FCC Going After Companies That Block Personal WiFi

November 2, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

Some of you may remember that the FCC fined Marriott $600,000 a year ago when it was disclosed that Marriott was blocking personal WiFi hot spots so that customers were forced to use the Hotel’s convention centers WiFi, which often costs hundreds of dollars a day or more. This summer, the FCC fined Smart City, an […]

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Hacks, Security Practices

Hilton Honors Web Site Flaw Found and Fixed

March 24, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

I have to both harass and complement Hilton. Until recently, Hilton was offering Honors members 1,000 points to change their passwords. First the harassment: A security staffer at BancSec figured out that you could hijack any other Honors account by guessing or knowing the account number and making a small change to the site’s HTML. The […]

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