The Nigerian SIM Cards and related GSM network services critical vulnerabilities .

There are three (3) new and previously undetected critical vulnerabilities in Nigerian SIM cards and related GSM network critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims:

The “SimJacker” vulnerability

The SIM vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser (a dynamic SIM toolkit), embedded on most SIM cards that are widely being used by mobile operators in at least 30 cou...

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• 4 years ago

Scammers Expose Facebook Data Haul of 13 Million Records

Phil Muncaster UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine

 Security researchers have uncovered a major Facebook scam exploiting hundreds of thousands of users, after the scammers left an Elasticsearch server unsecured. Among the 5.5GB haul discovered by vpnMentor on September 21, was 150,000-200,000 Facebook usernames and passwords, and personal info including emails, names and phone numbers for hundreds of...

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• 4 years ago

TeamTNT Attack Highlights the Need for Cloud Governance

Danny Bradbury Contributing Writer

 We’ve all heard about people exposing vast databases by accident in the cloud, but what about those hapless cloud admins that hand over the reins to their container-based applications? It’s a growing trend, and it’s a symptom of the same problem: poor configuration.

In September, a cybercrime group called TeamTNT attacked cloud infrast...

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• 4 years ago

Defend Yourself Against Dark Data

Amar Kanagaraj Founder & CEO, oneDPO

 Despite the scary term, dark data is neither technically evil nor contains dark content. To grasp the importance of dark data, we must understand the term and its broader implications. What is dark data? Organizations routinely collect an exceptionally large amount of data that they hope will help them make better decisions and achieve growth.