FCC Fines Largest Wireless Carriers for Sharing Location DataFCC Fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Nearly $200 Million for Illegally Sharing Access to Customers’ Location Data A significant press release from the Federal Communications Commission today: WASHINGTON, April 29, 2024—Today, the Federal Communications Commission fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to […]
So far, the CryptoChameleon phishing scam has successfully phished over 100 victims, with many still active. Lookout has discovered a multi-pronged phishing campaign, dubbed “CryptoChameleon,” that mimics legitimate login pages for cryptocurrency platforms and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) via mobile devices. The kit uses carbon copies of SSO pages and phishing via email, SMS, and […]
Commission to Expand Scope and Rule Requirements to Reflect Current Security Landscape WASHINGTON, December 13, 2023—The Federal Communications Commission today adopted rules to modify the Commission’s 16-year-old data breach notification rules to ensure that providers of telecommunications, interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and telecommunications relay services (TRS) adequately safeguard sensitive customer information. Today’s action […]
Bleeping Computer reports: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revealed new rules to shield consumers from criminals who hijack their phone numbers in SIM swapping attacks and port-out fraud. FCC’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force introduced the new regulations in July. They are geared toward thwarting scammers who seek to access personal data and information […]
