---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <7FA86A00-8D21-4C13-8EDA-3296224B7F58@roscom.com> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:06:20 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: FCC plans total repeal of net neutrality rules By Margaret Harding Mcgill Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate. The commission will vote on the proposal in December, some seven months after it laid the groundwork for scuttling the rules that require internet service providers like Comcast or AT&T to treat web traffic equally. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/net-neutrality-repeal-fcc-251824 ***** Moderator's Note ***** Courtesy of John Oliver's show "Last Week Tonight (HBO)", there is an easy way to get your opinion heard: go to http://gofccyourself.com/ and click on the "Express" button to file a short comment on the proceeding. Mr. Oliver gives a very clear and concise overview of the issue on youtube. It's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak . Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171122033253.GA9530@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:32:53 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Why Marissa Mayer Could Cost Verizon Hundreds of Millions By Mark Bergen Verizon Communications Inc. paid $4.5 billion for Yahoo! Inc.'s web businesses. Then it took a $500 million hit for post-acquisition costs. It's poised to pay up again, thanks to a high-profile deal struck by Marissa Mayer when she ran the internet company. Executives at the telecom giant are negotiating a bill they will likely owe Mozilla Corp., owner of the Firefox browser, after an expensive web search deal fell apart. Verizon could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on how the agreement is interpreted, according to people familiar with the deal and online chat logs shared with Bloomberg. The bill could also come in lower, the people said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/verizon-is-said-to-be-on-the-hook-for-mayer-s-yahoo-search-deal -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20171122032943.GA5687@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:29:43 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Eliminating Net Neutrality Rules Will Favor Carriers Over Internet Content Providers By Aaron Pressman Less than a year after taking control of the top federal telecom regulator, commissioners appointed by President Donald Trump are poised to eliminate net neutrality rules that bar Internet providers from creating slow and fast lanes for online content. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Tuesday unveiled his plan to erase the agency's 2015 ban on Internet service providers discriminating against certain online content and services while favoring others. Pai's plan also blocks state and local governments from imposing their own net neutrality rules. http://fortune.com/2017/11/21/net-neutrality-fcc-winners-losers/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <2C1FC542-E5AD-4F6D-A09B-48777B55B7AA@roscom.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:07:17 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Mobile banking Trojan sneaks into Google Play targeting Wells Fargo, Chase and Citibank customers Mobile banking Trojan sneaks into Google Play targeting Wells Fargo, Chase and Citibank customers. By Nikolaos Chrysaidos, with Niels Croese (SfyLabs) and Lukas Stefanko (ESET) Recently, the mobile threat intelligence team at Avast collaborated with researchers at ESET and SfyLabs to examine a new version of BankBot, a piece of mobile banking malware that has snuck into Google Play on numerous occasions this year, targeting apps of large banks including WellsFargo, Chase, DiBa and Citibank and their users in the U.S., Australia, Germany, Netherlands, France, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Russia, Dominican Republic, Singapore and Philippines. The new version of BankBot has been hiding in apps that pose as supposedly trustworthy flashlight apps, tricking users into downloading them, in a first campaign. In a second campaign, the solitaire games and a cleaner app have been dropping additional kinds of malware besides BankBot, called Mazar and Red Alert (Mazar was recently described by ESET and we won't dive into the details here). However, instead of bringing light, joy and convenience into their users' lives, the dark intention of these apps has been to spy on users, collect their bank login details and steal their money. https://blog.avast.com/mobile-banking-trojan-sneaks-into-google-play-targeting-wells-fargo-chase-and-citibank-customers ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 22 Nov 2017