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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.

Reddit is down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps. According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.

Reddit down in outage that blocks access to web and mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

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Unphishable mobile MFA through hardware keys
2023-01-30 15:07

Passwords are a mess, MFA can be more of a stopgap than a solution to phishing and running your own public key infrastructure for certificates is a lot of work. Ironically, if you're a security-aware organization in a regulated industry that already did the hard work of adopting the previous gold standard - smartcards that hold a security certificate and validate it against a certificate authority on your infrastructure - you might find yourself stuck running ADFS as you try to move to the new FIDO keys.

How hackers stole the personal data of 37 million T-Mobile customers
2023-01-24 20:41

T-Mobile and millions of its customers have been the victims of another data breach - this one apparently carried out by hackers who knew how to exploit an application programing interface used by the carrier. The API did not leak other personal data such as payment card numbers, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, passwords, or PINs, according to T-Mobile.

T-Mobile admits to 37,000,000 customer records stolen by “bad actor”
2023-01-20 19:59

US mobile phone provider T-Mobile has just admitted to getting hacked, in a filing known as an 8-K that was submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, 2023-01-19. On January 5, 2023, T-Mobile US [] identified that a bad actor was obtaining data through a single Application Programming Interface without authorization.

Roaming Mantis Spreading Mobile Malware That Hijacks Wi-Fi Routers' DNS Settings
2023-01-20 16:33

Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.