Tag: Social Security
ADT detects cybersecurity incident
April 21, 2026SSN Staff
BOCA RATON, Fla.—ADT disclosed that it detected and contained a cybersecurity incident on April 20 involving unauthorized access to a limited set of customer and prospective customer data, the company said in a media statement.
According to ADT, its internal cybersecurity systems identified the intrusion quickly, triggering response protocols that terminated the breach, initiated a forensic investigation with third-party cybersecurity experts, and notified law enforcement.
The company...
Partisan bluster and the threat to centrals
December 9, 2011Rich Miller
How could the alarm industry have gotten caught up in the partisan bickering over extending the Social Security payroll tax cut? It's a long story, but here's the quick pitch:
A bill proposed in February by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.—the Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011— contained provisions that threatened the alarm industry, namely an FCC auction of bands of spectrum used by centrals. The revenue would help offset the reallocation of the “D-Block” of spectrum in the...