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Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon

Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers. The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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In May we moved our account API onto a service mesh, and overnight its request rate fell by forty one percent. The traffic drop alert fired at two in the morning. Users were fine.

  • Four out of ten requests were non-user traffic
  • Health checks bypassed metrics middleware
  • Error budget exceeded by 100%

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