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A swift esponse to a major outage can make a big difference in regards to retaining customer confidence. Continue reading What the AT&T Outage Can Teach Organizations About Customer Communication and IT Best Practices
Luc Vidal-Madjar, head of IoT solutions, BICS, discusses the integration SIM and its implications for businesses.
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Isracard used a single cell phone to communicate with credit card clients, and receive documents via WhatsApp. An employee stole the phone. He reformatted the phone and replaced the SIM card, which was oddly the best possible outcome, given the circums… Continue reading Security Risks of Relying on a Single Smartphone
A vulnerability in smartphone technology has made it possible for outsiders to conduct targeted surveillance against victims for the past two years, according to new security findings. Researchers from AdaptiveMobile Security said Thursday they found an SMS-based hacking technique that actively is being exploited by a spyware vendor to track individual phone users. The company did not disclose who is behind the surveillance or the identities of the victims. Researchers warned that the attack, dubbed “Simjacker,” has ramifications for more than 1 billion mobile phones worldwide. By relying on malicious text messages, hackers infect target phones to retrieve location information and other data. The attack leverages SIM cards, a circuit that stores customers’ international mobile subscriber information in a way that isn’t restricted to a single phone platform. “This is potentially the most sophisticated attack ever seen over core mobile networks,” Cathal Mc Daid, AdaptiveMobile Security’s chief technology officer, said in a […]
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International telecommunications fraud — a broad category that includes everything from consumer scams to corporate ripoffs — costs over €29 billion (roughly $33 billion) per year, according to a report published Thursday by Europol and Trend Micro. The fraud isn’t just costly, it’s also endlessly frustrating for the companies and for law enforcement, the report’s authors say. The illicit activities range from tricking individuals into divulging their personal information to perpetrating international revenue share fraud — a complex scheme inspired in part by traditional money laundering techniques. “Geopolitically, most telecom crime tends to be addressed by the telecom companies themselves,” the report states. “The costs are absorbed as the cost of doing business. This creates a kind of isolation, however. Without thorough cross-border intelligence sharing and intelligence fusion with law enforcement, the source, investigative method, and evidence cannot be connected in a way that results in a meaningful number of arrests […]
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A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks is the first person to be sentenced for the crime. Continue reading Hacker Who Stole $5 Million By SIM Swapping Gets 10 Years in Prison
An investor is asking AT&T to pay $220 million in damages in the first-ever lawsuit that attempts to hold carriers accountable for port out scams. Continue reading Bitcoin Investor Sues AT&T After Losing $23 Million In SIM Swap Hack
Social apps like WhatsApp and Facebook are lifelines between members of the African diaspora. Continue reading Cameroon’s Internet Has Been Cut For Four Weeks With No End in Sight