So incoming wall of text because "rules".
2fa is a common security feature designed to offer a second layer of protection than the traditional user:pass login. Of the various 2fa methods, SMS aka a one time code sent to your mobile phone number, is one.
Due to recent undisclosed data breaches of your T-mobile PII data (this means your P.ersonal I.dentifying I.nformation) this data now exists on the dark web.
All a savvy attacker has to do is call T-Mobile and pretend to be you with this info for a quick Sim swap update to their device.
In the following mere minutes the attacker could request a 2fa SMS and intercept said SMS and entirely bypass your 2fa protections in this way.
There are numerous articles disclosing this SMS based 2fa failures pretty much from the onset of SMS 2fa.
IMHO I suggest you DYOR on SMS based 2fa, understand the risks associated, and make better informed OpSec choices.
T-mobile can't even be bothered to disclose this breach, waiting instead for it to be freely available on the dark web before even attempting to look into it. This is an egregious failure of their security for their users and I highly recommend you reconsider your choices moving forward.
This of course goes along with changing emails, passwords, and any other information that might help identify you, pass questions/answers etc.
Tl:Dr if you use sms 2fa, you might as well not these day.
I've opted in for the Android 12 Beta and received the December security patch which finally unlocked this capability. Very thankful.
TLDR: My roommate charged a $2500 MBP laptop to my credit card without my knowledge/permission. She refuses to pay me back. I filed a police report to send to my credit card company, but this puts her student visa status at risk. Am I doing the right thing?
I'm a PhD student making a meager living through research + teaching. I live in grad student housing in a 2b1b apartment. Each tenant signs a separate lease for each bedroom, but the common areas are shared. My last roommate moved out this summer. We placed an ad in our grad student forum for her replacement, which is how I ended up with my current roommate.
About 2 weeks ago, I came out of the bathroom to find my roommate in my room, on my laptop. She said that her phone was out of battery and she needed to check her email. Then, she rushed out of my room. Since she acted so suspiciously, I checked my browser history but nothing seemed awry.
A few days later, my roommate rushed into our apartment and her room holding a large Amazon package. I remembered that my Amazon account has my payment info saved, so I checked my order history. A $2500* MBP laptop was charged to my credit card without my knowledge or permission, addressed to my roommate.
*$2500 is a lot of money to me - it's more than my rent + food for a whole month.
I immediately confronted my roommate. She responded by bursting into tears - I'm still not sure if that was meant to manipulate me - and ultimately explained that she needed a new laptop for her classes+research but couldn't get her parents to transfer money to her bank account in time. She assured me that she'd pay me back in a few days.
A few days passed, and I was growing more and more nervous. Then, I saw her coming home with bags of new, expensive clothing. I took that to mean that she had the money to pay me back. At this point, my roommate started saying that she paid (past tense) me back using Venmo, and that it should show up in my account in a few hours. A few more days passed. Given her shady behavior thus far, I didn't believe that she had sent me my money at all.
At the 1 week mark, I gave her the ultimatum that if she didn't pay me back ASAP, I'd be forced to file a police report. This resulted in more tears, and my roommate locked herself in her room and refused to speak with me.
2 days later, I received an email from the Dean of Graduate Studies stating that if my roommate is charged with a felony, she might get deported because she's here on a student v
... keep reading on reddit β‘This is how I understand it? LE donβt have probable cause to access cell tower records? But was he carrying a cellphone at all?
Just got an email that starting at the turn of the new year, if you have the β¬29 unlimited subscription, you get 50GB at top speed before they throttle you. And 20GB abroad. This is opposed to the current plan or 20GB top speed and 16GB abroad. So yea, Mobile Vikings got the best plan in the game right now.
It was one of their funniest Patreon episodes ever.
His artwork isnβt exactly like that of Bob Ross, where you can paint it in 30 minutes whilst talking to a camera. And itβs not done in a private studio, on a small canvas. Theyβre usually out in public, and some of them are huge and would require ladders and other items necessary to scale buildings. It would take at the very least hours, if not a day or more, to complete some of them. Plus, weβre talking about Banksy here - his art style is quite distinctive. It could never be confused with, for example, Jonno from down the estate. It would surely be pretty hard to miss him when heβs working.
Yet whenever I hear about new ones, the reports make it sound like they just appeared as if from nowhere, and Banksy just created them and vanished like a ghost. And while thereβs tons of speculation, thereβs never been confirmation of who he actually is.
So how does he manage it? Does he choose reasonably isolated areas where thereβs little foot traffic? Does he do it in the dead of night, when people are all sleeping? Or am I falling for a PR gimmick, and his identity is actually well known and he can often be seen doing his work, but people just pretend otherwise to add to the mystique?
Just got this offer from T-Mobile and signed up. One year of Paramount+ for free. You have to provide payment method for when it renews at $4.99 a month in a year (PayPal or credit card). You can cancel anytime, including right after signing up, and the free year of access continues until the ending date.
I have to restrict data on my phone, but there will be instances where I may want to use the very tiny roaming data allotment that AT&T Passport supplies. It would seem obvious to just disable background data usage when I don't want to use it and re-enable when I do, but I am concerned about Google Play Services or other apps running in the background using data (since the allotment is only 120MB [Why bother, right? Well at least we can text]).
How can I prevent other apps from using data, when I want to use Data on a specific app. Let's say for example I just want to use a banking App.
Would AppOps Xposed provide this control to eliminate data usage on all apps and play services with the exception of a whitelist? If so, would I have to go to each and every single app except the banking app and disable data usage?
or Greenify?
