Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:39:42 +0000
Smishing attacks, or phishing attempts via SMS, are on the rise, and Americans are fighting off billions of spam messages each month.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:29:56 +0000
Cleo Communications took advantage of the FCC’s EBB program to scam those already struggling with money when the pandemic struck.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:51:08 +0000
According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok being a video app is the “sheep’s clothing”, suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:37:17 +0000
Robocalls and scam calls have been a longstanding problem. For 2021, the FTC has recorded its highest number of victims yet.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:12:10 +0000
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 precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don’t go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:44:55 +0000
Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via “SIM swapping,” a particularly invasive form of fraud that involves tricking a target’s mobile carrier into transferring someone’s wireless service to a device they control. But the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the entity responsible for overseeing wireless industry practices, has so far remained largely silent on the matter. Now, a cadre of Senate lawmakers is demanding to know what, if anything, the agency might be doing to track and combat SIM swapping.
Read moreCredit to Author: Kayla Matthews| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:43:07 +0000
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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is, in some ways, similar to Europe's GDPR. This rule, which goes into effect in 2020, gives individual users more ownership over their own data. Users can even refuse to allow companies to sell their online data. As the compliance deadline approaches, CSO Online contributor Maria Kolokov and senior editor Michael Nadeau discuss with Juliet how CCPA may shift business models, change online behavior and reveal where exactly our data has been. Some tech companies, like Google, are even trying to exempt themselves from regulation. Failure to adhere to the rule could be an "extinction level" event.