Tag: privacy
Elon Musk Has Radical Solution for A2P SMS Fraud: Twitter Turns Off 2-Factor Authentication by SMS
Comms providers will fear other businesses may follow Twitter's lead by telling users to adopt different modes of authentication.
Singtel Sets Aside AUD140mn to Cover Cost of Optus Privacy Breach
Singtel CEO Yuen Kuan Moon said "there is much work to be done" to restore confidence in Australia's second-largest mobile operator.
How Private is Pretty Good Phone Privacy?
The creators of PGPP want to protect users from IMSI-catchers and location monitoring by rotating IMSIs and obfuscating geography but their methods are unlikely to scale and have important drawbacks.
Survey Says One-Tenth of Optus Customers Churned after Massive Data Breach
Australians who google the words 'Optus' and 'cancellation' are shown adverts begging them to give the operator another chance.
Is It a Good Idea to Offer to Disguise IMSIs?
A new pseudo-network offers privacy-conscious mobile phone users the ability to change their IMSI at the press of a button.
Massive Privacy Breach at Optus
The CEO of the Australian telco immediately apologized but sources says up to 9 million customers may be affected because foreign hackers exploited a leaky API.
Twitter Is ‘Terrified’ of French Regulator and 6 other Takeaways from Whistleblower’s Senate Testimony
Former Twitter exec Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko described flaws with the company's security and with US privacy protections in general.
Police Like Gathering Phone Data; Why Is This News?
US police cut costs and worked around the need for court warrants by buying location data gathered by apps on 250mn phones. But there is no great outrage because we are complacent about privacy.
What the Theft of the Verizon Employee Database Tells Us about Security Threats
The telco played down the importance of the breach whilst the hacker mocked 'idiot' employees for believing he was from PC support.
Newspaper Says Israeli Police Used Pegasus for Warrantless Spying on Phones
Court orders to permit surveillance were reportedly only requested if incriminating evidence had already been found using Pegasus.
Would You Implant a Phone-Readable COVID Passport Microchip in Your Hand?
This article is really about some dubious Swedish businessmen and why the world's media gave them free advertising.
FCC Commissioner Seeks to Ban ‘Huawei on Wings’ Drone Manufacturer
Brendan Carr says DJI, which has a 50% share of the US drone market, extracts data from the phones of users and sends it to China.