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Preventing Illegal Robocalls, Webcam Spying, Dating App Account Hacking
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for February 18th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Preventing illegal robocalls, should you be scared of your laptop’s webcam, and recent hacks of popular dating apps.
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Hi everyone, welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 cybersecurity and privacy topics from the week. These podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.
I’ll bet you’re like me and whenever I see a phone call from a number I don’t recognize I refuse to answer it due to the amount of robocalls, scams and fraud attempts that I’m always receiving. In a previous podcast we referenced a report from a company called First Orion, that said nearly half of the mobile phone calls received in 2019 will be scams. Well, it’s 2019 and I’m starting to believe that it may even be higher than 50%! It really seems like the problem is getting worse. However, in a new report released from the FCC on the frequency and prevention of illegal robocalls shows that there is some progress being made to prevent these calls and to hold scammers accountable for their actions. In regards to call-blocking services the FCC states that hundreds of these services are now available, many of them for free, and that there has been significant progress made towards caller ID authentication through a new standard being implemented by the major telecom companies called STIR/SHAKEN. Umm…interesting martini reference there guys. Apparently, this standard verifies that caller ID’s are accurate and not spoofed or modified. Caller ID authentication is supposed to be implemented by all major telecom companies in the US by the end of this year. From a enforcement perspective, the FCC notes that they have proposed or imposed fines of around $245 million dollars just in the last two years against people and companies that have been found guilty of illegal robocalling. While all of these efforts seem to be making some progress, will caller ID authentication really drop the number of these robocalls? Time will tell but in the meantime, it’s probably best to get yourself one of the many free robocall and scam call blocking apps that are available. Check out our show notes for a link to many different types of popular apps that are available right now for you to use.
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