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Crooks Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

July 12, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, advance auto parts, allstate, anheuser-busch, at&t breach, data breaches, FBI, Latest Warnings, los angeles unified, Mitsubishi, neiman marcus, progressive, pure storage, santander bank, snowflake hack, state farm, Techcrunch, ticketmaster, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wired

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:12:20 +0000

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. AT&T said it delayed disclosing the incident in response to “national security and public safety concerns,” noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent. AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:12:20 +0000

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TheTruthSpy stalkerware, still insecure, still leaking data

February 13, 2024 admin Android, maia arson crimew, news, personal, stalkerware, Techcrunch, TheTruthSpy

Stalkerware app TheTruthSpy has been hacked for the fourth time, once again leaking the sensitive data it captures.

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For months, JusTalk messages were accessible to everyone on the Internet

August 3, 2022 admin anurag sen, data breach, justalk, justalk 2nd phone number, justalk kids, ningbo jus, ningbo jus internet technology, privacy, Shodan, Techcrunch, zack whittaker

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:25:38 +0000

A security researcher found an open database belonging to JusTalk, a China-based video call and messaging app company.

The post For months, JusTalk messages were accessible to everyone on the Internet appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Photos of kids taken from spyware-ridden phones found exposed on the internet

June 16, 2022 admin 1byte, commercial spyware, l.m., motherboard, stalkerware, Techcrunch, TheTruthSpy

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:31:16 +0000

TheTruthSpy is an app programmed to siphon out photos, locations and more from smartphones.

The post Photos of kids taken from spyware-ridden phones found exposed on the internet appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

April 29, 2022 admin briansclub, google, michelle chang, Security Tools, Techcrunch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:25:49 +0000

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after Google rolled out a new policy enabling people under the age of 18 (or a parent/guardian) to request removal of their images from Google search results.

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Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests

December 5, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, apple, iphone 11, Techcrunch, ultra wideband, zack whittaker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:46:02 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity ran a story this week that puzzled over Apple’s response to inquiries about a potential privacy leak in its new iPhone 11 line, in which the devices appear to intermittently seek the user’s location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data. Today, Apple disclosed that this behavior is tied to the inclusion of a new short-range technology that lets iPhone 11 users share files locally with other nearby phones that support this feature, and that a future version of its mobile operating system will allow users to disable it.

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Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts

October 21, 2019 admin avast breach, data breaches, filehippo, jaya baloo, Kenneth White, nordvpn breach, Open Crypto Audit Project, secunia personal software inspector, supply chain attack, Techcrunch, zack whittaker

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:32:57 +0000

Antivirus and security giant Avast and virtual private networking (VPN) software provider NordVPN each today disclosed months-long network intrusions that — while otherwise unrelated — shared a common cause: Forgotten or unknown user accounts that granted remote access to internal systems with little more than a password.

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