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Go Unlimited with AT&T’s 5G Deals – Phandroid

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The continued proliferation and adoption of 5G hardware by enterprises and consumers alike has certainly led to a rapid rise in its availability in recent times. Carriers and telecom brands have essentially lowered the barrier of entry for consumers looking for better data connectivity speeds, and as a result users now have better access to 5G data services.

With that said, today we’re taking a look at what AT&T has to offer with their unlimited data plans. One of the biggest network and service providers in the US, the company offers a range of different unlimited 5G plans for customers, each with a varying set of service features. Let’s check them out!

AT&T’s Unlimited Plans

Right off the bat, there are three different tiers available for AT&T users. The Unlimited Premium Plan with four service lines will cost you $50 per line, and comes with perks including unlimited phone calls and texting, high-speed data, 50GB hotspot data, and even 4K UHD streaming. Additionally, you get unlimited texts, calls and data in-between Mexico and Canada, unlimited SMS from the US to more than 200 countries, and no speed caps on data speeds.

There’s also an Unlimited Extra Plan, which goes for a slightly lower $40 price per line (with four service lines as well), and while it likewise comes with unlimited SMS, calls, and data, 5G speeds might be slower once you hit 50GB of usage, with video streaming reduced to SD quality. Hotspot data is also reduced to 15GB per month, which is considerably smaller.

If you’re after something even more affordable, then the AT&T Unlimited Starter Plan comes in priced at around $35 per line for four lines. With this one, you do get similar features as the Extra Plan, although hotspot data is reduced to 3GB, much smaller than the Extra Plan. With that said, all plans get you Active Armor Advanced security, with the exception of the Starter Plan which comes with more basic security.

By comparison, Verizon’s base-tier $35 5G plan only gets you 15GB of data, while their top-tier plan goes for $60, making it slightly more expensive than AT&T’s Unlimited Premium Plan. On the other hand, T-Mobile’s base Essential plan rounds out to around $30, although you only…

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Password manager LastPass confirms security breach – Phandroid

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One of the benefits of a password manager is that it can help you create strong passwords and store them so you don’t have to bother to memorize them. The downside to this is that you’re entrusting all your passwords to a single entity, and one data breach could result in all your passwords being stolen.

This is kind of a nightmare scenario for anyone using password managers, and unfortunately it looks like something similar has happened to LastPass, one of the more popular password managers available today.

In a blog post by the company’s CEO Karim Toubba, the company has confirmed that they have suffered a security breach a couple of weeks ago. According to Toubba, LastPass confirmed that an unauthorized party managed to gain access to portions of the platform’s development environment via a compromised developer account and managed to steal bits of source code and proprietary technical information.

Toubba does reassure users that while a security breach happened, no customer data or encrypted passwords were stolen, meaning that as far as users are concerned, their passwords are still safe. Toubba adds:

“In response to the incident, we have deployed containment and mitigation measures, and engaged a leading cybersecurity and forensics firm. While our investigation is ongoing, we have achieved a state of containment, implemented additional enhanced security measures, and see no further evidence of unauthorized activity.”

At this point in time, users won’t have to do anything on their end since none of their passwords were compromised, but perhaps as a precaution, you should consider setting up two-factor authentication for your LastPass account if you haven’t done so already.

Source: LastPass

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OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro updated with December security patch and bug fixes – Phandroid

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While many Pixel 6 and 6 Pro owners continue to await the arrival of the December Android security patch, another non-Pixel phone is being updated with it. This time, OnePlus has started rolling out the patch to owners of the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro.

In the update, which carries a version number of 11.0.10.10, doesn’t have much else to offer other than the security patch. However, there are a few other bug fixes that OnePlus has implemented in the update. Here’s the full changelog as published on the OnePlus Forums post:

Changelog

  • System
    • Optimized the UI display of Settings interface
    • Fixed the issue that Google Assistant and Gpay doesn’t display as expected in the Setup Wizard
    • Fixed the low probability issue of WhatsApp crash
    • Updated Android security patch to 2021.12

It seems that some OnePlus 8 owners have been unable to reliably use WhatsApp, but it’s because of the previous OxygenOS release, and not the app itself. OnePlus is also providing a fix related to how Google Pay and Google Assistant appear when going through the setup process.

As expected, OnePlus is rolling out this latest update incrementally, meaning that it’s arriving for a small subset of users before being made available for everyone. OnePlus is expected to have this update arrive on all phones within the next few weeks, provided that no other bugs appear to pause the rollout. If you haven’t received the update yet, you can manually check to see if it’s available by heading into the Settings app, going into System, and checking the System Updates section.

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Surprise! Galaxy S8 gets updated with November Security Patch – Phandroid

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It should come as no surprise, but Samsung officially stopped supporting the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus earlier this year. This means there will be no more major Android releases, and we expected there to be no more security patches. But according to SamMobile, that’s not the case.

A surprise update is rolling out to owners of the best phone from five years ago. The update carries a version number of G95xFXXUCDUK1 and seems to be rolling out to devices in France first before arriving in other regions.

The update doesn’t add any new features, and you definitely won’t find your old phone sporting One UI 4. Instead, this update includes the November security patch, along with patching various privacy vulnerabilities.

While we haven’t seen the update arrive in other regions just yet, you can manually check for an update by heading into the Settings app and tapping Software Update. If the update is available, you’ll be prompted to download and install it.

Unless Samsung surprises us with another security patch for December, this is likely the final update we’ll see some to the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. Let us know if you’ve received the update and if there are any changes that were not initially revealed.

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