Customers of Telco Companies Face Privacy Breach
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A security advisory posted on Bugtraq demonstrates how hackers can compromise customers of T-mobile wireless and Verizon (landline) voicemail boxes. The advisory talks about the use of Caller-ID spoofing the customers number, allowing a bypass of the PIN code since the voicemail thinks that the customer is calling to check their own voicemail. According to Secure Science Corporation, there has been no response from the vendors. Comments have been posted that T-Mobile has optional PIN code protection off by default. Better turn it on.
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Not keeping customer information secure Mobile operator Orange has breached the Data Protection Act's security requirements and home shopping giant Littlewoods has breached the Act's marketing rules, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ruled.â¦
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A Congressional inquiry into online data brokers has raised concerns that federal and local law enforcement may be skirting privacy laws to obtain calling records
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Company that used pretexting to obtain and sell phone records and credit card information gives up ill-gotten gains.
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New online services could make you an even more inviting target for privacy attacks. Here's how.
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(InfoWorld) - I search, therefore I am. That was the rude lesson AOL subscribers learned last month when the Internet giant thoughtlessly released reams of data on searches that its users conducted. Sure, the usersâ identities were removed, but as people quickly figured out, you can tell a lot about who somebody is by looking at what theyâre looking for. Now it turns out that those Blackberries and smart phones we drag around with us are talking, too. Mobile device security company Trust Digital reported last month that used smartphones and PDAs for sale on eBay can reveal reams of information â 27,000 pages, to be exact â about their former owners. The company purchased 10 mobile devices from eBay and salvaged data, including personal banking and tax information, corporate client records, product road maps, computer passwords, and contact address books, the company said in a statement. Most of the data was in the flash memory of the devices because the previous owners didnât properly cleanse the equipment using a âhard resetâ that would have erased the data. With the use of multifunction mobile devices growing rapidly within corporations, mobile data leaks are already a big problem, and enterprises should be investigating software to secure data on mobile devices, Trust Digital said. Luckily, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is on the job. At this monthâs CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show, the group plans to announce new, open specifications to embed trust into mobile devices that will give added protection against data loss, as well as malicious code and spam, according to Mark Redman, principal engineer at Freescale Semiconductor and a member of TCGâs Mobile Phone Working Group, which is developing the new specification. The specifications will cover areas such as user data protection and privacy, allowing users to protect personally identifiable information, address books, and other credentials from being accessed. TCG isnât saying when mobile devices will be made available with security based on the new specifications, but a six- to 18-month gap isnât uncommon, said a TCG spokeswoman.
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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Company is latest phone giant to file suit to stop data brokers from fraudulently obtaining customer information.
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(InfoWorld) - AT&T confirmed Tuesday that its online store had been hacked and the credit card information and personal data of up to 19,000 customers possibly compromised. The hacking occurred during the weekend, although AT&T did not say when, resulting in the temporary closure of its online store. The company said it was notifying "fewer than 19,000 customers" about the intrusion, and that it would pay for credit monitoring services to protect both the affected users and further its investigation of the incident. AT&T is still reeling from the investigation of a different kind of privacy infringement -- that of its involvement in assisting the U.S. National Security Agency toÂ monitor the communications of American citizensÂ without a warrant.
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TORONTO (CP) - Scrambling to deal with a potentially serious breach of client privacy, CIBC said late Friday it is ordering all employees to stop using the bank&#39;s internal fax system to send customer information between branches or offices.
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Many 'contactless' credit cards can leak their owner's name and card number for reading at a distance.
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Part deux An online choccy emporium has defended its response to a privacy glitch that left customer details unwrapped and exposed to the world.â¦
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Several incidents highlight the dangers life online presents to preserving your privacy.
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Privacy advocates slammed AT&amp;T Inc.   on Thursday for declaring that it owned its Internet and  video customers&#039; account information and could hand the data  over to law enforcement if needed.
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Companies brace for privacy debate as potentially intrusive applications arrive faster than expected.
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Hospitals across the country grapple with infringement of patients' privacy caused by employees using camera phones.
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A new computerized service enables customers to create phony outbound phone numbers in order to mask their telephone identities.