Wireless network operator T-Mobile has suffered yet another data breach.
And we shouldn’t be at all surprised if fraudsters use the information that they have stolen to send convincing phishing messages and scams.
From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China:
According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.
Thanks to technical “workarounds,” Royal Mail has been able to resume “limited” export services one week after being hit by cyber-attack
Aside from using it for calls and texting, we use our smartphones for plenty of things. We’re sending money with payment apps. We’re doing our banking. And we’re using them to set the alarm, turn our lights on and off, see who’s at the front door, and for some of us, even start our cars. The smartphone is evolving, and in many ways, it’s become the “universal remote control” of our lives. And that means it needs protection.
Truly, think about all that you do from the palm of your hand. Your phone connects you to so many essential things, it’s tough to think what the day would be like without it—or worse yet, if your phone got stolen or lost. Maybe you know the feeling. That rising panic when you misplace your phone and then the relief you feel when you find it.
Yet you have plenty of ways you can protect yourself and your phone, not only from loss and theft but from hacks and attacks too.
Comprehensive online protection software can protect your phone in the same ways that it protects your laptops and computers. Installing it can protect your privacy, keep you safe from attacks on public Wi-Fi, and automatically block unsafe websites and links, just to name a few things it can do.
Updates do all kinds of great things for gaming, streaming, and chatting apps, like add more features and functionality over time. Updates do something else—they make those apps more secure. Hackers will hammer away at apps to find or create vulnerabilities, which can steal personal info or compromise the device itself. Updates will often include security improvements, in addition to performance improvements.
iPhones update apps automatically by default, yet you can learn how to turn them back on here if they’ve been set to manual updates. For Android phones, this article can help you set apps to auto-update if they aren’t set that way already.
Much the same goes for the operating system on smartphones too. Updates can bring more features and more security. iOS users can learn how to update their phones automatically in this article. Likewise, Android users can refer to this article about automatic updates for their phones.
Fewer people use a lock screen than you might think. A finding from our recent global research showed that only 56% of adults said that they protect their smartphone with a password or passcode. The problem with going unlocked is that if the phone gets lost or stolen, you’ve basically handed over a large portion of your digital life to a thief. Setting up a lock screen is easy. It’s a simple feature found in both iOS and Android devices.
So what happens if your phone actually ends up getting lost or stolen? A combination of device tracking, device locking, and remote erasing can help protect your phone and the data on it. Different device manufacturers have different ways of going about it, but the result is the same—you can you’re your phone, prevent others from using it, and even erase it if you’re truly worried that it’s in the wrong hands or simply gone for good. Apple provides iOS users with a step-by-step guide, and Google offers up a guide for Android users as well.
One way hackers work their way into smartphones is through malicious apps that pose as photo editors, VPNs, and games—yet are loaded with malware that spy on your activity or steal account information. Google Play and Apple’s App Store have measures in place to review apps to help ensure that they are safe and secure. Granted, cybercriminals have found ways to work around Google and Apple’s review process, yet they’re quick to remove malicious apps once discovered. Yet third-party app stores and websites likely have no such protections in place. In fact, some third-party sites may intentionally host malicious apps as part of a scam. Stick with the official app stores for a far safer phone.
Truly, we hold so much in the palm of our hand. Our smartphones connect us to our friends and family, work and livelihoods, banking and finances, and even our homes and the smart devices in them. It’s no exaggeration to say that a good portion of daily life courses through our smartphones. And when we look at them that way, it puts the importance of protecting them in a whole new light.
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AT&T Cybersecurity received the Palo Alto Networks 2022 Partner of the Year Award for its managed security services at the annual Palo Alto Networks Ignite 2022 conference. The awards are presented to an elite group of Palo Alto Networks partners that have excelled in performance, enablement, and engagement over the past year.
In an era where security collaboration continues to grow in importance, AT&T Cybersecurity stressed the significance of its relationship with Palo Alto Networks. Danessa Lambdin, President of AT&T Cybersecurity explains:
As one of the largest MSSPs in the world, we are in a unique position to help secure innovation at scale and bring those lessons learned to our broader customer base. Our technology alliances are a fundamental part of evolving our cybersecurity services to meet our customer needs today and tomorrow. AT&T has long worked with Palo Alto Networks, building new services atop their technology platforms to meet tomorrow’s security challenges, especially as customers move to the cloud and edge.
By maintaining a strong relationship with Palo Alto Networks, AT&T Cybersecurity is able to provide cutting-edge security products while leveraging its managed services to make security more accessible by offering trainings, consulting, and management. Don Jones, senior vice present of Ecosystems at Palo Alto Networks states:
Palo Alto Networks partners share our vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. Now more than ever, a trusted ecosystem of partners is essential to enabling organizations to easily, more confidently, and more securely transform. We’re proud to recognize AT&T Cybersecurity as Palo Alto Networks 2022 Partner of the Year and we look forward to our continued work together helping mutual customers achieve better security outcomes.
AT&T Cybersecurity combines cybersecurity with consulting services to help organizations meet their network transformation goals. With AT&T’s support, overcome resource obstacles and ease the burden on short-staffed, in-house teams by working with AT&T’s cyber experts to identify and understand cybersecurity risks and exposures, thereby making it safer for businesses to innovate through network resiliency.
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Telecom player T-Mobile US has suffered a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the exposure of personal details of 37 million users, the company reported in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
Customer data such as customer name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number and information such as the number of lines on the account and plan features were exposed, the company revealed.
However, T-Mobile in a statement insisted that customer payment card information (PCI), social security numbers/tax IDs, driver’s license or other government ID numbers, passwords/PINs or other financial account information were not exposed, it .
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