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  2. iPhone and Android users told to stop sending texts after ...

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    US officials have warned people to not send text messages amid a massive and ongoing cyber attack against telecom companies.. Smartphone users are instead urged to use encrypted messaging apps ...

  3. How to make sure texts and calls are encrypted after the FBI ...

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    The U.S. believes Chinese intelligence hacked into AT&T, Verizon and Lumen Technologies and gained significant access, including records of phone calls and text messages for many people ...

  4. FBI warns users to encrypt text messages for cybersecurity ...

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    The FBI is warning phone users to encrypt their text messages, especially if you send messages between Apple and Android users. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ...

  5. 2024 United States telecommunications hack - Wikipedia

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    On August 27, 2024, The Washington Post reported that at least 2 major internet service providers in the United States had been compromised by Chinese hackers. [1] It was later reported that the hackers affected at least nine telecommunications firms in the U.S., including AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, and T-Mobile, and had also affected dozens of other countries.

  6. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - Wikipedia

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    That is the parties to the call, the time of the call and for cell phones, the cell tower being used by the target phone. For text message, the same information is sent but the content is not sent. This level is called "Trap and Trace". The second level of CALEA wiretap, when permitted, actually sends the voice and content of text messages.

  7. Network Investigative Technique - Wikipedia

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    The "activating" computer's Host Name. A Host Name is a name that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication, such as communications over the Internet; The "activating" computer's Media Access Control ("MAC") address.

  8. Apple, Android users on notice from FBI, CISA about texts ...

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    Hackers could be after your text messages. Especially vulnerable: texts between Android and Apple devices. Three weeks ago the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA ...

  9. Digital Collection System Network - Wikipedia

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    The Digital Collection System Network (DCSNet) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s point-and-click surveillance system that can perform instant wiretaps on almost any telecommunications device in the United States. [1] It allows access to cellphone, landline, SMS communications anywhere in the US from a point-and-click interface.