When a Stranger Calls, Beware of The Pretext
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You get a phone call from someone who says they're taking a survey for a reputable sounding research firm. They ask you a few questions that seem relatively harmless -- what's private anymore, anyway, right? -- such as the name of your phone company or investment firm or even the name of your pet.
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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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Here's how nontechnical users can secure their own instant-messaging conversations such that an attacker is unable to listen in (be it the government or a nosy neighbor).
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Beware the Babbio The executives willing to testify about their roles in the HP spy scandal have claimed a blissful ignorance around the legal ins and outs of obtaining phone records. Their defense has hinged on the idea that they were assured by hired investigators that any phone snooping was legal and that they did not become really concerned about how phone records were obtained until learning of the euphemism "pretexting." Even after learning about pretexting, it took executives weeks to comprehend in full the fraud behind the practice.â¦
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For months, Shira Barlow's cell phone was flooded with wrong-number calls and text messages, mostly between 2 and 4 a.m. on weekends. Told they had reached a college student, callers refused to believe it.
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Are there ever âshorter than expectedâ hold times on phone help lines? and other perplexing questions.
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I&#146;m on teleconferences several times a day. They&#146;re either great, or a mess. Some people don&#146;t know how to start one; other times there&#146;s no one in charge of moving the call forward or there&#146;s no agenda. Sometimes you don&#146;t know who is on the call. Save yourselves!
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Are there ever âshorter than expectedâ hold times on phone help lines and other perplexing questions.
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Why my cellphone keeps calling people on its own and my microwave oven is in revolt.
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It's a moment that many of us have experienced: The cellphone, deep in your pocket or stuffed in an out-of-reach briefcase, starts to ring as you're driving down the road. It could just be a friend, calling to gossip. Or it might be someone at the office, warning you that the meeting you're headed...
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The next time a weary corporate  traveler gets a "Sorry, wrong number!" call at his hotel in the  middle of the night, he might think back to how much -- or  whether -- he tipped the bellman.
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Scammers are using fake electronic greetings to lure recipients to malicious sites.
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A start-up began offering a technology Wednesday that can spoof a caller ID number, potentially opening the door to telemarketing calls that seem to be coming from a relative or a different company.
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New technology can trick US caller-ID services into displaying someone else&#39;s name and telephone number, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
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Researcher finds two flaws that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private data or render a phone unusable.
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GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could use VoIP to trick people into revealing personal data.
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About a hundred times a day, from anywhere in the world, a phone call comes in that sounds something like this: I think I've got a terrorist suspect here, can you check it out?