---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <41cdaf8f-1fa3-42ed-9761-994af2161d55@googlegroups.com> Date: 8 Nov 2018 14:56:34 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Philadelphia 911 problems November 5th The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that residents in areas of West and Northwest Philadelphia are having problems reaching 911 from landlines, according to the Mayor's Office. The issue, the cause of which is currently unknown, began Monday afternoon, according to a mayoral spokeswoman. The city's Office of Emergency Management is working with Verizon to identify and resolve the problem, the spokeswoman said. full (very brief) article at: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/911-outage-philadelphia-landline-20181105.html?arc404=true#loaded ------------------------------ Message-ID: <f39d8063-9976-419b-97e6-51addc1e5cb9@googlegroups.com> Date: 8 Nov 2018 14:58:57 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Rural broadband speeds lower than suspected The Phila Inquirer reported that Pennsylvania State University researchers rounding the bend on a year-long study of broadband access in rural Pennsylvania are finding that speeds are even s. . . l. . . o. . . w. . .e. . .r. . . than previously thought. full article, including details of research and map of speeds: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/broadband-access-internet-speed-slow-rural-pennsylvania-penn-state-study-connectivity-20181101.html?arc404=3Dtrue ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181109024547.GA20823@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:45:47 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Phone companies slammed for lousy robocall efforts Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Ajit Pai wrote to telephone service providers on Monday, slamming them for their lousy efforts on blocking robocalls and saying that a year from now, he expects that we can all get back to actually answering our phones without finding we've been tricked by illegally spoofed caller IDs. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/08/phone-companies-slammed-for-lousy-robocall-efforts/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20181109023825.GA20789@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:38:25 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). According to brainiacs from 360 Netlab, the malware exploits vulnerabilities in a Broadcom UPnP implementation to infect vulnerable gateways, and that means a load of router manufacturers are affected because their kit uses that technology. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/08/upnp_spam_botnet_broadcom/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 09 Nov 2018