Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.27
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Lemonade Bragged It Uses AI to Detect Fraud. It Didn’t Go Well (VICE, May 26 2021) Lemonade backtracked after suggesting it uses “non-verbal cues” like eye movements to reject claims. Its response raises more questions than answers. USPS Reportedly Uses […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.20
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Apple rejected 215k iOS apps due to privacy last year (Graham Cluley, May 18 2021) Apple is talking up the efforts it makes to police the iOS App Store, revealing that during 2020 it rejected more than 215,000 iPhone apps […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.13
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Hackers Leak Personal Data of Washington DC Police Officers (VICE, May 11 2021) The ransomware gang Babuk released the personal details of several Metropolitan Police Department officers—essentially a full dox—in an attempt to extort the department into paying a ransom […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.06
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Your Old Phone Number Can Be Used to Hack You, Study Finds (VICE, May 06 2021) The majority of old phone numbers are still tied to important online accounts that can be easily taken over by hackers. Google to Automatically […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.29
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You (Wired, Apr 26 2021) Facebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here. Experian’s Credit Freeze Security is Still a Joke (Krebs on Security, […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.22
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses (Wired, Apr 22 2021) A recently discovered vulnerability discloses user email addresses even when they’re set to private. Account protections – A Google Perspective (Elie on Internet Security and Privacy., Apr […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.15
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud LinkedIn 500M profiles, maintains incident was not a breach (SC Media, Apr 09 2021) LinkedIn has become one of the most impersonated brands when it comes to phishing, and having access to such a treasure trove of information can help […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.08
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Are You One of the 533M People Who Got Facebooked? (Krebs on Security, Apr 06 2021) “Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.01
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The war against the virus also fueling a war against fraud (Help Net, Mar 26 2021) TransUnion’s latest analysis of global online fraud trends found that since the COVID-19 pandemic began, fraudsters are increasing their rate of digital schemes against […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.25
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Details of a Computer Banking Scam (Schneier on Security, Mar 22 2021) “This is a longish video that describes a profitable computer banking scam that’s run out of call centers in places like India. There’s a lot of fluff about […]