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FREE DIAL-UP NETWORKING
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PRIMER NOW AVAILABLE
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(BPS) -- Informer Computer Terminals, manufacturers of portable and
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mobile data communications equipment, has just released a new booklet,
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"A Primer in Dial-Up Networking." The book will be sent free of charge to
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consumers who request it.
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"A Primer in Dial-Up Networking" explores dial-up data communications
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concepts and describes the entire line of Informer communications
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products for use with IBM mainframe computers. It is designed to be used
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as a quick reference or as a more complete data communications guide to
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dial-up networking.
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Sections in the 16-page 8.5- X 11-inch guide cover such topics as:
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choosing the right modem, protocols, protocol converters, error
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correction, data security, data transfer and transmission characteristics,
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networks, and more. The book is geared mainly toward
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mainframe-to-micro communications.
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For your free copy, write to: Informer Computer Terminals, Inc., Att: Cyndi
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Green, 12781 Pala Drive, Garden Grove, CA 92641.
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-- TELECOMMUNICATIONS NEWS --
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LONG-DISTANCE FRAUD EXPENSIVE FOR
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PHONE COMPANIES AND PERPETRATORS!
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(BPS) -- One alleged ring of computer "hackers" is finding out just how
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expensive long distance telephone fraud can be. U.S. Sprint announced
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August 28 it has filed three lawsuits, seeking more than $20 million in
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compensation, against a multi-state ring of computer "hackers." The group
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in question has allegedly been involved in the use of illegally-obtained
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authorization codes to steal long-distance telephone service.
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The suits were filed August 27, in U.S. district courts in Los Angeles,
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Seattle, and Kansas City, Mo.
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Long-distance telephone Computer "hackers," such as the unnamed
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individuals involved in the U.S. Sprint suit, use computers and special
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software to randomly identify Sprint long-distance authorization codes.
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These codes, the numbers that some customers dial to gain authorized
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access to the long-distance system, are then used by the "hackers" to make
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long-distance calls that are charged to the accounts of the original
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holders of the authorization numbers.
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Since authorized customers routinely dispute charges for calls they didn't
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make, the company, in this case U.S. Sprint, has to absorb the cost of
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billings for calls made with illegally-obtained authorization codes. Sprint
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officials have blamed at least a portion of the $76 million loss it reported
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for its second quarter to thousands of customer-billing problems.
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