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Verizon blames ‘routing’ error for Baltimore 911 outage

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Residents of Baltimore who dialed 911 were unable to reach emergency dispatchers for more than two hours Tuesday evening and Verizon is laying the blame on a call-routing error.

From the Baltimore Sun:

Officials at Verizon — the service provider for the city’s 911 system — said the phone company received an automated alert at 7:48 p.m. reporting that 911 calls were failing. Verizon spokesman John O’Malley said the company eventually determined that emergency calls were mistakenly routed to an empty back-up call center in the city.

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Network World Paul McNamara

TeamViewer denies hack, blames hijacked accounts on password reuse

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A plethora of people with the remote desktop tool TeamViewer have been in an uproar after their machines were remotely hijacked; in some cases over the past month or so, users had their bank or PayPal accounts sucked dry. TeamViewer denied it has been hacked and launched two new security measures.

After experiencing a TeamViewer takeover, IBM security researcher Nick Bradley thinks password reuse may be the problem. Bradley said he was gaming on his PC when he lost control of his mouse and TeamViewer popped up. He killed the app and dashed downstairs to another PC which had TeamViewer.

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Hong Kong leader blames Facebook ‘hack’ for racy pictures

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The hack had been reported to police … was slammed by Next Magazine and Apple Daily, which are routinely critical of his government. Next said Leung would “rather make friends with these large-breasted women instead of making a connection with Hong …
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As AT&T falls behind T-Mobile in streaming, an executive blames net neutrality

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Unlike some of its competitors, like Comcast and T-Mobile, which have released products that some believe violate the FCC’s net neutrality regulations, AT&T was apparently forced to shelve several new products as a result of the new regulations.

Speaking at the Phoenix Center’s annual U.S. Telecoms Symposium earlier this week, AT&T senior vice president Bob Quinn said that, since the FCC reclassified broadband as a utility, the company has “had to shelve a bunch of stuff because we’ve got to wait and see.”

The new legal environment has also restricted AT&T’s ability to develop new services, Quinn said at the event. 

“Since the Open Internet order came out we’ve had weekly calls with the business units and literally 15 lawyers who are all trying to figure out whether that stuff we’ve invested in … would be a violation of the order,” he said, according to a Politico report. 

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Network World Colin Neagle