Thurs. Oct. 20, 2021 | By Jacob Ryan – wfpl | State attorneys arguing that police don’t need a search warrant to track a person’s location in real-time through their cell phone were met with skepticism from the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday. The state’s highest court heard arguments in a case that stems from […]
Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 | By Brian Krebs – Krebs| The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s online identity. In […]
Sat. Oct. 2, 2021 | By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng – tnw | A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many […]
Fri. Oct. 1, 2021 | By Elliot S. Rosenwald , Jayce Born and Ronald Lee – mondaq | In 2016, Edward Soybel, a disgruntled former employee, began perpetrating cyberattacks against his former employer, W.W. Grainger, Inc. (Grainger), an industrial supply company. One of Grainger’s key service offerings, KeepStock, uses large database tables stored on Grainger’s […]
Thurs. Sept. 30, 2021 | By Heather Kelly – Washington Post | If you have an old phone, an alarm system or an ankle monitor, your tech could stop working properly next year. Kami Griffiths has a perfectly fine phone. It’s your standard Samsung Galaxy smartphone with all the important apps, a decent camera and […]
