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TalkTalk’s systems breached, subscribers’ info stolen and used in scams

Feb27
by on February 27, 2015 at 9:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Cyberattacks, hack, Insider, UK

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UK-based phone, TV and broadband service provider TalkTalk confirmed today that its networks were breached last December. The company said that users’ personal data — including names, addresses, phone numbers and TalkTalk account numbers — was stolen. A TalkTalk spokesperson said: “At the end of last year, we saw an increase in malicious scammers preying on our customers. In a small number of cases, customers told us that the criminals were quoting their TalkTalk account number as well as their phone number. As part of our ongoing approach to security we continually test our systems and processes and following further…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

TalkTalk’s systems breached, subscribers’ info stolen and used in scams

Feb27
by on February 27, 2015 at 9:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Cyberattacks, hack, Insider, UK

Hacking security
UK-based phone, TV and broadband service provider TalkTalk confirmed today that its networks were breached last December. The company said that users’ personal data — including names, addresses, phone numbers and TalkTalk account numbers — was stolen. A TalkTalk spokesperson said: “At the end of last year, we saw an increase in malicious scammers preying on our customers. In a small number of cases, customers told us that the criminals were quoting their TalkTalk account number as well as their phone number. As part of our ongoing approach to security we continually test our systems and processes and following further…

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Apple is being sued again by the same company that got half a billion dollars in its last lawsuit

Feb27
by on February 27, 2015 at 7:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, lawsuit, patents, Smartflash

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Apple is being sued for the second time by Texas-based patent holder Smartflash LLC for infringing the same patents brought up in the last case. The difference this time around is that it involves the use of Smartflash’s technology in newer devices launched after the original case went to trial, reports Reuters. The new complaint was filed on Wednesday in the same court in the city of Tyler, where Apple was ordered to pay nearly $533 million for infringing Smartflash’s patents. The company claims that the previous case did not cover Apple’s use of its technology in recent devices like…

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