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Ransomware in Schools: White House Wants Action NOW

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Don’t make me tap the sign: Biden administration hosts summit; bangs heads together from government, school districts and industry ...
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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

| | A Little Sunshine, ATT, CCPA, CPNI, Custom Experience Plus, customer proprietary network information, Data breaches, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Enhanced Relevant Advertising Program, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Gavin Wright, MAIDs, Mashable, mobile advertising IDs, T-Mobile, TechTarget, verizon, Verizon Custom Experience Plus, Verizon Selects, Verizon Wireless
A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and ...
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FINALLY! FCC Acts on SMS Scam-Spam — But Will It Work?

FINALLY! FCC Acts on SMS Scam-Spam — But Will It Work?

| | Caller ID Spoofing, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, SB Blogwatch, scam, SMS, SMS fraud, SMS messages, SMS phishing, sms scam, SMS scams, SMS Spam, smshing, Spam, STIR/SHAKEN, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission rules to block illegal text messages. What took you so long? ...
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Kaspersky Banned by FCC: ‘Threat to National Security’

Kaspersky Banned by FCC: ‘Threat to National Security’

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The FCC added Kaspersky Lab to a list of banned companies. The commission alleges the firm is a threat to U.S. national security ...
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Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

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Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related ...
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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers' location information without taking adequate ...
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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

| | A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, Andy Greenberg, ATT, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, Google Voice, Nicholas Truglia, Robocalls, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm, wired
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 ...
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Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

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The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account ...
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FCC Small Biz Cyber Planner

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Image via Wikipedia The FCC has launched a Small Biz Cyber Planner, an online resource to help small businesses create customized cybersecurity plans in conjunction with DHS, NCSA, NIST, The U.S. Chamber ...
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