Message-ID: <20210804013334.5FD1786C@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 01:33:34 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Stop the Hidden-Fee Rip-Off
Opinion
Guest Essay
By Max Sarinsky
(Mr. Sarinsky is a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy
Integrity at New York University School of Law.)
Want to catch a ballgame at Yankee Stadium? Tickets for Sunday's game
against the Seattle Mariners are being advertised by Ticketmaster, the
league's preferred vendor, for as low as $15.
But tickets cannot be purchased there for that price. After you select
seats and reach the payment screen, Ticketmaster notifies you of a
$4.20-per-ticket "service fee," plus a $3.30 "order processing fee."
For a single ticket, the $15 advertised price is in fact $22.50 -- an
increase of 50 percent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/opinion/consumers-drip-pricing.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Message-ID: <20210804200137.200847B1@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 20:01:37 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: FTC and states challenge ISP Frontier's speed claims
By: Lesley Fair | May 20, 2021
Like the fighter pilots in the 80s action flick "Top Gun," consumers
selecting among internet service providers "feel the need - the need
for speed." In a just-filed lawsuit, the FTC and seven law enforcement
partners allege that ISP Frontier Communications Corporation has made
misleading representations that it would provide consumers with
certain internet service speeds. The complaint also alleges that in
many instances, Frontier has subscribed and charged people for faster
and more expensive levels of service than the company actually
provided - or was capable of providing - to those customers.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2021/05/ftc-states-challenge-isp-frontiers-speed-claims
Message-ID: <D61A5A82-7534-4EB8-9E7E-9689C4B38E11@roscom.com>
Date: 03 Aug 2021 15:26:19 -0400
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of
devices
Screen sharing courtesy of VNC mirrors device screens to attacker-controlled
servers.
Dan Goodin - 7/30/2021
Recently detected Android malware, some spread through the Google Play
Store, uses a novel way to supercharge the harvesting of login
credentials from more than 100 banking and cryptocurrency
applications.
The malware, which researchers from Amsterdam-based security firm
ThreatFabric are calling Vultur, is among the first Android threats to
record a device screen whenever one of the targeted apps is
opened. Vultur uses a real implementation of the VNC screen-sharing
application to mirror the screen of the infected device to an
attacker-controlled server, researchers with ThreatFabric said.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/new-bank-fraud-malware-called-vultur-infects-thousands-of-devices/
