Carrier Coding Incompetence: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

via Zack Whittaker, writing at TechCrunch, regales us with the news of yet-more evidence of a nearly complete lack of competency when writing communications code relevant to both 4G and 5G information security. The moral of the story: Do not believe what the carriers say (when pontificating) about ‘How Important Our Customers’ Information Security Is‘ or another crowd-pleaser ‘We Take Our Customer’s Security Very Seriously‘… Just Astonishing. H/T

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Infosecurity.US authored by Marc Handelman. Read the original post at: https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2019/2/25/coding-incompetence-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving