The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.
AT&T said the hacked data did not include the content of calls and text messages. At this point, the exposed data is not believed to be publicly available.
Still bad, but it could have been far worse.
That said, I would bet that if this hasn’t already happened to most other carriers and it hasn’t been made public yet, it will happen soon enough.
Given all the security training and certifications required to work in network security,
Certifications cannot verify creativity, it’s why they’re kind of useless for a lot of IT(and I suppose other engineering fields). Security like QA requires exploring unique paths that other people wouldn’t have thought of
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Still bad, but it could have been far worse.
That said, I would bet that if this hasn’t already happened to most other carriers and it hasn’t been made public yet, it will happen soon enough.
That assumes every carrier has terrible security.
…which is probably a safe bet.
Given all the security training and certifications required to work in network security, I’m shocked that security is routinely so terrible.
If paying the penalty for a breach is cheaper than preventing a breach…
I don’t think not knowing what to do is the problem. It’s more that the people who control the budgets don’t think it’s a priority.
“What do we even pay you for?” / “What do we even pay you for?”
Certifications cannot verify creativity, it’s why they’re kind of useless for a lot of IT(and I suppose other engineering fields). Security like QA requires exploring unique paths that other people wouldn’t have thought of
Yup that’s my guess too