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Satellites lack standard security mechanisms found in mobile phones and laptops
2023-07-14 04:30

Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken have assessed the security mechanisms of satellites currently orbiting the Earth from an IT perspective. They analyzed three current low-earth orbit satellites and found that, from a technical point of view, only some modern security concepts were implemented.

Microsoft's Outlook.com is down again on mobile, web
2023-06-05 20:13

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Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers
2023-05-11 17:58

Black Hat Asia Threat groups have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices have even been shipped from their manufacturers, according to Trend Micro researchers at Black Hat Asia. The mainly mobile devices, but also smartwatches, TVs and more, have their manufacturing outsourced to an original equipment manufacturer, a process the researchers say makes them easily infiltrated.

T-Mobile US suffers second data theft within months
2023-05-08 04:31

In brief We'd say you'll never guess which telco admitted to a security breakdown last week, but you totally will: T-Mobile US, and for the second time this year. "The information obtained for each customer varied, but may have included full name, contact information, account number and associated phone numbers, T-Mobile account PIN, social security number, government ID, date of birth, balance due, internal codes that T-Mobile uses to service customer accounts, and the number of lines," the "Un-carrier" explained in its letter.

How To Create Seamless Digital Experiences For Web And Mobile
2023-05-04 14:04

The most important thing to create a seamless digital experience for the web and mobile is to adopt new technologies and trends. The best solution to deal with such issues and create a seamless digital experience for web and mobile is to rent out these devices from online digital experience testing platforms such as LambdaTest.

T-Mobile suffers second data breach this year
2023-05-03 10:27

T-Mobile has revealed a second data breach that occurred in 2023, which reportedly exposed customer data and account PINs, leaving many T-Mobile users vulnerable to potential fraud and identity theft."In March 2023, the measures we have in place to alert us to unauthorized activity worked as designed and we were able to determine that a bad actor gained access to limited information from a small number of T-Mobile accounts between late February and March 2023," T-Mobile explained in a letter to customers affected by the breach.

T-Mobile discloses second data breach since the start of 2023
2023-05-01 17:28

T-Mobile disclosed the second data breach of 2023 after discovering that attackers had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers for more than a month, starting late February 2023. "In March 2023, the measures we have in place to alert us to unauthorized activity worked as designed and we were able to determine that a bad actor gained access to limited information from a small number of T-Mobile accounts between late February and March 2023," the company said in data breach notification letters sent to affected individuals just before the weekend, on Friday, April 28, 2023.

Mobile device security policy
2023-04-24 12:00

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Reddit is down, not loading content for mobile app users
2023-04-12 19:08

Reddit is investigating a worldwide outage that prevents users from accessing the social network's website on mobile apps. Users are reporting being automatically logged out when opening the mobile app and seeing several types of content loading errors, including "No Internet," "Sorry, please try again later," and "Let's try that again."

Vietnam threatens to cut off two million mobile subscribers
2023-04-03 04:33

Almost two million mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam are at risk of having their services severed, thanks to a new government policy that seeks to curb spam. Of 127 million mobile phones in use in Vietnam, 96 percent connect to three mobile operators: Vinaphone, Viettel and MobiFone.