Sen. Ron Wyden

FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?
Richi Jennings | | Big Telecom, carrier, Carriers, Diameter, digital telecom, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Government, Location, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location sharing location tracking, location tracking, mobile carrier, mobile carrier vulnerability, Mobile carriers, Mobile Location Tracking, Mobile Tracking, Phone Carrier, RADIUS, roaming, Ron Wyden, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Ron Wyden, Smartphone Location Tracking, ss7, telco, Telecom, Telecom Cybersecurity, Telecom Industry, Telecom Industry Vulnerabilities, telecommunications, Telecommunications Security, telephone, telephones, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, wireless carrier
Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...
Security Boulevard

Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, annualcreditreport.com, Data breaches, Experian, Jenya Kushnir, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sen. Ron Wyden, Web Fraud 2.0
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of ...

Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, biometrics, Blake Hall, Cyberscoop, facial recognition, Federal Trade Commission, FTC Chair Lina Khan, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Alex Padilla, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Edward Markey, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, Tonya Riley
Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for "deceptive statements" the company and its founder allegedly made over ...

Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Apple, Bloomberg, Bug, Discord, facebook, Instagram, Lapsus$, Meta, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sen. Ron Wyden, Snapchat, Twitter, Web Fraud 2.0
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of ...

IRS: Selfies Now Optional, Biometric Data to Be Deleted
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, login.gov, Sen. Ron Wyden, U.S. General Services Administration
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said Monday that taxpayers are no longer required to provide facial scans to create an account online at irs.gov. In lieu of providing biometric data, taxpayers ...

IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Washington Post, U.S. General Services Administration
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency's website. The reversal comes as ...

When Security Takes a Backseat to Productivity
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Data breaches, Sen. Ron Wyden, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, wikileaks
"We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change." -CIA's Wikileaks Task Force. So ends a key ...

FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
BrianKrebs | | fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, Joseph Cox, New York Times, Securus Technologies, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, vice.com, Wall Street Journal
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers' location information without taking adequate ...

Lock Him Up: Why Wyden Says Zuckerberg needs ‘Prison Term’
Richi Jennings | | Communications Decency Act, Compliance, Cybersecurity, facebook, Information Security, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, security, Sen. Ron Wyden
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blurts out his most outspoken criticism yet of Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO stands accused of lying to and hurting the American people. I’m not 100% sure those are ...
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FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Adav Noti, Campaign Legal Center, Dan Petalas, Defending Digital Campaigns, Department of Homeland Security, Eric Geller, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Federal Election Commission, Garvey Schubert Barer, Microsoft Corp., Politico, Sen. Ron Wyden, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, The New York Times
The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today companies can offer discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided they already do the same for ...