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A newly discovered botnet capable of staging distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted unpatched Ribbon Communications (formerly Edgewater Networks) EdgeMarc appliances belonging to telecom service provider AT&T by exploiting a four-year-old flaw in the network appliances. Chinese tech giant Qihoo 360’s Netlab network security division, which detected the botnet first on October 27, 2021, called it […]
A US district court sentenced Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, for 12 years for leading a 7-year-long scheme to defraud AT&T. According to the US Department of Justice, Fahd unlocked 1.9 million AT&T phones despite knowing that an investigation was launched against him. Judge Robert S. Lasnik stated while sentencing the accused […]
The alleged AT&T database is being sold for starting price of $200,000. ShinyHunters, the notorious hacker is claiming to have access to the AT&T database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 70 million customers. For your information, AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of mobile telephone services in the U.S. and also the […]
A recruiter from AT&T charged in a 14-count, U.S to have a paid insiders to planting malware on telecommunications giant AT&T Network for committing unauthorized access and computer networks to unlock cellphones. Muhammad Fahd, 34, was arrested in Hong Kong on Feb. 4, 2018, and extradited to the United States for the indictment that alleges […]
The Intercept, the publication known for its groundbreaking reports, has come up with another revealing piece (via TechCrunch) about the National Security Agency. The report describes 8 AT&T data facilities that serve as hubs for NSA’s spying activities. The eight facilities are located in major US cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, LA, New York City, San […]
We might have a hint, but we never let our brain trick us into the fact that real-time tracking has made way past movies. A breaking story by NY Times has uncovered Securus Technologies — a US-based company that runs a service for monitoring calls to prison inmates. The technology can do a lot more than […]
The security vulnerability was discovered in the Linksys WVBR0-25 wireless video bridge, which was designed to enable the main Genie DVR to communicate over the air with clients’ Genie client boxes (up to 8) that are plugged into their televisions around the home. The vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2017-17411) has been discovered by Ricky Lawshae (security […]
The power of open source enables the developers belonging to any part of the world to access tools needed for their work and create something new. To make similar strides in the field of Artificial Intelligence, The Linux Foundation has introduced the Acumos Project. The founding organizations of Acumos Project are AT&T and Tech Mahindra. […]
Unfortunately, it looks like the method is still in effect. Philip Neustrom, the co-founder of Shotwell Labs, lately found two demo websites that would pass account details if you visited from a mobile connection. By simply inserting a zip code and clicking a button, the site would spit out the full name, current location, and […]
An alert from Carnegie Mellon University CERT database reveals how Android devices are affected by LTE security flaw and use for DDoS attacks. The alert says nearly all the users on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks are vulnerable to denial of service attacks (DDoS) from the hackers. The most vulnerable are the android users on […]
AT&T has filed a lawsuit against 3 former call center employees, accusing them of installing malware on their servers with the purpose of aiding a phone unlocking service in obtaining AT&T unlock codes. Almost all mobile carriers around the globe sell phones together with their mobile plans. These phones are usually locked, so customers won’t […]