Security researcher Ryan Stevenson reportedly found this week a number of flaws in Comcast’s online customer portal which exposed the partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of around 26 million Xfinity customers. Stevenson added that the flaws were easy to exploit, However, Comcast said that...
It was revealed earlier this week that US telco giant Comcast had reportedly exposed the passwords of customers using Xfinity-provided wireless routers in plaintext online. According to the security researchers who reported the issue, anyone with the customer’s account number and street address number, which...
Earlier this week, a report published by Princeton University researchers identified several popular websites that use intrusive session tracking scripts to log sensitive information such as passwords, credit card details, phone numbers, SSNs, and dates of birth. The researchers also found that some sites record...
The A.B. 375 bill which would restore a number of protections related to broadband privacy is set to be voted upon this Friday. The California Broadband Privacy Bill had previously languished in the Senate Rules Committee due to resistance from big telcos AT&T, Verizon and...
After a pledge to cut back on regulations by President Donald Trump, a rule passed during former president Obama’s term implementing restrictions on how broadband companies may use customer data was scrapped by Republicans in congress. Despite the rule’s dissolution however, other states are finding...