Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.10.31
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Balls, bats & Baby Shark: MLB authentication process is serious biz (WAPO, Oct 29 2019) At the World Series, authenticators in both dugouts and clubhouses keep a close eye on the action. Cachet Financial Reeling from MyPayrollHR Fraud (Krebs on […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.10.24
Best Phishing Tactic Is to Make You Think You’ve Been Hacked (Infosec. Mag., Oct 21 2019) Study finds email subject lines referencing online security are the most clicked on In a First, FTC Bans Company From Selling ‘Stalkerware’ (VICE, Oct 22 2019) The FTC’s move comes after Motherboard revealed a hacker had repeatedly breached Retina-X […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.10.17
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Wi-Fi Hotspot Tracking – Schneier on Security (Schneier on Security, Oct 15 2019) Free Wi-Fi hotspots can track your location, even if you don’t connect to them. This is because your phone or computer broadcasts a unique MAC address. Student […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.10.10
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising (VICE, Oct 08 2019) This could make people think twice about using a phone number to secure their account at all. 2019 Global Password Security Report (LastPass, Oct 08 […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.10.03
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Government to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants (New York Times, Oct 03 2019) The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin testing on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities. Disinformation campaigns cheap and easy to […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.09.26
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Russian national confesses to biggest bank hack in US history (Ars Technica, Sep 23 2019) In all, defendant stole more than 100 million records stole, prosecutors say. Google Wins EU Fight Against Worldwide ‘Right to be Forgotten’ (SecurityWeek, Sep 24 […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.09.19
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don’t Matter (Troy Hunt, Sep 17 2019) Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don’t matter. Also, allow me […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.09.12
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators (VICE, Sep 06 2019) You gave them your data in exchange for a driver’s license. DMVs are making tens of millions of dollars selling it, documents obtained by Motherboard show. Google’s differential […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.09.05
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Our Face Recognition Nightmare Began Decades Ago. Now It’s Expanding (VICE, Sep 04 2019) Biometric systems used by ICE to round up migrants and separate families didn’t come from nowhere. They’ve been built over decades by both parties. Facial Recognition […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.08.29
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem (WAPO, Aug 27 2019) In our latest privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase. […]