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Date |
Content |
| 11449 | 3/9/2010 | Malware turns your cell phone against you
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35778945/ns/technology_and_science-w...
By Eric Bland - DiscoveryNews
Malware could tap into phone's microphone, GPS and even your battery.
Malicious software fo...
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| 11448 | 3/6/2010 | Traffic pumping: threat to everyone? (or just AT&T)
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/03/traffic-pumping-thre...
Did you know that while decent, law-abiding citizens are minding their own business and making perfectly respectable phone call...
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| 11446 | 3/4/2010 | The No. 1 Source of Identity Theft
About half of all identity theft is committed by close friends and relatives, who lift a wallet or pocketbook and not only stea...
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| 11443 | 3/3/2010 | Verizon resolves data outage in Eastern U.S.
fiercewireless.com - By Phil Goldstein
Verizon Wireless confirmed that some customers across parts of the Eastern United St...
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| 11441 | 3/2/2010 | 7 Critical LTE Questions Answered
As seen in the 3/4/10 edition of the RF Globalnet (www.rfglobalnet.com) newsletter.
No cellular mobile communication technol...
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| 11442 | 3/2/2010 | Authorities bust 3 in infection of 13M computers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_botnet_bu...
By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer Jordan Robertson
SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities have smashed one of the world's bigge...
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| 11447 | 3/2/2010 | Google Attack Performed by 'Amateur' Botnet
By: Brian Prince
Security researchers at Damballa analyzed the command and control activity of the botnet associated with th...
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| 11440 | 3/1/2010 | France Telecom says 170,000 fixed lines hit by storm damage
Telecompaper
Over 2,000 France Telecom technicians and network specialists have been working since 28 February to re-establ...
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| 11444 | 3/1/2010 | IRS Phishing Sites - Fax Number Scam
Since February of 2009 the Internal Revenue Service's Online Fraud Detection & Prevention (OFDP) team has been actively detecti...
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| 11445 | 3/1/2010 | Misdials help ‘crammers’ ring up millions in phone bill scam
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/...
Washington Post:
Two brothers made a devilish fortune in the details of phone bills, according to a federal investigation. T...
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| 11438 | 2/28/2010 | How Tobechi Onwuhara Masterminded $44 Million Bank Fraud in America
http://www.africaninterest.com/front-page/how-tobechi-onwuhara-m...
By Seyi Oduyela/Washington, DC
Onwuhara was able to steal $44 million from banks across the country, going nearly undetected...
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| 11439 | 2/27/2010 | Verizon: LTE to Replace 3G By 2013
http://blog.laptopmag.com/verizon-lte-to-replace-3g-by-2013
By Marc Flores, Laptop Magazine
Rolling out a massive network upgrade can be about as slow as pouring molasses, so we think ...
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| 11437 | 2/26/2010 | Browsers joust for position
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/962ab5f0-2277-11df-a93d-00144feab49a,dwp...
From Monday, the 100m-plus users of Windows-based PCs in Europe who have Internet Explorer set as their default web browser wil...
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| 11436 | 2/25/2010 | Clearwire results show strategy starting to bear fruit
rethinkwireless.com - by Caroline Gabriel
Clearwire is starting to show the fruits of its ambitious build-out schedule and n...
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| 11434 | 2/24/2010 | Italian telcos caught up in massive Mafia fraud
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/02/24/urni...
Italy's telecom sector Wednesday was reeling from the news that two of its biggest operators were caught up in a massive fraud ...
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| 11433 | 2/23/2010 | FTC Warns Of Widespread Data Breaches
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID...
By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
Almost 100 organizations have been notified by the agency that sensitive personal data a...
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| 11432 | 2/22/2010 | Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers Inside Gas Station Pumps
http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/attacks/sh...
By Kelly Jackson Higgins - DarkReading
Wave of recent bank-card skimming incidents demonstrate how sophisticated the scam h...
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| 11431 | 2/21/2010 | Calling 911? That'll Be $300 (News You Could Do Without)
By Mike Masnick from the hope-it's-a-big-emergency dept on Friday, February 19th, 2010 @ 1:28PM
Apparently, the town of Trac...
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| 11435 | 2/19/2010 | The Snitch in Your Pocket
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233916
By Michael Isikoff | NEWSWEEK - From the magazine issue dated Mar 1, 2010
Law enforcement is tracking Americans' cell phones...
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| 11430 | 2/17/2010 | US jury convicts Nigerian on wire fraud charges
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9157858/
A 31-year-old Nigerian man could face up to 20 years in prison after being convicted Tuesday of charges related to running adva...
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| 11429 | 2/16/2010 | Feds allow prison phone jamming test
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/ap_on_hi_te/us_prisons_cell_...
Equipment that jams cell phones will get its first federally sanctioned test inside a prison in Maryland this week, as state of...
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| 11423 | 2/12/2010 | WiMAX scores second major win in Chinese LTE heartland
rethinkwireless.com - by Caroline Gabriel
China is generally perceived to be a closed market to WiMAX, given the devotion of...
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| 11425 | 2/12/2010 | 98% of hackers also hit businesses with Dial Through Fraud
http://www.btintheloop.com/february_2010/98_of_hackers_also_hit_...
There could be a nasty surprise in store for businesses that took a long Christmas/New Year break. Their next phone bill could ...
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| 11426 | 2/12/2010 | Feds want cell phone locations without warrant
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35368525/ns/business/
By Maryclaire Dale - Associated Press
Showdown on closely watched issue unfolding in federal appeals court.
PHILADELPHIA ...
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| 11428 | 2/12/2010 | Should The Feds Need A Warrant To Find Out Where Your Mobile Phone Is?
techdirt - by Mike Masnick
A couple months ago, we wrote about Julian Sanchez's realization (due to odd choices in gov't ag...
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