News
Hackers gained access to data of 200 thousand T-Mobile subscribers, including recordings of their calls
By information Bleeping Computer, late December 2020 hackers got access to data of 200 thousand subscribers of the American telecom operator T-mobile. The attackers also infiltrated the system where users’ call records are stored.
T-mobile told affected customers that hackers were able to break into a system that contains customer proprietary network information (CPNI). These are data: time, date, duration and destination number of each call, type of network to which the consumer is subscribed, number of lines, call records. This information for each customer is collected and stored by T-Mobile at the request of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
IS specialists of the telecom operator began to investigate this incident. They also blocked unauthorized access to T-Mobile customer data. The telecom operator promptly reported violations in its network to federal law enforcement agencies and continues to notify affected customers. T-Mobile did not clarify when the hackers gained access or how much data they were able to compromise. The telecom operator said that “a small number of customers (less than 0.2%) were affected”. T-Mobile has around 100 million users. It turns out that in the course of this incident, about 200 thousand customers were affected.
The telecom operator explained that the leaked data did not contain sensitive information about names, physical addresses, email addresses, financial and credit card details, social security numbers, tax IDs, passwords or customer PINs.
Previously, T-Mobile already had user data leaks. For example, in November 2019, hackers managed to steal the telecom operator has information on customers of prepaid wireless access points, including full name, registration address, telephone and contract numbers, current tariff plan.
Early 2020 Reddit Users reportedthat they started receiving messages from T-Mobile about their identity theft. Then the telecom operator has provided Affected clients have free access to the credit monitoring system and identity theft detection.
A report from T-Mobile about unauthorized access to a user’s personal data.
Components
$55 Orange Pi 14-inch monitor introduced. It is compatible with Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and various phones
The Orange Pi brand has unveiled its first external display. The device turned out to be thin (thickness does not exceed 15 mm) and compact – the diagonal is 14 inches.
Attention is focused on the wide compatibility of the Orange Pi display with game consoles. So, it can be connected to Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Sony PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles. For this, the display has two USB-C ports (one is combined with DisplayPort) and HDMI.
However, compatibility is not limited to consoles alone. The screen connects to various Huawei, Samsung, Oppo, Asus, Black Shark (and other brands) phones, as well as various models of Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi, Lenovo, HP, Dell and Asus mobile computers.
Monitor screen resolution – Full HD, frame rate – 60 Hz. Maximum brightness – 700 cd / sq.m., color gamut – 45% of NTSC space. The mass of the device is only 550 grams, the price is $55.
Laptops
“Lightweight 14-inch high-end business laptop.” Asus Dawn Air 2022 unveiled – 1 kg mass, Core i7-1255U and 16 hours of autonomy
Asus has unveiled a thin and light 14-inch laptop with decent battery life. The novelty is called Asus Dawn Air 2022 and is officially presented as a “lightweight 14-inch elite business laptop.”
It’s hard to say about “eliteness”, but the parameters are quite suitable for the business model, and in terms of the storage subsystem they even surpass many laptops in the class, since there are two M.2 slots for installing an SSD at once. Asus argues that the inclusion of RAID 1 will improve data safety.
The laptop received an IPS display with Full HD resolution, due to the fact that the frame is small, the screen occupies 94% of the lid area.
The body of the device is made of magnesium-aluminum alloy. Weight is 1005 grams, thickness – 14.9 mm. At the same time, in addition to two SSDs, the case contains a 66 Wh battery that provides up to 16 hours of battery life.
The hardware platform is based on the Intel Core i7-1255U processor, the amount of RAM was 16 GB, SSD – 1 TB. Asus Dawn Air 2022 received a pair of USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 interface, HDMI and USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth adapters, a waterproof backlit keyboard, a fingerprint scanner, an NFC chip and Karman Kardon speakers with support for Dolby Atmos.
Today, another official teaser dedicated to Xiaomi 13 has appeared. It shows the flat screen of the smartphone, the same flat side frame and minimal screen frame. The inscription indicates that the phone received a Samsung AMOLED screen of the latest generation E6.
Its feature (relative to the screen of the previous generation E5) is reduced power consumption with increased brightness. So, the maximum brightness on the street is 1200 cd / sq.m, and the peak reaches a value of 1900 cd / sq.m.
Recall that yesterday details about the Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro camera and the memory configuration of these models became known, and today data on the cost of these phones leaked to the Web.
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