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Former Verizon Wireless employee charged with identity theft

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2008-04-27 09:43:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Verizon Wireless Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, address, Social Security number, and/or Verizon Wireless account number Breach Description A former employee of Verizon Wireless who worked in a telesales position has been charged with identity theft by the Somerset County,...
 
Tags: verizon wireless, verizon, verizon wireless customers, employee, identity, identity theft, theft, sensitive personal information, social security
 
 
 
 
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Verizon Business Report Speaks Volumes

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2008-06-12 01:14:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...Verizon Business 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report . I'd like to quote the linked blog post and a previous article titled I Was an Anti-MSS Zealot , both of which I recommend reading in their entirety. First I cite some background on the study Verizon Business began an initiative in 2007 to identify a comprehensive set of metrics to...
 
Tags: compromise, simply system compromise, data compromise investigation, data covers, data, data compromise, verizon, verizon business, risk
 
 
 
 
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700 MHz Winners Talk: Google, AT&T, Verizon

2008-04-04 11:45:52 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Verizon and AT&T have announced they'll build LTE (Long Term Evolution) cell data networks, a GSM standard, in the 700 MHz band. AT&T says their network will come online starting in 2012; Verizon, 2010 Google posted on their own blog and told the New York Times that they were happy enough losing, even though they bid to win...sort of. They...
 
Tags: verizon, mhz spectrum auction, mhz spectrum, verizon wireless, google, auction, ensure verizon lives, spectrum, att
 
 
 
 
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Misc Reading Related To Verizon Breach Report

2008-07-03 14:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Verizon Security Breach Investigations report. Here are some things from the pile which I found fun Report itself [PDF] and brief on it from Verizon (and two fun follow-ups, this and this here 90% of all statistics can be made to say anything 50% of the time, aka my thoughts on the Verizon report Data Breach Post Mortem Offers Surprises "...
 
Tags: verizon, report, fun, fun follow-ups, logs, system logs, verizon report, crime scene devoid, disturbingly common occurrence
 
 
 
 
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Verizon mixes up two subscribers private info, wont fix!

2008-01-26 14:09:17 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
To put it bluntly, Verizon has shown that they dont care - at all - about protecting their users private, confidential information. Two random subscribers can see each others private details - address, phone numbers, credit card details, account info, etc. After multiple service requests, Verizon continues to ignore it. Identity theft anyone
 
Tags: verizon, credit card details, details, multiple service requests, verizon continues, random subscribers, identity theft, account info, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Verizon Study Continues to Demolish Myths

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2008-06-15 02:31:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...Verizon's Russ Cooper. Wow, keep going guys. As in before, I recommend reading the whole post. Below are my favorite excerpts Our data shows that in only 18% of cases in the hacking category (see Figure 11) did the attack have anything to do with a patchable vulnerability. Further analysis in the study (Figure 12) showed that 90% of those...
 
Tags: study, average companies, companies, control effectiveness study, verizon, control, standard configurations, computers, lightweight standard configurations
 
 
 
 
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Verizon Business launches managed Unified Threat Management service

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Verizon Business expanded its managed services portfolio today by announcing that it will be offering a Unified Threat Management service that includes firewall, antivirus and spam services, content filtering and VPN capabilities
 
Tags: threat management service, verizon business, vpn capabilities, spam services, services portfolio, includes firewall, content, antivirus
 
 
 
 
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Verizon Rejects Hollywoods Call to Aid Piracy Fight

2008-02-06 19:30:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Unlike AT&T, Verizon wont monitor its network to block unauthorized copying. That would violate customer privacy, it says, and would be expensive too
 
Tags: unlike att, verizon, customer privacy, network, block, monitor, expensive
 
 
 
 
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Verizon Business unveils security log management service

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Verizon Business today added a log management feature to its managed security services portfolio that the company says will help businesses efficiently track information needed to meet data security regulations
 
Tags: verizon business, log management feature, security services portfolio, data security regulations, company