Ransomware attacks increased 13% in the past 12 months, according to the Verizon Business 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (2022 DBIR). About 80% of the attacks came from organized crime, the report said. Additionally, heightened worldwide tensions, such as that…
Service providers that have been offering software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) for several years more recently have entered or have been exploring the secure access service edge (SASE) market – a market that some see having tremendous growth potential….
The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau today is continuing to take actions against telecom vendors that the agency perceives to be a threat to national security. The latest companies whose equipment or services have been deemed to be…
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has asked the Commission to consider examining vulnerabilities of the Internet’s global routing system as a result of potential risks to cybersecurity stemming from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. If Rosenworcel’s proposal is adopted by a vote of…
Vint Cerf, sometimes called the “father” of the Internet has three recommendations for how to use the tens of billions of dollars of funding that the government has made available for broadband. Some funding should go toward education, Cerf told…
The FCC today published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) designed to start the process of strengthening the agency’s requirements for notifying customers and federal law enforcement of breaches of customer proprietary network information (CPNI). The agency pointed out that…
AT&T is introducing a managed firewall service for business customers undertaking private 5G network deployments. The offering is the first in what the carrier said will be a portfolio of 5G security offerings. The managed firewall offering is designed to…
AT&T today unveiled a managed extended detection and response (XDR) offering featuring a cloud-based security platform with security threat analytics, machine learning and third-party connectors. The solution is designed to protect endpoint, network, and cloud assets with automated and orchestrated…
T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert today posted a blog post on the company’s website to update customers on the status of the cyberattack earlier this month and the steps the company has taken since. “The last two weeks have been humbling…
As hacking attempts – successful and unsuccessful – continuing to grow, Verizon is examining a technology that the carrier thinks might have promise in protecting data from breach attempts. The hacking issue is of particular concern to small and medium-size…
Published reports say that a T-Mobile hack resulted in a breach that could affect as many as 100 million customers. Data breaches exposed nearly 188 million customer records in the first half of the year, according to one report. Among…
Rasomware-as-a-Service is growing while low-return, mass ransomware attacks are decreasing, according to a new report from security company McAfee Corp. McAfee’s June 2021 threats report said that cryptocurrency-generating Coin Miner malware attacks grew by 117%, while attacks involving Mirai-based malware…
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