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The Telecom Digest for Sun, 29 May 2022
Volume 41 : Issue 99 : "text" format

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Verizon Service is complete dogcarp in a major city.
Verizon DBIR: Stolen credentials led to nearly 50% of attacks
Hacker accesses a Verizon employee database and tries to ransom the data for $250,000

Message-ID: <CAMdngm_0KofUae9z0uQHbhwgVjsfy+GgP+DN_Y-xzesPkAS+3A@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 12:50:17 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Verizon Service is complete dogcarp in a major city. Is anyone else having problems with their service? I pay an arm and a leg for my phone and I barely get service. Forget about 5G: [I] never even get that when I'm paying for it. If this is how it is then I'm out after 20 years. My phone is a brick half the damn day. https://tinyurl.com/5athcwnv -- Bill Horne (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <CAMdngm8uKA6ZgRGjXnK4ddGd7-edbsrduoDK6NK1Nhhh9ie49Q@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 12:42:02 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Verizon DBIR: Stolen credentials led to nearly 50% of attacks The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report revealed enterprises' ongoing struggle with securing credentials and avoiding common mistakes such as misconfigurations. By Arielle Waldman The Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report revealed that an alarming percentage of attacks last year were caused by threat actors using a very simple tool: stolen credentials. While a rise in ransomware was the spotlight of the 15th annual report, enterprises also struggled with securing credentials and exposed web applications, as well as patching vulnerabilities and properly configuring security controls. Those common mistakes led to big consequences. https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252520686/Verizon-DBIR-Stolen-credentials-led-to-nearly-50-of-attacks -- Bill Horne (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
Message-ID: <CAMdngm_XZp53k8Oou1b1QvtwXdEyNywE=7Kf6r7Yrn_8UcuA7g@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 12:17:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Hacker accesses a Verizon employee database and tries to ransom the data for $250,000 Verizon says it's cut off contact and that the directory was "readily available" By Umar Shakir Verizon is dealing with an incident where a hacker captured a database containing company employee data, including the full names of workers as well as their ID numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers. Motherboard reported that the database is legitimate, as the anonymous hacker contacted them last week, and they were able to verify the data by calling some of the numbers. https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/27/23144418/hacker-verizon-employee-database -- Bill Horne (Please remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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