It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm’s analysis of the data suggests it corresponds to current and former customers of AT&T. The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company. Continue reading It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

Black Hat USA 2022 video walkthrough

In this Help Net Security video, we take you inside Black Hat USA 2022 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The video features the following vendors: Abnormal Security, Adaptive Shield, Airgap, Akamai, Anomali, Arctic Wolf Networks, Aris… Continue reading Black Hat USA 2022 video walkthrough

Retrotechtacular: The Forgotten Vacuum Tube A/D Converters of 1965

In any era, the story of electronics has very much been about figuring out how to make something happen with what’s available at the time. And as is often the …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Forgotten Vacuum Tube A/D Converters of 1965

AT&T launches SASE with Cisco Meraki to help protect businesses from malicious web-based threats

AT&T is introducing AT&T SASE with Cisco Meraki designed to provide businesses of nearly any size and industry with a powerful networking and security offering. This new managed service helps organizations improve network performance, enable re… Continue reading AT&T launches SASE with Cisco Meraki to help protect businesses from malicious web-based threats

Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

When KrebsOnSecurity last month explored how cybercriminals were using hacked email accounts at police departments worldwide to obtain warrantless Emergency Data Requests (EDRs) from social media and technology providers, many security experts called it a fundamentally unfixable problem. But don’t tell that to Matt Donahue, a former FBI agent who recently quit the agency to launch a startup that aims to help tech companies do a better job screening out phony law enforcement data requests — in part by assigning trustworthiness or “credit ratings” to law enforcement authorities worldwide. Continue reading Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police

Sequans Communications achieves CC EAL5+ certification for GSMA-compliant iUICC support

Sequans Communications announced that the GSMA-compliant integrated SIM (iUICC) is now Common Criteria certified and available on its second generation LTE-M/NB-IoT chip, Monarch 2. Integrated SIM, whereby the SIM is integrated directly into the chip, … Continue reading Sequans Communications achieves CC EAL5+ certification for GSMA-compliant iUICC support

Your supply chain: How and why network security and infrastructure matter

With digital transformation, the rapid adoption of cloud computing and the IoT, and the global scale of today’s supply chains, cybercriminals have more entry points to networks and access to data than ever before. In the past year alone, cyberattacks o… Continue reading Your supply chain: How and why network security and infrastructure matter