Verizon to Pay Largest Ever Consumer Privacy Settlement

Verizon will pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.4 million as part of a settlement over the company’s failure to adequately inform and obtain consent from customers before using their personal information to develop thousands of tailored marketing campaigns. Officials say this fine...

Verizon to Bolster Authentication with QR Codes

If you want to know what the future holds for authentication on the web, it all depends whom you ask. Some say it’ll come in the form of biometrics – iris and fingerprint scans, etc. Others say the answer lies in a tangle of constantly changing two-factor verification codes users need to punch in...

Secret Service Backoff point of sale malware advisory

Point-of-sale malware is a problem that apparently isn’t going away any time soon. No doubt spurred on by the massive data loss absorbed in the Target data breach and most recently Supervalu grocery chains, and UPS, which disclosed last week that 51 of its stores were victimized by credit card...

New Verizon Transparency Report Shows Large Government Appetite for Location, Content Data

Verizon said in a new transparency report that though the number of some kinds of orders dropped–including wiretap orders and warrants–others rose, including general orders and pen register and trap and trace orders, and the company received nearly 150,000 total orders in the first half of 2014...

Verizon Fios Router MI424WR-GEN3I - CSRF Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: Verizon Fios Router CSRF Admin Shell Date: Discovered and reported January 2013 Author: Jacob Holcomb/Gimppy - Security Analyst @ Independent Security Evaluators Software: Verizon FIOS Router - Firmware 40.19.36 http://verizon.com CVE: CVE-2013-01...

Towelroot : One-Click Android Rooting Tool Released By Geohot

Waiting for the root access for your AT&T or Verizon Android phone? Then there is really a Great News for you! Geohot aka George Hotz - a famed cracker who was responsible for hacking the PlayStation 3 and subsequently being sued by Sony - has built and released a root tool called Towelroot on...

Developers Raise Bounty of $17,600 for First to Root Samsung Galaxy S5

It has been months ago since the release of Samsung’s latest Smartphone, Galaxy S5 and we have seen a portion of International units receive root, but a couple of the carrier variants including the developer edition of Samsung Galaxy S5 for Verizon and At&T hasn’t been in the list, sadly. The...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Heartbleed, Apple's Patches and the DBIR Report

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the Apple OSX and iOS patches, the continuing OpenSSL Heartbleed soap opera and the Verizon DBIR report. Download: digitalunderground152.mp3...

2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

Most of us—hopefully—awaken every day, shower and brush our teeth. If you own a home, you patch a leaky roof and paint the shutters so they don’t rot. You own a vehicle, you change the oil when you’re supposed to and make sure the brakes work the way they’re supposed to. It’s simple hygiene. Yet ...

2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

The attention given to the Target data breach elevated concerns about point-of-sale hacks and got us reacquainted with RAM scrapers and other threats to retailers big and small. And while it’s been a noteworthy highlight to the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for the past few...

WeakSauce

WeakSauce is an exploit for some HTC devices. It was compatible with the HTC One m7 & m7 on Verizon...

Verizon Updates 2013 Transparency Report With FISA Data

Verizon updated its transparency report yesterday, breaking down National Security Letter and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA orders for the first and second halves of 2013. The telecommunications giant released its first transparency report in late January, responding to pressure from...

Verizon Releases First Transparency Report, Says Government Requests INcreasing

After months of public calls from privacy advocates and security experts, Verizon on Wednesday released its first transparency report, revealing that it received more than 164,000 subpoenas and between 1,000 and 2,000 National Security Letters in 2013. The report, which covers Verizon’s landline,...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Likely Violates Fourth Amendment

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that...

ESA-2013-078: EMC Document Sciences xPression Multiple Vulnerabilities

ESA-2013-078.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2013-078: EMC Document Sciences xPression Multiple Vulnerabilities EMC Identifier: ESA-2013-078 CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-6173, CVE-2013-6174, CVE-2013-6175, CVE-2013-6176, CVE-2013-6177 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: See bel...

Simple, but Critical vulnerability in Verizon Portal revealed users' SMS History

A Security researcher discovered a critical privacy vulnerability on Verizon Wireless's Web-based customer portal that allows anyone to download user's SMS History and Numbers of other users he communicated with. Back in August, researcher 'Cody Collier' found that a simple URL exploit could allo...

Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Wireless Users' SMS History

A security researcher discovered a simple vulnerability in Verizon Wireless’s Web-based customer portal that enabled anyone who knows a subscriber’s phone number to download that user’s SMS message history, including the numbers of the people he communicated with. The vulnerability, which has bee...

Simple, but Critical vulnerability in Verizon Portal revealed users' SMS History

A Security researcher discovered a critical privacy vulnerability on Verizon Wireless’s Web-based customer portal that allows anyone to download user’s SMS History and Numbers of other users he communicated with. Back in August, researcher 'Cody Collier' found that a simple URL exploit could allo...

FISC Court renews the Permission to collect Telephony Metadata again

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has once again has renewed the permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect the telephony metadata from American phone companies. The News that the NSA collects bulk phone call metadata including phone numbers, call times and...

FISC Court renews the Permission to collect Telephony Metadata again

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has once again has renewed the permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect the telephony metadata from American phone companies. The News that the NSA collects bulk phone call metadata including phone numbers, call times and...