Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.08.22
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Forced Password Reset? Check Your Assumptions (Krebs on Security, Aug 21 2019) “Almost weekly now I hear from an indignant reader who suspects a data breach at a Web site they frequent that has just asked the reader to reset […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.08.15
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Biometrics Flaws Uncovered To Bypass Apple FaceID (Threatpost, Aug 15 2019) Researchers on Wednesday during Black Hat USA 2019 demonstrated an attack that allowed them to bypass a victim’s FaceID and log into their phone simply by putting a pair […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.08.08
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The Risk of Weak Online Banking Passwords (Krebs on Security, Aug 05 2019) “If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.08.01
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud How the West Got China’s Social Credit System Wrong (Wired, Jul 29 2019) It occupies a spot next to ‘Black Mirror’ and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.07.25
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Facebook Privacy Overhaul Following Fine (Infosecurity Magazine, Jul 25 2019) In a blog post on Wednesday, general counsel Colin Stretch outlined the steps Facebook is taking to build a security and privacy-by-design culture “on a different scale than anything we’ve […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.07.18
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The Window to Rein In Facial Recognition Is Closing (Wired, Jul 10 2019) As Congress continues to punt on facial recognition, advocacy groups have redoubled their efforts. Dust Identity secures $10M Series A to identify objects with diamond dust (TechCrunch, […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.07.11
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Your Pa$$word doesn’t matter (Alex Weinert – Microsoft, Jul 10 2019) “Every week I have at least one conversation with a security decision maker explaining why a lot of the hyperbole about passwords – “never use a password that has […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.07.04
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever (Ars, Jul 03 2019) The recordings, and their transcripts, never expire automatically. A Second U.S. City Has Banned Facial Recognition (VICE, Jun 27 2019) Somerville, which neighbors Cambridge, Massachusetts, just joined […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.06.27
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud NSA Improperly Collected U.S. Phone Records a Second Time (WSJ, Jun 26 2019) The National Security Agency collected data about calls and texts it wasn’t authorized to obtain last year in a second such incident, renewing concerns about its phone […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.06.20
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Collections Firm Behind LabCorp, Quest Breaches Files for Bankruptcy (Krebs, Jun 19 2019) “A medical billing firm responsible for a recent eight-month data breach that exposed the personal information on nearly 20 million Americans has filed for bankruptcy, citing “enormous […]