US Phone Spying: Integrity Does Not Switch On and Off
If the US expects to take the moral high ground on matters of telecoms security, then it would help if they had a leader with some integrity.
Telco Staff Targeted by New Custom Spear Voice Phishing Attacks
Criminals phone staff as they work at home, then tell them to log on to phishing websites that look like corporate portals.
Telco That Unlawfully Billed AT&T Ordered to Repay $1mn
AT&T first withheld payment from LEC-MI in 2013, but mediation dragged on as they argued about LEC-MI’s liability for its agents.
AT&T Bills Customers after Their Home Is Burned Down
Perhaps the US telco was unaware of which lines were disconnected by devastating wildfires in California, but did they have to be so unresponsive to the justified complaints of these customers?
Hackers Fool Telco Staff into Installing Remote Desktop Software, Claims Magazine
Persuading the unwary to allow remote access to their computers is an old trick, but it supposedly is used to execute SIM swaps.
US Telcos Vulnerable to Prepaid SIM Swaps, Say Researchers
Princeton academics tested how little information was needed to persuade five US mobile telcos to execute a SIM swap.
First STIR/SHAKEN Verified Call across Three Telcos
T-Mobile US, Comcast and Inteliquent say they have achieved a global first by using a digital signature to validate the origin of a call routed across three networks.
AT&T to Pay $60mn Compensation for Throttling Customers on ‘Unlimited’ Mobile Data Plans
Data speeds were turned down for 3.5mn customers whose usage exceeded a threshold that was not advertised.
Living the Stream: The Mal-Content
There will be intense competition between a rising number of video streaming services.
SIM Swappers Tweet from Twitter CEO’s Account
The hackers known as ChucklingSquad have repeated their SIM swapping tricks with Jack Dorsey, founder and CEO of Twitter, becoming their latest victim.