The hacker suspected of launching a series of major breaches involving data stored on Snowflake accounts was arrested in Canada last week after a request was issued by US officials. The individual in question, Alexander "Connor" Moucka (aka Judische and Waifu), was apprehended on 30 October 2024, on the basis of a provisional arrest warrant, following a request by the US.[1] The arrest of Moucka was first reported by Bloomberg and 404Media on earlier this week. “He appeared in court later tha
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China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon (FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor) breached US broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, which reported the news exclusively, the security breach poses a major national security risk. The WSJ states that the compromise remained undisclosed due to possible impact on na
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without consent. The fines mark the culmination of a more than four-year investigation into the actions of the major carriers. In February 2020, the FCC notified all four wireless providers that their practices of sharing access to customer location data
After a nationwide outage last week left tens of thousands of frustrated AT&T and Verizon customers without wireless cellphone service, many were left wondering what caused the interruption.
Faulty equipment? Hackers? Solar flares?
As it turns out, the answer was bad coding on the part of AT&T, the company said late last week. Before that announcement, rumors circulated online that solar flares might've been responsible for the outage, which caught the attention of scientists at the National Oc
