InfoSec News Nuggets 9/27/2019

Microsoft challenges ‘sneak and peek’ warrant that requests data from one of its big corporate customers Microsoft said on Wednesday it was challenging a federal judge’s order that prevents the software maker from informing one of its large corporate customers that the U.S. government has issued a warrant for the customer’s data. “We have challenged that order in the lower court, and we will pursue an appeal in the appellate court if necessary,” said Dev…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 9/19/2019

Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day This is unlikely to surprise anybody who owns a phone: according to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of this year were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls. That puts the approximate volume of sludge coming into people’s phones at a mind-boggling 200 million unwanted calls per day. The TNS 2019 Robocall Investigation Report comes from Transaction…
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