Satellites found exposing unencrypted data, including phone calls and some military comms

Security researchers have discovered that as many as half of all geostationary satellites in Earth’s orbit are carrying unencrypted sensitive consumer, corporate, and military information, making this data wide open to eavesdropping. The researchers at UC San Diego and the Read More …

Microsoft terminates services for Israeli military after investigation into mass surveillance of Palestinians

Microsoft has terminated a set of services for the Israeli military after an investigation suggested Israel was using the company’s cloud computing technology for mass surveillance of Palestinians. In a statement posted the company’s blog, Microsoft President Brad Smith said Read More …

South Korea’s KT admits data breach

KT Corp has become the second South Korean mobile operator this year to report a cybersecurity breach to the country’s data protection authorities, with the operator confirming on Thursday that 5,561 customers may have had their subscriber data stolen by Read More …

Orange Belgium informs its customers about a cyberattack

At the end of July, Orange Belgium detected a cyberattack on one of its IT systems, resulting in unauthorised access to certain data from 850,000 customer accounts. No critical data was compromised: no passwords, email addresses, bank or financial details Read More …

Australia’s second-largest internet provider iiNet customers’ data exposed in cyber attack

Hundreds of thousands of customers of Australia’s second-largest internet provider have had their email addresses or phone numbers compromised in a cyber attack. A list of about 280,000 active email addresses and roughly 20,000 active landline phone numbers were extracted Read More …

Bouygues Telecom data breach could affect millions of customers

French telco giatn Bouygues Telecom has confirmed suffering a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive customer data. In a short announcement published on its website, the company said it detected the attack on August 4, and following an investigation, determined Read More …

Telecom giant Orange warns of disruption amid ongoing cyberattack

Orange, a French telecommunications giant and one of the largest phone providers in the world, announced on Monday that it was the victim of an unspecified cyberattack. In the announcement, the company said that it detected a cyberattack “on one Read More …

US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion

Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort them by threatening to release stolen files, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. According to the DOJ, Wagenius, who went online with Read More …

A major security flaw in top eSIM system could put billions of devices at risk

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in eSIM technology used in virtually all smartphones and many other internet-connected, smart devices. In theory, the flaw could have been abused to intercept or manipulate communications, extract sensitive data, inject malicious applets, and Read More …