Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:47:56 +0000

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. Here’s a primer on why you might want to do that, and how. Certain questions might be coming to mind right now, like “What the heck is CPNI?” And, ‘If it’s so ‘customer proprietary,’ why is AT&T sharing it with marketers?” Also maybe, “What can I do about it?” Read on for answers to all three questions.

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:14:57 +0000

Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 separate incidents throughout 2022, new data suggests. In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device.

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A week in security (January 23—29)

Categories: News

Tags: T-Mobile

Tags: ransomware

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: TikTok

Tags: privacy

Tags: Data Privacy Day 2023

Tags: Data Privacy Week 2023

Tags: Malwarebytes 2023 State of Mobile Cybersecurity

Tags: Riot Games

Tags: VASTFLUX

Tags: Grand Theft Auto 5

Tags: iPhone

Tags: vRealize

Tags: video game fish

Tags: credit cart theft

Tags: DuoLingo

Tags: K-12

Tags: Vice Society

Tags: Hive ransomware

The most interesting security related news from the week of January 23-19.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:53:39 +0000

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:45:31 +0000

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm’s analysis of the data suggests it corresponds to current and former customers of AT&T. The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company.

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A week in security (July 25 – July 31)

Categories: A week in security

Tags: backdoor

Tags: blog recap

Tags: bytedance

Tags: cookies

Tags: data breach

Tags: Google

Tags: linux

Tags: microsoft

Tags: ransomware

Tags: SQL injection

Tags: T-Mobile

Tags: tiktok

Tags: Uber

Tags: week in security

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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A week in security (July 25 – July 31)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 09:51:04 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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