Appeals Court Rules NSA Metadata Collection Not Authorized by Section 215

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Patriot Act does not authorize the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA. The ruling undermines the key foundation upon which the federal government’s phone metadata surveillance program is built, Section 215 ...

2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR did some mythbusting on two fronts: the estimated cost per record lost in a breach is much lower than reported elsewhere; and mobile malware is a no-go. The DBIR is Verizon’s annual data dump collected from breaches it has investigated, alon...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the CNNIC Issue, Malvertising and Verizon's Supercookie News

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about Google’s decision to drop Chinese CA CNNIC from Chrome’s trust store, the scope of the malvertising threat and Verizon’s super cookie use. Download: digitalunderground193.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Verizon Allows Opt Out of UIDH Mobile Supercookie

Verizon Wireless has made a change that now allows customers to opt out of the ad-targeting program that relies on the so-called supercookie identifier that was inserted into Web requests users send. The use of the identifier, known as a UIDH, drew the ire of privacy advocates and users when it w...

Lower mistakes: the U.S. telecommunications Verizon（Verizon）APP vulnerability exists, can be read-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Verizon（Verizon is the largest US telecommunications companies. Recently, security researchers at Verizon（Verizon its FiOS mobile APP on found a high-risk vulnerability that can allow an attacker access to millions of Verizon user's email account. Vulnerability details FiOS mobile APP on this...

Patched API Flaw Allowed Anyone Access to Verizon Email

Verizon last week rushed out a patch for an API used by its My FiOS mobile application after a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability to the telecommunications giant that allowed any user access to any Verizon email account. The report was submitted last Wednesday and within 48 hours,...

Verizon FiOS app vulnerability Exposes 5 MILLION Customers' Email Addresses

A critical vulnerability discovered in Verizon's FiOS mobile application allowed an attacker to access the email account of any Verizon customer with relative ease, leaving almost five million user accounts of Verizon's FiOS application at risk. The FiOS API flaw was discovered by XDA senior...

Government Demands for Verizon Customer Data Drop

The number of subpoenas, total orders and warrants that the United States government delivered to Verizon all dropped in the second half of 2014, according to the company’s latest transparency report. The giant telecom provider released data on Thursday that showed a decrease in subpoenas of abou...

Payment Cards Exposed in Possible Chik-fil-A Data Breach

It’s been the year of the data breach, so it only makes sense that reports alleging a data breach at the popular fast food chain, Chik-fil-A, would emerge in the final days of 2014. Late yesterday security journalist Brian Krebs reported that an anonymous source at an unnamed financial institutio...

AT&T Drops Controversial Tracking Header

When information came out earlier this month that some mobile carriers were injecting unique identifying “supercookies” into their users’ Web traffic, privacy groups and users were angered. The practice, used by Verizon and AT&T, enables advertisers to track users’ behavior and assemble informati...

EFF Calls Out ISPs Modifying STARTTLS Encryption Commands

As Net Neutrality debates swirl, privacy advocates at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and VPN provider Golden Frog have gone public with a Federal Communications Commission filing that got more attention for accusations that Verizon FIOS customers were having their Netflix streaming service...

Verizon Wireless Injects Identifiers to Track Mobile Customers’ Online Activities

The Nation's largest telecom operator 'Verizon Wireless' is tracking its customers' mobile internet traffic by adding a token to Web requests traveling over its network, in order to facilitate targeted advertising even if a user has opted out of their Customer Proprietary Network Information CPNI...

CVE-2014-5754

The Verizon Instant Refills 24/7 aka com.wVerizonInstantRefill247 application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5755

The verizon aka com.wverizonwirelessbill application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Verizon Instant Refills 24/7 aka com.wVerizonInstantRefill247 application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Information disclosure

The verizon aka com.wverizonwirelessbill application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5754

The Verizon Instant Refills 24/7 aka com.wVerizonInstantRefill247 application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5754

CVE-2014-5754 concerns the Verizon Instant Refills 24/7 Android app (version 0.1) not verifying X.509 certificates from SSL servers, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof servers and access sensitive data via a crafted certificate. The connected NVD/NVD-derived records confirm the same desc...

CVE-2014-5755

The verizon aka com.wverizonwirelessbill application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-5755

The CVE-2014-5755 entry applies to the Verizon (com.wverizonwirelessbill) Android app version 0.1, where SSL/TLS connections do not verify X.509 certificates. Root cause: missing validation of server certificates, enabling man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and access sensitive informat...