Tag: AT&T

February 23, 2024

The outage knocked out cellphone service for thousands of its users across the U.S. starting early Thursday before it was restored. AT&T blamed the incident on an error in coding, without elaborating. “Based on our initial review, we believe that […]

August 21, 2023

Threat actors are leveraging access to malware-infected Windows and macOS machines to deliver a proxy server application and use them as exit nodes to reroute proxy requests. According to AT&T Alien Labs, the unnamed company that offers the proxy service […]

March 10, 2023

AT&T is informing customers about a data breach at a vendor’s system that allowed threat actors to gain access to AT&T’s Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI). The incident came to light after customers posted the email communication from AT&T on […]

September 20, 2021

The Pakistani national Muhammad Fahd (35) was sentenced to 12 years of prison in the United States for his primary role in a seven-year scheme to illegally unlock nearly 2 million AT&T phones. Fahd was the mind behind a criminal […]

August 12, 2021

LOCATION DATA SHARING from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were able to pay shadowy third-party companies to track where people have been, using information that carriers gathered from […]

December 6, 2019

Names, addresses, phone numbers, call and text message records and account PINs were all caught up in a cloud misconfiguration. Hundreds of thousands of mobile phone bills for AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers have been laid open to anyone with […]

August 13, 2019

A U.S. senator has put telecommunication companies – AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon – on notice for their data collection and retention policies. Last week, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent an open letter to the CEOs of the four […]

August 8, 2019

The US government has extradited 34-year-old Muhammad Fahd from Hong Kong and charged him for his part in a criminal scheme that is said to have cost AT&T millions of dollars. Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan, is alleged to have […]

September 1, 2017

Trivially exploitable vulnerabilities have been discovered in several Arris home modems, routers and gateways distributed to consumers and small businesses through AT&T’s U-verse service. It’s unknown yet whether the firmware vulnerabilities were introduced by the OEM or the ISP since […]

March 14, 2016

It seems AT&T learned that lesson last year when it agreed to pay $25 million to settle an investigation into data breaches at call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. Those breaches led to the disclosure of personal information […]

February 11, 2016

AT&T’s CEO believes that the company should not offer robust security to its customers: But tech company leaders aren’t all joining the fight against the deliberate weakening of encryption. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said this week that AT&T, Apple, and […]

August 16, 2015

There’s a new article, published jointly by The New York Times and ProPublica, about NSA’s longstanding relationship with AT&T. It’s based on the Snowden documents, and there is a bunch of new pages published. AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad […]

February 24, 2015

#at&t is charging a premium for gigabit Internet service without surveillance: The #tracking and ad targeting associated with the gigabit service cannot be avoided using browser #privacy settings: as AT&T explained, the program “works independently of your browser’s privacy settings […]