Collaborate Disseminate
According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls. Continue reading Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day
Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptick in SIM-swapping attacks that lead to multi-million dollar cyberheists.
If you are somehow under the impression that you — the customer — are in control over the security, privacy and integrity of your mobile phone service, think again. And you’d be forgiven if you assumed the major wireless carriers or federal regulators had their hands firmly on the wheel. Continue reading Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.
The FCC in June called for carriers to provide free, default robocall blocking services. One month later, plans are “far from clear.” Continue reading FCC underwhelmed by carriers’ sluggish robocall efforts
It’s a drop in the “4.7 billion robocalls placed per month” bucket, but hey, it’s better than nothing! Continue reading FTC crackdown targets operators behind 1 billion robocalls
Some pretend to be hospitals to get patients’ payment data. Others pose as the goverment and try to get confidential data from hospitals. Continue reading Hospitals are being suffocated by robocalls
The TRACED Act was a slam dunk in the Senate, where it passed with an overwhelming 97-1 vote. Continue reading US Senate passes anti-robocalling bill
It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire’s daughter. Continue reading Bots rigged Russian finale of ‘The Voice Kids’ talent show
The Federal Trade Commission announced settlements this week that could result in many fewer of those annoying Robocalls we’ve all been receiving. Who did they sanction and what were those companies doing?
NetDotSolutions (James Christiano)
Ja… Continue reading FTC shutters four Robocalling services that made billions of calls in 2018
The Last Week Tonight host launched an anti-robocalling robocalling campaign to force the FCC to put a stop to the pervasive, irritating calls. Continue reading John Oliver bombards the FCC with anti-robocall robocall campaign
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for February 18th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Preventing illegal robocalls, should you be scared of your laptop’s webcam, and recent hacks of popular dating apps. Silent … Continue reading Preventing Illegal Robocalls, Webcam Spying, Dating App Account Hacking – WB56