#Telco

Lowyat.NETlowyat
2025-06-24
Lowyat.NETlowyat
2025-06-23

Hotlink Travel SIM Offers Unlimited 5G Internet Across Four Countries

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🔵 ASSTEL, nuova visione per le Telco in Italia

Link al Manifesto per la Crescita Digitale dell'Italia 👉 asstel.it/manifesto/

#asstel #telco #italia

2025-06-19
I almost got scammed (and it darn made me almost defenseless because it came from a SMS by SMART's special number, y'know, the promo texts you receive from time-to-time from your telco which you can't reply to). It's a good thing I suddenly became vigilant when it tried to get my credit card number just for a delivery fee of 15 pesos (it doesn't accept GCash which is very funny in hindsight)... Now all the signs of it being a scam site ticked for me!

They're trying to pretend to be a website of SMART (the telco). The fake URL they used is "smarte.top/rewards" (you might have to spoof your browser as a mobile Firefox to get it to not return a 404), and they have a TLS cert from Google Trust Services of course...

I'd say if my browser has taken EV certs seriously I could have spotted the scam much earlier but even the real SMART website (smart.com.ph) doesn't have EV. Just plain DV (but it's from GlobalSign which means they have paid for it...). I bet the anti-EV crusade by Mozilla and Google just made them not choose getting an EV cert (though I don't get why they'd not go just full gratis and get a cert from LE instead of GlobalSign...)

If governments just required any website handling e-commerce (like if they have to process credit cards for example) to get an EV cert (otherwise they get blocked in the country), pressured the browsers to make EV certs easily noticeable in the UI (especially in mobile!) or else also get blocked in the country, and ran public awareness campaigns on how to easily spot a genuine website now that EV certs are easily noticed, these scam sites would quickly become a thing of the past, ISTG!

#Philippines #SMART #telco #TLS #security #cybersecurity #cyberscam #scam

@SecureOwl My #telco won't do this again, my account details with them have a warning label: "Customer uses technical terms!" This usually make me being forwarded to some real tech ppl rather quickly 😁

Maybe you should use more technical terms, just make them up as you go, they won't notice anyway.

#ikidyounot

Lowyat.NETlowyat
2025-06-09
2025-06-09

The latest #scam by #Celcom #Digi

If you block their incessant spam messages, you will be locked out of your user account.

#telco #malaysia #nationofcriminals

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