Comment 1-man-consulting-company == Tech Executive? (Score 2) 100
gimme a break
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach, Affecting 37 Million Accounts (cnet.com) 30
The nation's second-largest wireless carrier on Thursday disclosed that a "bad actor" took advantage of one of its application programming interfaces to gain data on "approximately 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts." CNET reports: In an 8K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the carrier says that it was able to trace and stop the "malicious activity" within a day of learning about it. T-Mobile also says that the API that was used does not allow for access to "any customer payment card information, Social Security numbers/tax IDs, driver's license or other government ID numbers, passwords/PINs or other financial account information." According to the filing, the carrier believes that the breach first occurred "on or around" Nov. 25, 2022. The carrier didn't learn that a "bad actor" was getting data from its systems until Jan. 5.
The company's API, however, did reveal other user information, including names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and birth dates of its customers, their T-Mobile account numbers, and information on which plan features they have with the carrier and the number of lines on their accounts. The company said in the SEC filing that it has "begun notifying customers whose information may have been obtained by the bad actor in accordance with applicable state and federal requirements." In 2021, T-Mobile suffered a data breach that exposed data of roughly 76.6 million people. "T-Mobile agreed to a $500 million settlement in the case in July, with $350 million going to settle customer claims from a class action lawsuit and $150 million going to upgrade its data protection system," adds CNET.
The company's API, however, did reveal other user information, including names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and birth dates of its customers, their T-Mobile account numbers, and information on which plan features they have with the carrier and the number of lines on their accounts. The company said in the SEC filing that it has "begun notifying customers whose information may have been obtained by the bad actor in accordance with applicable state and federal requirements." In 2021, T-Mobile suffered a data breach that exposed data of roughly 76.6 million people. "T-Mobile agreed to a $500 million settlement in the case in July, with $350 million going to settle customer claims from a class action lawsuit and $150 million going to upgrade its data protection system," adds CNET.
Comment real threat (Score 1) 159
>have put India under the threat to be termed as the hub of such illegal call centres
oh yeah, that'll teach em
Comment Re:AirBNB? (Score 1) 30
It's fairly common to use streaming services in an airbnb especially after a long day out-n-about. Good way to occupy the kids before bed
Comment How do you go from... (Score 3, Insightful) 52
"Find Solution To Building Superconductor That Could Transform Technology (phys.org)"
to
"The lattice they built has not been tested for superconductivity, for now, but it offers proof of principle and has great potential for the future, the researchers say." ?
to
"The lattice they built has not been tested for superconductivity, for now, but it offers proof of principle and has great potential for the future, the researchers say." ?
Comment Re:dumb (Score 1) 152
Its not perfect, but whats the alternative at this point? Only a small percentage of the population will receive a vaccine by next summer. If a population of concertgoers receive a combination of vaccines and time-limited tests, it may be enough to achieve "herd immunity" within an arena or club for a small amount of time.
The music industry needs _something_ to re-open at scale. Otherwise you can kiss that industry goodbye - i'm sure many could argue thats a good thing - but their artists (indie or not) will suffer nonetheless.
Comment All of 'em (Score 1) 87
Installer 1: Hey, I plugged it in and everyone is showing up red. Is this thing broken?
Installer 2: Our work here is done.
Installer 2: Our work here is done.
Comment Glassdoor? (Score 1) 91
How is this any different than my employer encouraging me to leave positive reviews of the company on Glassdoor? We should probably be banned as well...
Comment Re:This years zika (Score 3, Informative) 146
I'm waiting for west nile to return. Maybe in 20 years.
Well thats ironic, because people die every year from west nile. 84 in 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:After the 2016 election (Score 1) 391
Certainly one person can't save a planet, but a US administration can set reasonable policy to put us in a direction to do so over the course of several decades.
The alternative is to let corporations drive themselves towards that goal, which would likely not happen due to profit motivations unless they're forward-looking enough to understand that a shitty climate will indeed impact their sales and supply chain.
Someone's gotta take the lead at some point...
Comment Re:Some Company Information Please (Score 3, Informative) 418
The author in the reddit thread (in a buried comment) describes it as a 100+ company with at least 40 devs. Pretty sad
Comment Re:Just Slashdot (Score 1) 113
I think Google is also updating their search rank algos to reduce scores for pages that don't show much content above-the-fold shortly after page load.
Comment Re:Um (Score -1, Offtopic) 492
think about it before you just start typing shit that comes into your head.
If only our president-elect could take your advice...
Comment Spotify (Score 1) 102
I know Spotify is a major user of an embedded Chrome app. Wonder how this will affect their desktop apps.
Comment Police (Score 1) 192
"It also poses a complication for some local and state laws, like Utah's proposed HB 420, which would let police shoot down drones in emergency situations
Why would this be complicated? Police shoot down humans and get away with it all the time
