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It was a big year, and before kicking off 2023, Up To Speed host Jennifer Marin recapped all the ways Verizon Business moved the world forward this year.

Find a few moments to reflect, recharge and celebrate you – and then join us on Up To Speed for our 2023 Kickoff with Hans Vestberg and our leadership team on Tuesday, January 3, at 11 AM ET/8 AM PT.

2022 Verizon Business Recap

During small business, or “SMB” days, businesses received complimentary tech evaluations by Verizon Business experts to digitize and scale their efforts. One example was Ohio-based Eden, Inc., which provides solutions to people facing housing insecurities in Cleveland. Additionally, business owners were able to grow through Verizon Small Business Digital Ready – a free learning portal that helps take their financial goals to new heights.

Verizon Business premiered BlueJeans Studio to empower the creator economy, offering an all-in-one event production and live streaming platform. Plus, Mobile Edge Computing continued to scale, with Verizon and AWS expanding to 30% more metro area locations with MEC. Verizon came together with Bloomberg Media, Zixi and AWS to test how 5G and edge compute can transform the future of broadcast media. Not to mention, Verizon’s 5G partnership with Audi of America marked Verizon’s first agreement with a global premium automaker for 5G-enabled automobiles.

Our Up To Speed residency took us around the country, including our Boston Hub – complete with a fashion show, courtesy of one of our small business customers. We also went across the pond to check out the London 5G Lab and our EMEA and APAC colleagues who serve Verizon Business customers globally. While there, Verizon Business announced a stadium and venue strategy, deploying WiFi solutions at Manchester United Football Club’s Old Trafford Stadium. Verizon Business even made its way to the Indianapolis 500, where one of our ‘fastest’ customers, the Penske Corporation, showed us how Verizon connectivity plays a crucial role in the largest single-day sporting event.

Verizon Business continued to bolster its efforts with cybersecurity. Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report highlighted an exceptional…

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Lookout Extends Partnership With Verizon to Bring Data-Centric Cloud Security to Business Customers

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The Lookout Cloud Security Platform enables organizations to safeguard data across the web, cloud and private apps; reduces complexity, costs and management overhead

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Lookout, Inc., a leading provider of endpoint and cloud security solutions, today announced the expansion of its partnership with Verizon to deliver the Lookout Cloud Security Platform to Verizon business customers. The Lookout Cloud Security Platform helps safeguard an organizations’ data, identify and mitigate threats and facilitates secure access to the web, private apps and cloud services (SaaS) deployed in a multi-cloud environment.

The Lookout Cloud Security Platform Safeguards Data Everywhere It Goes

While cloud connectivity has boosted productivity and collaboration, it has also amplified security gaps as customers continue to use on-premises, appliance-based security solutions. To prevent data leakage and cover security gaps in this work-from-anywhere environment, organizations need a unified cloud-delivered platform that protects users, devices, access and data across all apps and devices from any modern day cyber threats. The Lookout Cloud Security Platform delivers SSE solution combines Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and Secure Web Gateway (SWG) natively in a single platform, significantly reducing the complexity, costs and number of security vendors and point solutions an IT department has to manage. It also provides the agility and scalability to keep pace with evolving, increasingly sophisticated threats.

According to Gartner®, “By 2025, 80% of organizations seeking to procure SSE-related security services will purchase a consolidated SSE solution rather than stand-alone CASB, SSE, and ZTNA offerings, up from 15% in 2021.” Earlier this year, Gartner released its 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge in which Lookout has been recognized in the Visionary quadrant.1 The companion 2022 Gartner Critical Capabilities for SSE report ranked Lookout in the top three for all vendors across four predefined Use Cases.2

More Than 1.9 Million Licenses and Counting

Verizon and Lookout have been providing…

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Hacker steals Verizon employee database after tricking worker into granting remote access

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A database of contact information for hundreds of Verizon employees is in the hands of cybercriminals, after a member of staff was duped into granting a hacker access to their work PC.

The revelation of a data breach comes from security journalist Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai of Vice, who describes how an anonymous hacker contacted him earlier this month to brag about what they had achieved:

“These employees are idiots and will allow you to connect to their PC under the guise that you are from internal support,” the hacker told Franceschi-Bicchierai in an online chat.

The compromised data included the full name, email address, corporate ID number, and phone number of hundreds of Verizon staff members.  Although Franceschi-Bicchierai was unable to confirm that all of the information was up-to-date, he was able to verify the legitimacy of some of the data by calling phone numbers that had been exposed, and asking individuals who answered to confirm their names and email address.

According to the hacker, having tricked a Verizon employee into granting them access to their corporate computer, they were then able to access an internal company tool to retrieve employee information, and scraped the database with a script.

In an extortion email to Verizon, the hacker claims to have requested a $250,000 reward for their efforts, threatening to leak the employee database online:

Please feel free to respond with an offer not to leak you’re [sic] entire employee database

Verizon confirmed to Vice that it had been contacted by the hacker, but downplayed the significance of the breach:

“A fraudster recently contacted us threatening to release readily available employee directory information in exchange for payment from Verizon. We do not believe the fraudster has any sensitive information and we do not plan to engage with the individual further. As always, we take the security of Verizon data very seriously and we have strong measures in place to protect our people and systems.”

It’s accurate that the breach would have been worse if it had included more sensitive information.  For instance, banking details, social security numbers, passwords, and the like would have potentially made the breach…

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Hacker Stole Verizon Employee Data, Holds It For $250,000 Ransom

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Verizon has suffered a data breach. A hacker recently accessed the company’s employee database and stole personally identifiable information about hundreds of its employees. The stolen information includes the full name, phone number, email address, and corporate ID numbers.

According to a Motherboard report, the hacker got access to the Verizon database by tricking an employee to grant them remote access to their corporate computer. They posed as internal support and convinced the victim through social engineering. Once the hacker had access to the database, they launched a script to copy the information.

“These employees are idiots,” the hacker told Motherboard in an online chat. They shared the stolen data, perhaps part of it, with the publication. The report suggests the information is accurate but unclear how up to date. The publication called some of the phone numbers and four people confirmed their full names and email addresses. They also confirmed that they work at Verizon.

Additionally, one more confirmed the name and email address but said they no longer work at the company. They did in the past, though. A dozen other returned voicemails with accurate names, which suggests the stolen data is legitimate.

Verizon is downplaying the data breach

According to the new report, the hacker has already contacted Verizon. They are seeking a ransom of $250,000 in exchange for not leaking the stolen data. “Please feel free to respond with an offer not to leak your entire employee database,” the hacker said in an sent to the wireless giant. A Verizon spokesperson also confirmed the contact.

“A fraudster recently contacted us threatening to release readily available employee directory information in exchange for payment from Verizon,” the company said. However, it is downplaying the data breach. In an emailed statement to the publication, Verizon said it does not believe the stolen data contains “any sensitive information.”

The carrier does not plan to further engage with the hacker. “As always, we take the security of Verizon data very seriously and we have strong measures in place to protect our people and systems.” the company added.

While the stolen data may not…

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