 T-Mobile USA announced a security breach late last night. The company says its cyber-security team discovered and shut down unauthorized access to its customers' data on Monday, August 20. The telco says an attacker was exfiltrating personal data such as customer names, billing ZIP codes, phone numbers, email addresses, account numbers, and account types (prepaid or postpaid). T-Mobile said the hacker (or hackers) did not gain access to passwords, social security numbers, or any financial information. Impacted customers will receive an SMS, letter in the mail, or a phone call to notify them. The US telco says it informed law enforcement authorities about the breach. A T-Mobile spokesperson told Motherboard that less than 3% of its customer base was affected. T-Mobile reported 75.62 million customers at the end of Q2 2018. That would put the breach at around 3.9 million customers, still, a considerable number. As some T-Mobile users have pointed out, even if the hackers did not get their hands on any financial data or passwords, the breach makes it easier for the attacker to port (SIM swap) numbers. More details posted on OUR FORUM.  According to the latest reports from AdDuplex, Microsoft’s latest entrant to the Surface family, the Surface Go now holds a market share of 1.24% of among the Surface devices. Microsoft which launched the Surface Go device on August 2nd in the US market enters the list of Surface devices and is now placed between the Surface Laptop and Surface Studio. Surface Pro 4 still remains the most popular Surface device beating other two Surface Pro models. The Surface Pro 4 currently holds a market share of around 33% with Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro at 18% and 17% respectively. Microsoft launched the Surface Go keeping in mind the education sector with the device featuring a 10″ display and offering 7th Generation Intel Pentium Gold Processor 4415Y with 4 GB and 8 GB RAM options. The Surface Go has been termed as the most affordable device among the Surface family with the device priced at $399. The device comes with Windows 10 in S Mode pre-installed and you can get a full Windows 10 experience when upgraded from S Mode. AdDuplex has also shared some new data about the Windows popularity for the month of August 2018. The current data shows the percentage of devices running the Windows 10 April Update. Graphics and more is posted on OUR FORUM.  While Microsoft has moved to Edge for Windows 10 on the desktop, Internet Explorer still remains available as an option. Unlike three years ago when we first wrote this article on how to find and run Internet Explorer, Microsoft has since developed Edge much further, Users can now expect a plethora of features built around reading, inking and similar. Edge is also easier on the eyes, comes with a beautiful built-in dark mode and fluent design, and can support progressive web apps. In short, Edge is for the modern computer user. Still, if you do want to run Internet Explorer for reasons like legacy app support or just familiarity, you can find it by searching with Cortana, or in the Start Menu where it’s buried. Now, Internet Explorer isn’t for everyone. It’s actually for almost no-one right now. Microsoft leaves it enabled for users who want to run legacy web apps that will (for some reason) only run in Internet Explorer. If you don’t particularly care like 99% of people, there’s a quick way to disable Internet Explorer so it’s completely out of the way. Internet Explorer is an aging browser that tends to be riddled with security vulnerabilities, whose had its time in the spotlight and now more and more people are using alternative web browsers and realize they want to completely remove the older less reliable Internet Explorer, now is their chance to do just that. Visit OUR FORUM for further details. |
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