Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2016
AT&T has been data-mining and willingly sharing user phone data, through its “Hemisphere” Project, which is essentially a mass surveillance program. The NSA may be the well-known governmental entity notorious for conducting spy surveillance of its citizens and its massive record retention program, but the private sector is also capitalizing on such opportunities. AT&T, a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2015
The US National Security Agency has utilized an exceptional, decades-old association with AT&T to snoop on Internet utilization, as per recently uncovered reports spilled by Edward Snowden. The archives gave by the previous NSA foreman and checked on by The New York Times and ProPublica portrayed a “profoundly synergistic” telecom titan that showed a “great […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
Computer programmer Dani Grant revealed that short codes from AT&T are easy to spoof and expose customers to phishing scams. AT&T customers are exposed phishing attacks due to proprietary AT&T’s text protocols. Computer programmer Dani Grant discovered that is quite easy to spoof text messages from AT&T. In this variant of “Phishing” attacks, crooks attempt to trick victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2014
The American multinational giant AT&T confirmed to have suffered a data breach last April, personal data of an unknown number of users was exposed. The American multinational telecommunications corporation AT&T confirmed to have suffered a data breach last April, personal information of an unknown number of users was accessed by employees of one of its contractor. AT&T […]
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