Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 15, 2019

February 15, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Anybody Know What 5G Cellular Means? 5G is the next generation of cellular, promising blindingly fast service and web page loads in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really exist yet. Yes, a few carriers have set up a few cell sites in a few cities, but there are basically NO phones that […]

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Cell Carriers Agree – AGAIN – To Stop Selling Your Location Data – HONEST!

January 15, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Motherboard was able to buy real time location data from a broker for a T-Mobile phone for $300. This is not illegal. The food chain for location data is very complicated. In this case, T-Mobile sold the data to data aggregator Zumigo. Zumigo sold it to Microbilt. Microbilt sold it to a bounty hunter. Who […]

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