---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20170716190030.GA18778@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:00:30 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T, Time Warner hit bumps on way to merger BY Harper Neidig The government's review of the AT&T-Time Warner merger is not going as smoothly as the companies hoped. The $85 billion deal is widely expected to be approved by the Justice Department, but it is running into a number of political road bumps unusual even for controversial mega-mergers. http://thehill.com/policy/technology/342131-att-time-warner-hit-bumps-on-way-to-merger -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170716181128.GA18461@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:11:28 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon data of 6 million users leaked online Verizon confirmed on Wednesday the personal data of 6 million customers has leaked online. The security issue, uncovered by research from cybersecurity firm UpGuard, was caused by a misconfigured security setting on a cloud server due to "human error." The error made customer phone numbers, names, and some PIN codes publicly available online. PIN codes are used to confirm the identity of people who call for customer service. http://wreg.com/2017/07/15/verizon-data-of-6-million-users-leaked-online/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170716190457.GA18817@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:04:57 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Cloud Leak: Verizon Customer Data Exposed by Vendor Cloud Leak: Verizon Customer Data Exposed by Vendor By Jill Leovy Names, phone numbers and other information of millions of customers of Verizon were made available on a publicly accessible storage area owned by one of the company's vendors, according an enterprise se- curity software company that discovered the exposed data. The data repository "was totally publicly accessible, anyone entering a URL in a browser would have been able to access it," said Dan O'Sullivan, cyber-resilience analyst with UpGuard, the Mountain View, Calif. company that found the data. http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=1000034MTW9G -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20170716185221.GA18718@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:52:21 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T is considering splitting its telecom and media assets after acquiring Time Warner AT&T is considering splitting its telecom and media assets after acquiring Time Warner Inc., giving AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson oversight over two separate divisions. The structure under consideration, reported earlier by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, would put AT&T's DirectTV and telecom operations in one unit and the Time Warner media assets in another. Such a split could see AT&T chief strategy officer John Donovan promoted to CEO of the telecom unit, while AT&T entertainment chief John Stankey takes over the media assets, according to the reports. The media unit would include Time Warner's HBO, Warner Bros., and Turner cable channels, which includes CNN. http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/14/media/att-time-warner-media-telecom/index.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 17 Jul 2017