Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.06.13

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Apple Flexes Its Privacy Muscles (Securosis Blog, Jun 12 2019) Regardless of motivations – whether it be altruism, the personal principles of Apple executives, or simply shrewd business strategy – Apple’s stance on privacy is historic and unique in the […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.06.06

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Sign In With Apple’ Protects You in Ways Google and Facebook Don’t (Wired, Jun 04 2019) Apple’s new single-sign-on scheme has benefits that its competitors seem unlikely to match. Watchdog says FBI has access to about 640M photographs (WTOP, Jun […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.05.30

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense? (Krebs on Security, May 29 2019) “Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.05.23

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Fingerprinting iPhones (Schneier on Security, May 22 2019) This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. Amazon Shareholders Support Selling Face Recognition Tech […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.05.16

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometers away (MIT Tech Review, May 13 2019) Developed in China, the lidar-based system can cut through city smog to resolve human-sized features at vast distances. San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Use […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.05.09

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Google Prepares to Launch New Privacy Tools to Limit Cookies (WSJ, May 07 2019) Google is set to unveil a new way to limit the use of browser-tracking cookies, a move that could strengthen the search giant’s advertising dominance and […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.05.02

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households (vpnMentor, Apr 30 2019) vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million American households. Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected … Microsoft’s security chief explains why the […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.04.25

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Facial recognition fail allows laptop access (Graham Cluley, Apr 24 2019) “So, I was wondering why the battery on my laptop was running down every time I left it at home.Turns out the kids have been using my election leaflets […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.04.18

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Feeling Safe in the Surveillance State (The New York Times, Apr 13 2019) In China, where facial recognition cameras are celebrated as a national triumph, many citizens convince themselves that everywhere else is filled with danger. ‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers […]

Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.04.11

A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud How Banksy Authenticates His Work (RepRage, Apr 11 2019) That torn-in-half banknote though? Never mind signatures, embossing or wax seals. The Di Faced Tenner is doing all the authentication heavy lifting here. The tear is what uniquely separates the private […]