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Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

August 7, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, Coinbase, Gemini Trust, Joel Ortiz, motherboard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, number port-out scams, Ricky Handschumacher, SIM swap scams, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, trezor, Tyler Winklevoss

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 19:27:23 +0000

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher, an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.”

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Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

June 22, 2018 admin 3Cinteractive, 4th Amendment, A Little Sunshine, Amy Howe, AT&T, Carpenter v. United States, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lynch, LocationSmart, SCOTUSblog.com, Securus Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:30:13 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, but experts say it may have limited bearing on the selling of real-time customer location data by the wireless carriers to third-party companies.

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AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

June 19, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, Blake Reid, Carnegie Mellon University, Karen Zacharia, Locaid, LocationSmart, Robert Xiao, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Timothy P. McKone, University of Colorado School of Law, Verizon, Zumigo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:03:44 +0000

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded to requests from a U.S. senator for more details about how the carriers are managing access to this extremely sensitive information. While three out of four providers said they had cancelled data sharing agreements with some of the offending companies, only one — Verizon — pledged to terminate all of them and initiate a wholesale review of their location data-sharing practices.

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Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:03:44 +0000

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Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

May 26, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Ajit Pai, Amazon, Andrew Smith, AOL, apple, AT&T, AT&T Mobility, CDT, Center for Democracy & Technology, comcast, CompuServe, Donald Trump, Facebook, FCC, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, FTC Act, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, go90, google, LocationSmart, Michelle De Mooy, net neutrality, Securus Technologies, Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Ron Wyden, Slate, Sponsored Data, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The Hill, The New York Times, Tom Wheeler, TracFone, Verizon, Will Oremus

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 16:18:48 +0000

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 details. In the wake of these consumer privacy debacles, many are left wondering who’s responsible for policing these industries? How exactly did we get to this point? What prospects are there for changes to address this national privacy crisis at the legislative and regulatory levels? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in this article.

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Mobile Giants: Please Don’t Share the Where

May 22, 2018 admin 3Cinteractive, AT&T, Carnegie Mellon University, Latest Warnings, LocationSmart, Microsemi, Robert Xiao, Securus, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Travis County Jail, Verizon, Virustotal.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 16:05:50 +0000

Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn’t exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call quality and to route any emergency 911 calls straight to your location. But now, the major mobile providers in the United States — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — are selling this location information to third party companies — in real time — without your consent or a court order, and with apparently zero accountability for how this data will be used, stored, shared or protected. It may be tough to put a price on one’s location privacy, but here’s something of which you can be sure: The mobile carriers are selling data about where you are at any time, without your consent, to third-parties for probably far less than you might be willing to pay to secure it.

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Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

May 17, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, data breaches, Latest Warnings, LocationSmart, Mario Proietti, panerabread.com breach, Securus, Securus Technologies, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 18:29:18 +0000

LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company took the vulnerable service offline early this afternoon after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, which verified that it could be used to reveal the location of any AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon phone in the United States to an accuracy of within a few hundred yards.

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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

May 9, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, California Utility Exchange, Carrie Kerskie, Centralized Credit Check Systems, Consumers Union, credit freeze, Equifax, Equifax Credit Information Services Inc, Equifax Information Services LLC, Experian, Google Chrome 66, Hodges University, Identity Fraud Institute, Innovis, National Consumer Telecommunications and Utilities Exchange, NCTUE, nctue.com, New York Data Exchange, security freeze, Symantec, Trans Union, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 13:36:04 +0000

I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new mobile phone accounts in the names of people who have already frozen their credit files with the big-three credit bureaus. Here’s a look at what may be going on, and how you can protect yourself.