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AT&T, Verizon Subscribers Exposed as Mobile Bills Turn Up on the Open Web
2019-12-05 18:34

Names, addresses, phone numbers, call and text message records and account PINs were all caught up in a cloud misconfiguration.

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile to replace SMS with RCS Messaging in 2020
2019-10-25 11:34

Mobile carriers in the United States will finally offer a universal cross-carrier communication standard for the next-generation RCS messaging service that is meant to replace SMS and has the...

AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Blasted For Data Privacy Policies
2019-08-12 20:17

A U.S. senator is giving the four telecommunications companies until Sept. 4 to outline how they plan to better protect customer data privacy.

More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders
2019-08-08 12:28

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

AT&T Employees Took Bribes to Unlock Smartphones
2019-08-08 11:22

This wasn't a small operation: A Pakistani man bribed AT&T call-center employees to install malware and unauthorized hardware as part of a scheme to fraudulently unlock cell phones, according to...

DOJ: Bribed AT&T Workers Planted Malware on Carrier's Network
2019-08-07 14:33

Scheme Involved Unlocking 2 Million Smartphones to Enable FraudThe Justice Department has indicted two men on charges of paying more than $1 million in bribes to AT&T employees who helped plant...

Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Insiders to Plant Malware and Unlock 2 Million Phones
2019-08-06 18:18

United States federal government has charged a Pakistani national for bribing employees at AT&T telecommunication company over a period of five years to help unlock more than 2 million phones and...

Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Employees to Unlock Phones, Plant Malware
2019-08-06 15:08

A Pakistani national has been charged by U.S. authorities for his role in a scheme that involved bribing employees of telecommunications giant AT&T to help unlock phones and plant malware on the...

Judge allows suit against AT&T after $24 million cryptocurrency theft
2019-07-23 19:28

It's usually not possible to reverse fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions.

Cygilant and AT&T Cybersecurity deliver MDR capabilities to AlienVault USM Anywhere users
2019-05-08 01:30

Cygilant, leading provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service mid-sized organizations, announced that it has joined the AT&T Cybersecurity Partner Program to help AlienVault USM Anywhere customers with...