FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers -- including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon -- for illegally sharing access to customers location information without consent. The fines mark the culmination of a mor...

High-Severity Cisco Flaw Found in CMX Software For Retailers

A high-severity flaw in Cisco’s smart Wi-Fi solution for retailers could allow a remote attacker to alter the password of any account user on affected systems. The vulnerability is part of a number of patches issued by Cisco addressing 67 high-severity CVEs on Wednesday. This included flaws found...

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

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 uptic...

American telecommunications giant Verizon aeration have significant security vulnerabilities, leakage of customer information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The United States largest wireless communications provider Verizon to 4 4 billion USD acquisition of Aol AOL message Board this week to foreign media news headlines. However, BuzzFeed's latest report shows that Verizon in the design of a major security vulnerability could allow the...