Millions of Telco Customers Face Privacy Breach

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Customers of Telco Companies Face
Privacy Breach

Customers of Telco Companies Face
Privacy Breach 08/15/2004 05:51 AM
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.

RentACoder Privacy Breach

RentACoder Privacy Breach 02/10/2004 02:49 AM

Government agency exposes day-care data: RentACoder lands right in the thick of this one.

Two separate databases with personal information about children and their families were exposed. In one case, a list of children in the county's low-income day-care program was intentionally posted for download on Jan. 22 to a Web site used by computer programmers to hire temporary help. Another database, listing families participating in the county's foster care program, was posted to the same Web site in November. Both remained on the site, free for anyone to download, until they were removed Thursday.

The site in question was RentACoder, which we've talked about before. Apparently a subcontrator was having a problem with one of the tables, and thought nothing of posting a zipped copy of the database to a RentACoder forum. Sadly, the database contained information on the routines and whereabouts of hundreds of low-income New York children. Ugly.

For the record, it wasn't so much RentACoder's fault, but they're still in the thick of it according to the article. This can't be good for publicity. Via Slashdot.

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Using Technology to Re-Experience the
Good Old-Fashioned Way of Customer
Support, Putting Businesses and
Customers Back in Time - Live
Face-to-Face

Using Technology to Re-Experience the
Good Old-Fashioned Way of Customer
Support, Putting Businesses and
Customers Back in Time - Live
Face-to-Face 08/27/2004 01:50 PM
iSupport.tv has announced its live face-to-face and interactive online customer support services, helping business to reach more customers, increase sales, and reduce support cost in a timely and cost-effective manner. It is live face-to-face services because with one click, customers will see a live face. It is interactive because customers can ask any questions via webcam, microphone, or text chat and get answers in real-time. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Power & Telephone Supply Company to
Distribute Coaxsys’ TVNET to Telco
Customers

Power & Telephone Supply Company to
Distribute Coaxsys’ TVNET to Telco
Customers 04/05/2005 01:57 PM
Coaxsys Expands Distribution to Meet Increased Demand [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

George Bush fears email privacy breach

George Bush fears email privacy breach 04/15/2005 07:47 AM
'I don't want you reading my personal stuff', prez tells press

Bill Gates spends millions to ensure
privacy at home

Bill Gates spends millions to ensure
privacy at home 01/18/2004 11:27 AM
What happens when Bill and Melinda Gates want their privacy? They buy up the neighborhood. Over the past decade, representatives for the world's richest man and his wife have purchased 11 properties, including nine houses surrounding their massive lakefront estate in this Seattle suburb.

Millions face rail travel misery

Millions face rail travel misery 06/21/2004 12:39 PM
Up to 15,000 workers on Network Rail and London Underground call a joint 24-hour strike over pay.

Telco Guy Shows Telco Spots

Telco Guy Shows Telco Spots 06/07/2004 03:36 PM
For a few minutes this morning at the D conference, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg sounded like a new age telecommunications...

PeopleSoft Customers Remain Loyal in the
Face of Oracle Takeover

PeopleSoft Customers Remain Loyal in the
Face of Oracle Takeover 09/22/2004 07:03 PM
Customers at the PeopleSoft Connect user conference are choosing not to dwell—at least publicly—on the looming threat of Oracle's takeover bid.

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl 07/09/2004 04:52 AM

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Creating a Privacy Policy Compliant with
the New Online Privacy Protection Act

Creating a Privacy Policy Compliant with
the New Online Privacy Protection Act 12/12/2003 07:51 PM
IRMI Dec 12 2003 6:22PM ET

EFF Privacy Coalition Presses Congress
for Hearings on Air Traveler Privacy

EFF Privacy Coalition Presses Congress
for Hearings on Air Traveler Privacy 02/17/2004 02:34 PM
Electronic Frontier Foundations Feb 17 2004 6:22PM GMT

Voipfone Package Builder Puts VoIP
Customers in Full Control of their
Telephone Service and Saves Customers
Money

Voipfone Package Builder Puts VoIP
Customers in Full Control of their
Telephone Service and Saves Customers
Money 06/05/2005 11:16 PM
Voipfone (http://www.voipfone.co.uk), the expanding London-based Internet Telephone provider of Voice over Internet (VoIP) services, today announces the launch of its Package Builder™ facility which allows customers to select the precise bundle of features they desire for their telephony usage.No more Plans. [PRWEB Jun 4, 2005]

Speak Shop and Probigua Partner to Offer
Face-to-Face Online Spanish Tutoring

Speak Shop and Probigua Partner to Offer
Face-to-Face Online Spanish Tutoring 04/07/2005 03:41 AM
Speak Shop puts Guatemalan instructors face-to-face with students all over the world, and no one has to leave their desk. For the first time, these tutors can benefit from global e-commerce. [PRWEB Apr 7, 2005]

Internet Challenges Face-to-Face
Mingling: Single Parents Group Losing
Members To Time Crunch, Too

Internet Challenges Face-to-Face
Mingling: Single Parents Group Losing
Members To Time Crunch, Too 08/15/2004 06:02 AM
Washingtonpost.com - Sun Aug 15, 03:18 am GMT

Do-It-Yourself VOIP Telco

Do-It-Yourself VOIP Telco 05/28/2004 09:23 AM

Telco Power

Telco Power 11/14/2003 08:01 AM
Here's a fantastic new energy source that could just mean the end of our energy woes! (Thanks to Mike O'Dell for the link.)...

First-ever VoIP telco?

First-ever VoIP telco? 11/05/2003 01:19 PM
Via Kevin Werbach's blog:

VC Fred Wilson announces that ITXC, Tom Evslin's VOIP backbone company, is merging with Teleglobe to form the world's third largest long-distance company. This is a significant development. Like several of us, Tom recognized years ago that VOIP was the future of the telephone business, but he actually did something to make it happen.

Link to ITXC press release.

The First Virtual Telco?

The First Virtual Telco? 05/24/2004 12:46 PM
I think we're watching the birth of the the first 21st-century phone company.  A telco that virtualizes and outsources everything, except for a core IP backbone and a set of valuable business relationships and expertise.  A company built for an all-VOIP, converged, wired/wireless telecom industry. 

Not Vonage or Skype.  I'll give you a hint: it was also the first great 20th century phone company.  It's AT&T.

AT&T is hollowing itself out -- and that's a good thing.  Under Dave Dorman, AT&T has invested heavily in building a true all-IP backbone and deploying VOIP offerings.  Following the sale of AT&T Wireless to Cingular and AT&T's subsequent deal with Sprint PCS, AT&T is poised to offer a full suite of wireless offerings without the cost of owning a cellular network.  And it is still the biggest player in the lucrative business services market, with a national brand second to none.

Not that there aren't challenges.  AT&T's consumer long-distance business is dying. Its efforts to preserve government-mandated wholesale discounts are collapsing.  The FCC shot down its attempt to treat VOIP backbone traffic an information service, exempt from paying access charges.  It faces big competitors like Verizon, SBC, and Comcast, who control the last-mile pipes into the home.  It still has plenty of fat and legacy infrastructure.  And the company has more than its share of self-inflicted wounds.  There is no guarantee AT&T will survive the next five years as an independent company.

Nonetheless, the AT&T of today comes closer than any of its rivals to my vision of the phone company of tomorrow. 

Face to Face With Your Users:Running a
Nondirected Interview

Face to Face With Your Users:Running a
Nondirected Interview 01/28/2003 07:22 AM

Face to Face With Your Users: Running a
Nondirected Interview

Face to Face With Your Users: Running a
Nondirected Interview 01/24/2003 05:23 AM

Bangkok Telco Adds Wi-Fi

Bangkok Telco Adds Wi-Fi 01/18/2004 07:06 PM
Fixed-line provider TOT will open its TNET Wi-Fi service: TOT is a fixed-line provider that's rolling out more advanced features for land lines (including SMS and caller ID), but it's also trying out Wi-Fi at 100 baht per hour or about US$2.50. The first location is at a cafe that will also have 12 computers available; future locations include other branches of this cafe and supermarkets. Pricing deregulation appears to be driving the landline services into more competition against increasingly inexpensive package deals from the cellular operators, according to this article's details....

Japanese telco looks to Linux

Japanese telco looks to Linux 12/04/2003 06:07 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 4 2003 5:07AM ET

One.Tel in broadband - telco bundle

One.Tel in broadband - telco bundle 07/21/2004 07:20 AM
The Register Jul 21 2004 12:08PM GMT

BEA To Target Telco Web Services

BEA To Target Telco Web Services 04/08/2005 08:20 PM

Telco NTL standardises on Microsoft

Telco NTL standardises on Microsoft 06/01/2004 05:37 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 1 2004 10:28AM GMT

Bringing you "Face To Face" with the
Middle East

Bringing you "Face To Face" with the
Middle East 07/15/2004 03:10 AM
You can now have face-to-face videoconference meetings with your colleagues, clients and associates throughout the Middle East. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]

E-mail still riskier than face-to-face
chat

E-mail still riskier than face-to-face
chat 08/22/2004 09:02 PM
ZDNet Australia Aug 23 2004 1:37AM GMT

Powell Comes Face to Face with Tsunami
Horror

Powell Comes Face to Face with Tsunami
Horror 01/05/2005 08:31 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 5 2005 12:49PM GMT

Second telco makes LLU investment plan

Second telco makes LLU investment plan 09/21/2004 03:04 PM
Personal Computer World Sep 21 2004 6:48PM GMT

Centrica buys Telco Global for £43m

Centrica buys Telco Global for £43m 09/24/2004 09:09 AM
Gains 250k punters

Telco Plan Boon for Business?

Telco Plan Boon for Business? 08/23/2004 02:39 PM
A new plan to overhaul the byzantine payment system that carriers use to complete one another's calls could be a boon to enterprises but a bane to consumers.

New E-Commerce Go Public Company in
Telco

New E-Commerce Go Public Company in
Telco 02/01/2005 08:48 PM
From January 2005, legal start the fastest networking. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine

Telco Spams and Gets Huge Fine 03/19/2005 03:08 AM
Slashdot Mar 17 2005 12:47PM GMT

ABC picks Telstra for telco services

ABC picks Telstra for telco services 06/18/2004 03:23 AM
ZDNet Australia Jun 18 2004 7:33AM GMT

Croatian telco workers KO Kylie gig

Croatian telco workers KO Kylie gig 09/16/2004 09:11 AM
Brief We should be so lucky

Europe's big biz starts buying telco kit
again

Europe's big biz starts buying telco kit
again 12/16/2003 07:50 AM
Hybrid IP systems are must have

The Telco Taint Hits BellSouth

The Telco Taint Hits BellSouth 11/13/2003 08:50 AM
Fortune Nov 13 2003 8:36AM ET

ACA to monitor indigenous telco services

ACA to monitor indigenous telco services 05/28/2004 04:57 AM
ZDNet Australia May 28 2004 8:34AM GMT
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