Verizon and AT&T will stop selling your phone’s location to data brokers

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | skaman306) Verizon and AT&T have promised to stop selling their mobile customers’ location information to third-party data brokers following a security problem that leaked the real-time location of US cell phone users. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) recently urged all four major carriers to stop the practice, and today he published […]

Robinhood is going after established brokers with a brand new feature

Robinhood Robinhood, the Palo Alto brokerage known for offering commission-free stock trading, is letting folks transfer stock from their other brokerage accounts. The company has said it will roll-out new features to meet the need of more sophisticated stock traders.  Robinhood, the zero-commission brokerage, is making good on its promise to deliver more features to meet the […]

Mortgage brokers: Expert explains if you should pay for advice or apply direct

With all the recent news about the possibility of an interest rate rise in the near future, whether you’re thinking about moving home or staying put but remortgaging, the current raft of competitively priced mortgage rates means that, for many people, now is the time to start thinking about how to secure probably their biggest […]

Shadow Brokers threatens to expose NSA hacker’s covert operations against China

Published time: 28 Jun, 2017 19:42 The Shadow Brokers has threatened to name and shame a former NSA Equation Group member “writing ugly tweets” about the hacking group. The hacking group levied an attack against a Twitter user it calls “doctor,” whom it accuses of tweeting unjustified criticism. Information about the identity of the “doctor” […]

New Shadow Brokers 0-day subscription forces high-risk gamble on whitehats

Enlarge / Gambling. (credit: Jamie Adams) The mysterious group that over the past nine months has leaked millions of dollars’ worth of advanced hacking tools developed by the National Security Agency said Tuesday it will release a new batch of tools to individuals who pay a $ 21,000 subscription fee. The plans, announced in a […]

Shadow Brokers offer new secrets to ‘high rollers & govts’ after helping create WannaCry

The Shadow Brokers, a group that is thought to have stolen classified documents from the NSA that have been used to write the WannaCry malware, have offered to publish more of their document trove in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. In a message posted in deliberately garbled English, the collective said that they would […]

Fearing Shadow Brokers leak, NSA reported critical flaw to Microsoft

Enlarge / An aerial view of the NSA. (credit: nsa.gov) After learning that one of its most prized hacking tools was stolen by a mysterious group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, National Security Agency officials warned Microsoft of the critical Windows vulnerability the tool exploited, according to a report published Tuesday by The Washington Post. […]

‘Shadow Brokers’ threaten to release more hacking tools in June

An exploit that the “WannaCry” malware used to encrypt computers worldwide first appeared in a leak from “The Shadow Brokers,” a group that claims to have stolen a number of tools from the NSA. Now the Shadow Brokers are back with a new blog post threatening more leaks. Through an intentionally sloppy writing style, the […]

Uber hires logistics brokers to continue push into trucking

(Reuters) – Uber hired the team behind a Chicago transportation brokerage last fall as part of an effort to break into the long-haul trucking industry. All five employees from 4Front Logistics joined Uber in November, said an Uber spokeswoman, who added that Uber did not pay anything for the company. Brokerages such as 4Front Logistics […]