Experian is a multinational data analytics and consumer credit reporting company headquartered in Dublin,Ireland. Experian collects and aggregates information on over 1 billion people and businesses including 235 million individual U.S. consumers and more than 25 million U.S. businesses. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Experian is a partner in USPS address validation. It is one of the "Big Three" credit-reporting agencies,alongside TransUnion and Equifax.
Uniden Holdings Corporation is a Japanese company in the wireless communication industry.
VTech Innovation,L.P.,doing business as Advanced American Telephones,is a telephone manufacturing company.
Philips Consumer Communications,L.P. was a $2.5 billion joint venture of Lucent Technologies and Royal Philips Electronics formed on October 7,1997. Philips owned 60% of the joint venture,with Lucent owning the other 40%. PCC was a global venture,with branches in more than 100 countries,including the US,Latin America,Asia-Pacific and Europe. Analysts predicted PCC would become one of the major players in the consumer communications business.
The Internet has a long history of turbulent relations,major maliciously designed disruptions,and other conflicts. This is a list of known and documented Internet,Usenet,virtual community and World Wide Web related conflicts,and of conflicts that touch on both offline and online worlds with possibly wider reaching implications.
Snom Technology GmbH is a German company which manufactures Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones,based on the IETF standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Snom's products are targeted at the small- to medium-sized business sector,home offices,Internet service providers,carriers,and original equipment manufacturers. The company,founded in 1996 and headquartered in Berlin,is a wholly owned subsidiary of VTech Holdings Limited,since 2016.
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card,such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account,which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is the data security standard created to help financial institutions process card payments securely and reduce card fraud.
CommScope Holding Company,Inc. is an American network infrastructure provider based in Hickory,North Carolina. CommScope employs over 30,000 employees. The company joined the Nasdaq stock exchange on October 25,2013.
Gigaset AG,formerly known as Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices,is a German multinational corporation based in Bocholt,Germany. More active in the area of communications technology,it manufactures DECT telephones.
DSP Group,Inc. was an American company that manufactured chipsets for VoIP,multimedia,and digital cordless applications. Founded in 1987 with headquarters in San Jose,California,DSP Group employed over 400 people at three US sites and offices in Germany,Scotland,Israel,India,Hong Kong and Japan until it was acquired by Synaptics.
Cellebrite DI Ltd. is an Israeli digital intelligence company that provides tools for federal,state,and local law enforcement as well as enterprise companies and service providers to collect,review,analyze and manage digital data. On April 8,2021,Cellebrite announced plans to go public via a merger with a blank-check firm,valuing the company at approximately $2.4 billion. Their flagship product series is the Cellebrite UFED.
HackingTeam was a Milan-based information technology company that sold offensive intrusion and surveillance capabilities to governments,law enforcement agencies and corporations. Its "Remote Control Systems" enable governments and corporations to monitor the communications of internet users,decipher their encrypted files and emails,record Skype and other Voice over IP communications,and remotely activate microphones and camera on target computers. The company has been criticized for providing these capabilities to governments with poor human rights records,though HackingTeam states that they have the ability to disable their software if it is used unethically. The Italian government has restricted their licence to do business with countries outside Europe.
Have I Been Pwned? is a website that allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches. The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts,and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for Internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy. Have I Been Pwned? was created by security expert Troy Hunt on 4 December 2013.
Troy Adam Hunt is an Australian web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He created and operates Have I Been Pwned?,a data breach search website that allows users to see if their personal information has been compromised. He has also authored several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight,and regularly presents keynotes and workshops on security topics. He created ASafaWeb,a tool that formerly performed automated security analysis on ASP.NET websites.
Connected toys are internet-enabled devices with Wi-Fi,Bluetooth,or other capabilities built in. These toys,which may or may not be smart toys,provide a more personalized play experience for children through embedded software that can offer app integration,speech and/or image recognition,RFID functionality,and web searching functions. A connected toy usually collects information about the users either voluntarily or involuntarily,which raises concerns on the topic of privacy. The data collected by the connected toys are usually stored in a database,where companies that produce connected toys can use the data for their own purposes,provided they do so in line with the protections outlined in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
CloudPets was an Internet-connected soft toy manufactured by now defunct Spiral Toys that was the subject of numerous security vulnerabilities in February 2017. The plush teddy bear-style toys used Bluetooth to connect to a parent's smartphone to allow distant family members to send voice messages to the toy,and allow children to send voice messages back.
Stalkerware is monitoring software or spyware that is used for cyberstalking. The term was coined when people started to widely use commercial spyware to spy on their spouses or intimate partners. Stalkerware has been criticized because of its use by abusers,stalkers,and employers.
ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker group that is believed to have formed in 2020 and is said to have been involved in numerous data breaches. The stolen information is often sold on the dark web.
