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The Telecom Digest for September 28, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 228 : "text" Format
Messages in this Issue:
Verizon iPhone 5 Unlocked Thanks to FCC? (Monty Solomon)
Re: Bogus Called ID (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign Their Malware (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:53:19 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Verizon iPhone 5 Unlocked Thanks to FCC?
Message-ID: <p062408c2cc8a264c9241@[10.0.1.8]>

VERIZON IPHONE 5 UNLOCKED THANKS TO FCC?

James Duncan Davidson
September 24, 2012

Last Friday, Jeff Benjamin broke the news on iDownloadBlog that his 
Verizon iPhone 5 was unlocked. And not just unlocked for 
international use only-which Verizon has been offering for customers 
whose accounts have been in good standing for 60 days-but fully 
unlocked. As in works with domestic carriers like AT&T and Verizon 
unlocked. He even posted a video showing a cut-down AT&T Micro SIM in 
his Verizon iPhone 5 providing access to AT&T's network.

Jeff wasn't the only one. I've heard from a few other people that 
they've been able to use their iPhone 5 abroad. For example, Kris 
Koeller tweeted that he was able to drop a trimmed down Vodafone 
prepaid SIM he bought in Portugal (¤10 for 10GB of data!) into his 
brand new Verizon iPhone 5 and it worked just fine.

That, my friends, is kind of a big deal for iPhone customers here in 
the States.

...

http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2012/09/verizon_iphone5_unlocked




Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:14:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Bogus Called ID  
Message-ID: <k42fit$rkr$1@reader1.panix.com>

In article <eu2668hrdefvsq0ft97rpdjr5bipdto2g4@4ax.com>,
Pete Cresswell  <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
>Per Andrew Kaser:
>>Like a lot of folks, I got a robo call asking to donate as little of $3 to
>>Romney's campaign.  The call came from 202-730-9976.  Of course, it is a bogus
>>number. 
>> ...  Do subsequent entities have to accept the reported originating number?
>>Are they any controls at the origin end to prevent bogus numbers from being
>>accepted by the first switch that handles the call?  How does the Caller ID
>>number jive with all the other information that is needed to distribute the
>>revenue among all the parities that carried or handled all or part of the
>>call? 
>
>I don't know enough to speak to the specifics, but from
>experience:
>
>- When I make outgoing calls from my iPod via the "Bria"
>  app over WiFi, I spoof my home landline number so that 
>  when the phone rings on the other end they see that it's 
>  me calling.
>
>  That is a service provided free-of-charge by my VOIP
>  provider - so it must be easily available to the 
>  telemarketing industry.

The carrier providing PSTN connectivity to your VOIP provider
should cut off their service for that.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon                                              tls@panix.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud




Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:11:02 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign Their Malware
Message-ID: <p062408cacc8ab7067e36@[10.0.1.8]>

Hackers Breached Adobe Server in Order to Sign Their Malware

BY KIM ZETTER
09.27.12

The ongoing security saga involving digital certificates got a new 
and disturbing wrinkle on Thursday when software giant Adobe 
announced that attackers breached its code-signing system and used it 
to sign their malware with a valid digital certificate from Adobe.

Adobe said the attackers signed at least two malicious utility 
programs with the valid Adobe certificate. The company traced the 
problem to a compromised build server that had the ability get code 
approved from the company's code-signing system.

Adobe said it was revoking the certificate and planned to issue new 
certificates for legitimate Adobe products that were also signed with 
the same certificate, wrote Brad Arkin, senior director of product 
security and privacy for Adobe, in a blog post.

...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/adobe-digital-cert-hacked/

Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate 

http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2012/09/inappropriate-use-of-adobe-code-signing-certificate.html






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