Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.11.15
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Chip Cards Fail to Reduce Credit Card Fraud in the US (Schneier on Security, Nov 15 2018) A new study finds that credit card fraud has not declined since the introduction of chip cards in the US. The majority of […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.11.08
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths (Krebs on Security, Nov 07 2018) “KrebsOnSecurity recently had a chance to interview members of the REACT Task Force, a team of law enforcement officers and prosecutors based in Santa Clara, Calif. that […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.11.01
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud ID Systems Throughout the 50 States (Schneier on Security, Oct 31 2018) Jim Harper at CATO has a good survey of state ID systems in the US…. How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.10.25
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud 10 Fraud Myths: The fraudiest country is…Mauritania! (Sift Science, Oct 23 2018) We took a magnifying glass to 165 billion recent transactions and events among our data set and uncovered 10 surprising insights about how fraud happens. These findings illustrate […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.10.18
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Is this the simple solution to password re-use? (Naked Security – Sophos, Oct 17 2018) …answer that’s been hiding in plain sight for years – set policies that mandate longer and more complicated passwords. How DNA Databases Violate Everyone’s Privacy […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.10.11
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Google+ chose not to go public about bug that exposed users (Graham Cluley, Oct 08 2018) The really big news today is not that Google is shutting down Google Plus (who cares?), but rather that Google knew months ago that […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.10.04
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Suspect forced to unlock iPhone with his face (Naked Security – Sophos, Oct 02 2018) The order so far hasn’t raised Fifth Amendment objections either, your face being something you are, rather than something you know. Voice Phishing Scams Are […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.09.27
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Google to Stop Automatically Logging Users into Chrome (Dark Reading, Sep 27 2018) The decision comes days after security researcher had blasted company for jeopardizing user privacy with browser update. A Small Google Chrome Change Stirs a Big Privacy Controversy […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.09.20
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud FBI: Phishing Attacks Aim to Swap Payroll Information (Dark Reading, Sep 19 2018) Social engineering scams target employees’ payroll credentials so attackers can access and change their bank account data. Beware of Emails Purporting to be from the IRS (Fortinet […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2018.09.13
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity (Krebs on Security, Sep 12 2018) “The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging […]