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Cellphone provider warns that it’s increasingly being asked to provide huge and broad data dumps – such as records of every phone that passed by a given tower
Continue reading Verizon: US government requests for phone records on the up
Verizon Wireless will start throttling video streams to resolutions as low as 480p on smartphones this week. Most data plans will get 720p video on smartphones, but customers won’t have any option to completely un-throttle video. From a report: 1080p w… Continue reading Verizon To Start Throttling All Smartphone Videos To 480p or 720p
The new “Verizon Up” rewards program released this week by Big Red awards users a credit for every $300 they spend on their Verizon bill that can be redeemed toward various rewards. The only catch is that Verizon requires you to enroll in Verizon Selec… Continue reading Verizon’s New Rewards Program Lets It Track Your Browsing History
By Ben Rafferty, Global Solutions Director This month, Verizon revealed that as many as 14 million records of customers who called the company’s customer service department had been compromised in one of the biggest data security incidents of 2017 (thus far). Each record contained hundreds of fields of sensitive personal information, including customers’ names, home […]
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Trump’s FCC chief Ajit Pai was in the hot seat Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Continue reading Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump’s FCC for ‘Anti-Consumer’ Agenda
Maybe some of you missed this amid all the breach news recently (I know I did), but Trump International Hotels Management LLC last week announced its third credit-card data breach in the past two years. I thought it might be useful to see these events plotted on a timeline, because it suggests that virtually anyone who used a credit card at a Trump property in the past two years likely has had their card data stolen and put on sale in the cybercrime underground as a result. Continue reading Trump Hotels Hit By 3rd Card Breach in 2 Years
Massive database leaks were once again among the week’s top trending cybercrime targets, including incidents involving U.S. Verizon customers, France’s Orange S.A, and India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm. The Verizon leak was caused by a third-party engineer at NICE Systems and affected as many as 14 million U.S. customers. The engineer appears to have created a… Read More
Continue reading Weekly Cyber Risk Roundup: Big Telecom Leaks and AlphaBay Goes Offline
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Verizon breach, the Oracle session hijacking attack, a Telegram-based hacking tool, and a free EternalBlue scanner. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, July 14, 2017
An analysis of Amazon Web Services storage containers reveals troubling trend of misconfigured S3 buckets that leak data. Continue reading Experts Warn Too Often AWS S3 Buckets Are Misconfigured, Leak Data
The personal information of as many as 14 million US Verizon customers was left exposed online, claims a cybersecurity firm. According to reports, the data was found on an unprotected Amazon S3 storage server controlled by an employee of Israel-based technology company NICE Systems. The third-party vendor appeared to have created the data repository to […]… Read More
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