Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device -- unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection. Heres...

T-Mobile Faces Yet Another Data Breach

T-Mobile USA has reported a data breach – its fourth in three years. The wireless carrier disclosed the breach last week via its website, saying that it detected and shut down “malicious, unauthorized access to some information” related to T-Mobile accounts. Specifically, that data consisted of...

T-Mobile confirms another data breach exposing user call records, phone numbers

By Deeba Ahmed T-Mobile revealed attackers accessed its Customer proprietary network information CPNI, putting the private data of hundreds of thousands of customers at risk. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: T-Mobile confirms another data breach exposing user call records,...

AT&T Hit By Insider Breach

AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users. The compromised data includes Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers. In a letter sent to the Vermont attorney general, AT&T official...

CPNI Releases Paper on Improving Defenses Against Targeted Attack

The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI has released a report on its “Improving Defenses Against Targeted Attack" iDATA cyber research program. The report contains descriptions and outcomes from a number of projects aimed at addressing threats posed by natio...

UK CPNI Releases Spear Phishing Paper

The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI has recently released a paper titled "Spear Phishing - Understanding the Threat;" this document provides guidance on how spear phishing attacks work, whether you are likely to be a target, and the steps organizations c...

libarchive does not properly terminate loop

Overview libarchive contains a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. Description The libarchive library provides an interface for reading and writing archive files.There is a vulnerability in libarchive that occurs when it parses the pax interchange format. If an...

ProCheckUp Security Advisory 2007.19

PR07-19: Cross-site Scripting XSS / HTML injection on Webbler CMS admin login page 2 This advisory has been published following consultation with UK CPNI formerly known as NISCC Date Found: 14th June 2007 Successfully tested on: Webbler CMS version 3.1.3. Earlier versions are possibly affected as...