Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.04.04
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Facebook Demanded User Email Passwords (SecurityWeek, Apr 04 2019) Facebook has been found asking users for their email passwords. A screen form told users that their email address needed to be confirmed in order to update their contact information, and […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.03.28
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Workers Push Back as Companies Gather Fingerprints and Retina Scans (WSJ, Mar 28 2019) Employees are challenging the increased use of fingerprint and facial scans by companies for security purposes and personnel management. Is your e-commerce site being used to […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.03.21
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Why Phone Numbers Stink As Identity Proof (Krebs on Security, Mar 17 2019) “Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they’ve become de facto identities. At […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.03.14
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Judging Facebook’s Privacy Shift (Schneier on Security, Mar 13 2019) “There is ample reason to question Zuckerberg’s pronouncement: The company has made — and broken — many privacy promises over the years. And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.03.07
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Trust, or Lack of It, Is a Key Theme on RSAC Keynote Stage (Dark Reading, Mar 05 2019) Neither machines nor humans might be entirely trustworthy, but the cooperation of the two might be the answer to issues of misinformation, […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.02.28
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud As 5G Technology Expands, So Do Concerns Over Privacy (WSJ, Feb 28 2019) “Because 5G doesn’t penetrate walls very well, you’re going to see a lot more indoor towers,” Steve Bellovin, a professor of computer science at Columbia University who […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.02.21
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Account security – a divided user perception (Elie Bursztein, Feb 18 2019) This post considers the perception clash that exists between what users perceive to be their most valuable accounts (email and social networks) and those they think they should […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.02.14
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud US Air Force Defector Allegedly Helped Iran Hack Americans (Wired, Feb 13 2019) In an astonishing indictment, the DOJ details how Monica Witt allegedly turned on her former counterintelligence colleagues. 31 AGs ask FTC to update Identity Theft Rules (SC […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.02.07
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud More Alleged SIM Swappers Face Justice (Krebs on Security, Feb 06 2019) “Another video posted by Ortiz — to a hijacked, highly sought Instagram account “T” — shows members of this group dumping out $200 bottles of glow-in-the-dark Dom Perignon […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.01.31
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them (TechCrunch, Jan 29 2019) Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of […]