks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons. According to the attackers, this was a configuration issue on an access point T-Mobile used for testing. T-Mobile left a gate left wide open for attackers – and attackers just had to find the gate.”.

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Adam Shostack

APRIL 29, 2021

It opens “While many forms of data-driven surveillance are now a ‘fact’ of contemporary life amidst datafication, obtaining concrete knowledge of how different institutions exploit data presents an ongoing challenge, requiring the expertise and power to untangle increasingly complex and opaque technological and institutional arrangements.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 6, 2023

AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. Numerous risks are inherent in the technologies that all organizations use. The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

T-Mobile has agreed to pay $350 million to settle class action claims related to a 2021 cyberattack which impacted around 80 million US residents. Under the proposed settlement, T-Mobile would also commit to an aggregate incremental spend of $150 million for data security and related technology in 2022 and 2023. Data breach.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 29, 2024

The message structure couldn’t just substitute the moaning of a whale or a crying seal for As and Bs or even whole words. With the technology available, it would have been hard to scrub that out. In the end, it didn’t work.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

AT&T Business is all-in on Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as an essential framework for security-driven networking. As the AT&T Cybersecurity team endeavors to help organizations transition to SASE frameworks, it’s picking up accolades not only from valued AT&T customers but also the broader cybersecurity community.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 20, 2023

Telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed on Thursday that hackers obtained data on 37 million customers through a vulnerable API (application program interface). The post T-Mobile: Leaky API Exposes Data on 37 Million appeared first on The. The disclosure was included in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Read the whole entry. »

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. It doesn’t have to be that way though, and it is not inevitable that the trend will continue. It doesn’t have to be that way though, and it is not inevitable that the trend will continue.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I can’t understand why anyone thinks these technologies are a good idea. The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet—and the recovery key—and therefore $38.9 It is now in bankruptcy.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 19, 2018

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, AT&T , Sprint and Verizon now say they are terminating location data sharing agreements with third parties. LocationSmart disabled its demo page shortly after that story.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 13, 2024

Back in the 1960s, if you played a 2,600Hz tone into an AT&T pay phone, you could make calls without paying. AT&T could sometimes change the signaling tones, make them more complicated, or try to keep them secret. It didn’t matter how much you whistled into your phone; nothing on the other end was paying attention.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

T-Mobile USA officials have confirmed they are investigating a breach of company systems, but say it’s too early to tell whether the personal data of 100 million customers has been exposed, as the alleged hackers have claimed. The attackers had access to the T-Mobile systems for two to three weeks before access was shut down Aug.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We know that many of us couldn't wait to reconnect in person. Given the continued uncertainties around the pandemic, the AT&T Business Summit will be exclusively virtual this year. Rest assured, you will be able to experience the magic of the AT&T Business Summit through our virtual program. Event is FREE!

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 20, 2023

T-Mobile announced on Thursday that a hacker accessed varying amounts of personal data from 37 million customers from late November 2022 until the malicious activity was detected on January 5th of this year. Here's a SecureWorld News article from August 2021 providing an update on a breach affecting 100 million T-Mobile users.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Some items on my list are still speculative, but none require science-fictional levels of technological advance. When reading about the successes and failures of AI systems, it’s important to differentiate between the fundamental limitations of AI as a technology, and the practical limitations of AI systems in the fall of 2023.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 24, 2022

But that doesn’t mean there can’t be some governance system on top of the blockchain that enables reversals. Yes, bitcoin doesn’t scale and the fees are too high. But that’s nothing inherent in blockchain technology—that’s just a bunch of bad design choices bitcoin made.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a major outage in the United States, that impacted service at other carriers, due to a “massive” DDoS attack. Wireless carrier T-Mobile suffered a massive DDoS attack that caused a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers due to a “massive” DDoS attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This was my first sign that I wasn’t dealing with your run-of-the-mill telemarketer. Once the recording (for this is what it turned out to be) began with the next line in the pre-programmed speech, with no acknowledgement of my response, I knew I was dealing with a robot powered by technology that simulated a real voice.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In A Hacker’s Mind (coming in February 2023), I write: Our societal systems, in general, may have grown fairer and more just over the centuries, but progress isn’t linear or equitable. Technology changes the amplitude of the noise. We can’t be sure of that anymore. It’s a “noisy” process.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 27, 2022

These ads won’t appear in front of you while playing; in fact, they’re designed to trigger when someone else is in-game. Those people triggering the ads won’t see them either ! Now you see it…now you don’t (but you might). However, there’s a rather peculiar twist involved. How does this work?

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 29, 2021

A 21-year-old Virginia native living in Turkey is allegedly behind the massive T-Mobile hack, China adopts a new national privacy law, and is Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot just creepy or is it the beginning of “useful AI” that people love and is “unequivocally good”. ** Links mentioned on the show ** 21-year-old tells WSJ he […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 27, 2021

Despite what many advertisements and salespeople would like you to think, you don’t need to (and in many cases shouldn’t) spend a fortune on security tools to achieve a robust cybersecurity program. Introduction. Accordingly, any deviance, whether intentional or not, from this set state… Posted by: Zachary Curley.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 2, 2023

But what I'm especially excited about is that this won't just be an "aw, isn't it cute seeing kids talk at a conference" kinda thing; she genuinely knows enough about this technology that together, we can make a talk that adults will learn something from.

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Veracode Security

APRIL 8, 2021

As a result of the worldwide pandemic, technology companies were forced to pivot to fully remote operations.??For t been enough investments in security measures. Luckily, the technology industry is efficient when it comes to fixing flaws and managing its security debt.?? t be the only concerns.

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Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mobile has confirmed that threat actors hacked their servers in a recent cyber attack but still investigate whether customer data was stolen. [.].

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Schneier on Security

JULY 7, 2023

Everyone is talking about these new AI technologies—like ChatGPT—and AI companies are touting their awesome power. But they aren’t talking about how that power comes from all of us. This won’t supersede normal copyright law, of course. They can’t create good AI without us.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 15, 2023

Zoom execs swear the company won’t actually train its AI on your video calls without permission, even though the Terms of Service still say it can. It’s a stupid way to run a technological revolution. It’s not their job, and it shouldn’t be. Of course, these are Terms of Service.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

VMware patched several flaws in its ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T products, including a critical code execution vulnerability. VMware has fixed several vulnerabilities in its ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and NSX-T products, including a critical flaw that allows arbitrary code execution. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2021

As a result of the worldwide pandemic, technology companies were forced to pivot to fully remote operations.??For t been enough investments in security measures. Luckily, the technology industry is efficient when it comes to fixing flaws and managing its security debt.?? t be the only concerns.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

But amidst Cooper's bite-sized factoids, a pair of comments she made about something else—the gender gap in the technology industry—set off a torrent of anger. “No one thinks it’s because women can’t be logical. ” This, the Internet decided, would not stand. One easy lesson, she said: "Guys.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. But here’s the problem: we don’t trust OpenAI. We don’t trust tech corporations. Or, as Thomas Claburn wrote : “Your info won’t be harvested for training” is the new “Your private chatter won’t be used for ads.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The European Union this week agreed to tighten up rules for the sale and export of dual-use technology. European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The term “ dual-use ” refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims.

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