Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.01.24
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Bomb Threat, Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com (Krebs on Security, Jan 22 2019) “Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam and a bomb threat hoax […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.01.17
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The 773 Million Record “Collection #1” Data Breach (Troy Hunt, Jan 16 2019) Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I’ve called "Collection #1". Most of them won’t […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.01.10
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone (Motherboard, Jan 08 2019) T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2019.01.03
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Relied on BGP Hijacking (Schneier on Security, Dec 28 2018) This is a really interesting story of an ad fraud scheme that relied on hijacking the Border Gateway Protocol: Members of 3ve (pronounced “eve”) used their […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.12.27
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The bleak picture of 2FA adoption in the wild (Elie Bursztein, Dec 21 2018) This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.12.20
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Facebook Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (The New York Times, Dec 19 2018) Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed. Extortion Email Causes […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.12.13
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud New Australian Backdoor Law (Schneier on Security, Dec 12 2018) “Last week, Australia passed a law giving the government the ability to demand backdoors in computers and communications systems. Details are still to be defined, but it’s really bad.” Report: […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.12.06
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Takedown of the “3ve” ad fraud operation (Google Online Security Blog, Nov 27 2018) The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced criminal charges associated with this fraud operation. This takedown marks a major milestone in […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.11.29
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Black Mirror episode with the social ratings? It’s live in China. (Sophos, Nov 26 2018) Not picking up after your dog will cost you 10 points, for example, in China’s Black Mirror-esque plan to socially score citizens. Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.11.22
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud USPS Site Exposed Data on 60 Million Users (Krebs on Security, Nov 21 2018) “U.S. Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other […]