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Businesses ignore telecoms fraud

2008-07-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x84733f0 in Network World on Security
 
Businesses are ignoring the problem of telecoms fraud, even though the potential losses could be huge. According to telecoms supplier, Damovo, businesses underestimate how much they could be affected by such fraud, although its recent survey found that one organization lost 50,000 through telecoms fraud
 
Tags: fraud, telecoms fraud, businesses, recent survey, telecoms supplier, organization lost, potential losses, damovo, huge
 
 
 
 
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Help EFF Continue the Fight Against Warrantless Wiretapping!

2008-07-10 14:18:03 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...telecoms off the hook. If the telecoms are not held accountable, the administration will remain unchecked in its warrantless wiretapping of innocent Americans. This must stop! We need your help to take the fight to the next level. Were going to challenge Congresss unconstitutional grant of immunity in our case against AT&T. Were going to...
 
Tags: eff, eff sued att, fight, warrantless, immunity, retroactive immunity, congress, congress completely, att
 
 
 
 
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European Commission Moves Forward on In-Flight Mobile Plan

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2008-04-07 12:21:42 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding, who already through force of will backed down European carriers to drop their cross-border roaming rates--later backed up by regulation--suggests that carriers think long and hard about the rates they charge for in-flight service. "However, if consumers receive shock phone bills, the service will not...
 
Tags: mhz, mhz band, mhz frequencies, mhz bands, pan-european telecom rules, rules, in-flight service, service, ground stations
 
 
 
 
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Secret Data in FBI Wiretap Audit Revealed With Ctrl+C

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2008-05-21 02:09:59 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...telecoms to make their legacy phone switches comply with 1995 wiretapping rules. That report detailed how the FBI had finished spending its allotted $500 million to help telephone companies retrofit their old switches to make them compliant with the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act or Calea even as federal wiretaps target...
 
Tags: fbi, supposedly sensitive information, report, government report, sensitive, information, law enforcement act, telephone companies retrofit, march report
 
 
 
 
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Security Briefing: June 16th

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2008-06-16 11:05:52 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...telecoms patrol Internet? | Mercury News Database fuels pedophile fears | Australian IT When weak web security can expose medical records | ARN Tags: News , Daily Links , Security Blog , Information Security , Security News
 
Tags: mercury news, news, security news, monday, weak web security, expose medical records, judge scuttles ameritrade, telecoms patrol internet, fde anymore
 
 
 
 
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House approves surveillance bill, protects telecoms

2008-06-20 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing wide-ranging surveillance of phone calls and e-mails in and out of the U.S
 
Tags: house, surveillance, phone calls, bill, representatives, e-mails
 
 
 
 
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House approves surveillance bill, protects telecoms

2008-06-20 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that would continue a controversial surveillance program at the U.S. National Security Agency with limited court oversight, while likely ending lawsuits against telecommunications carriers that participated in the program
 
Tags: program, controversial surveillance program, national security agency, house, court oversight, carriers, lawsuits, representatives, continue
 
 
 
 
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Senate delays vote on surveillance bill until July

2008-06-27 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Senate has delayed a vote on a controversial surveillance bill that would allow a U.S. government spying program to continue and likely result in the dismissal of dozens of lawsuits against telecoms that took part in the program
 
Tags: controversial surveillance bill, vote, program, government, lawsuits, dozens, telecoms, continue, dismissal
 
 
 
 
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Dont elect us for you, elect us for ,,,,US!

2008-06-27 18:00:26 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...telecoms that aided the governments warrantless wiretapping program received twice as much money, on average, from telcom political action groups?than Democrats whose opposed the idea in?March and again last Friday, according to an analysis of campaign donations by Maplight.org
 
Tags: telcom political action, telecom amnesty flip-floppers, governments warrantless, telecom dollars, democrats, campaign donations, legal amnesty, maplight, money
 
 
 
 
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Telecom Amnesty Foes Lobby Obama Using Obama Tech

2008-06-30 21:52:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security