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Verizon is refusing to waive or reduce $880 of charges accidentally ran up from someone who borrowed a mobile hotspot from a small library. “The library has an ‘unlimited’ data plan for the hotspots, but Verizon says it has to pay the $880 to cover les… Continue reading Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB of Roaming Data
Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources, has raised $200 million in new financing from SoftBank Group and its affiliates. It’s a sign of the belief that SoftBank has in the technology, since the Japanese investment firm is basically doubling […] Continue reading Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform
hackingbear writes: Huawei has told Verizon that the U.S. carrier should pay licensing fees for more than 230 of the Chinese telecoms equipment maker’s patents and in aggregate is seeking more than $1 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Wed… Continue reading Huawei Asks Verizon To Pay Over $1 Billion For Over 230 Patents
The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) has finally arrived. I haven’t been this excited about 2019 since New Years Eve! In this blog, I will parse some of the more interesting conclusions from this year’s DBIR and talk about how thi… Continue reading Verizon’s 2019 DBIR Documents over 2,000 Breaches
A month ago, Verizon’s 5G coverage in Chicago was exceedingly difficult to find and the speeds were only noticeably faster than LTE. Now, Chris Welch from The Verge says the company “has ramped things up.” While coverage “remains extremely limited” and… Continue reading Verizon’s 5G Network Is Now Hitting Gigabit Download Speeds
From a creepy Airbnb incident to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, Threatpost editors break down the top privacy and security stories for the week ended May 10. Continue reading News Wrap: Facebook Regulation, Verizon DBIR, Hidden Airbnb Cameras
C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks, alerts the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. Senior executives are 12x more likely to be the target of… Continue reading C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches
The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was released today, and I was lucky enough to be handed a hot off the press physical copy while at the Global Cyber Alliance Cyber Trends 2019 event at Mansion House, London. For me, the DBIR p… Continue reading 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) Key Takeaways
Cloud misconfigurations, business email compromise (BEC) and intellectual property theft are all up in the Verizon DBIR 2019 from last year. Continue reading Verizon Data Breach Report: Espionage, C-Suite and Cloud Attacks on the Rise
Every year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report comes out, and there’s a mad scramble to inspect and interpret the data. The report is data-rich, as always, and already contains a bunch of analysis, so there are really only a few option… Continue reading Highlights from the Verizon DBIR 2019