Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.18
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Twitter Updates 2FA Use of Multiple Security Keys (Infosecurity Magazine, Mar 16 2021) Users will soon be able to use security keys as sole authentication method Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has a Silver Lining (Wired, Mar 12 2021) The streaming service […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.11
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Verkada Workers Had Extensive Access to Private Customer Cameras (Bloomberg, Mar 10 2021) More than 100 employees at security camera startup Verkada Inc. could peer through the cameras of its thousands of customers, including global corporations, schools and police departments, […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.04
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates (Krebs on Security, Feb 25 2021) “The U.S. Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.25
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Brussels Okays EU-UK Personal Data Flows (SecurityWeek, Feb 19 2021) The European Commission lifted the threat of crucial data flows between Europe and Britain being blocked in a move that would have crippled business activity as it said Friday that […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.18
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Virginia is about to get a major CA-style data privacy law (Ars Technica, Feb 11 2021) Virginia’s the first on deck since California’s CCPA in 2018, but more are coming. U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.11
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Breached H20 plant employees used same TeamViewer pw and no f/w (Ars, Feb 10 2021) Shortcomings illustrate the lack of security rigor in critical infrastructure environments. Authorities bust SIM-swap ring they say took millions from the rich and famous (Ars […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.04
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Barclays: 2020 the Highest Year on Record for Scams (Infosecurity Magazine, Feb 02 2021) Over half of Brits are too embarrassed to report falling victim to scams U.K. Arrest in ‘SMS Bandits’ Phishing Service (Krebs on Security, Feb 01 2021) […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.28
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Firefox Cracks Down on Supercookies to Improve User Privacy (SecurityWeek, Jan 26 2021) Mozilla this week announced further improvements to user privacy in Firefox, through the isolation of network connections and caches, thus essentially cracking down on supercookies. Military intelligence […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.21
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Technologists Use Facial Recognition on Parler Videos (VICE, Jan 20 2021) It demonstrates the democratization of facial recognition, but comes littered with ethical issues. Telegram-Based Automated Scam Service Helps Fraudsters Make Millions (SecurityWeek, Jan 15 2021) More than 40 scammer […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.14
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud SolarWinds attackers suspected in Microsoft authN compromise (SC Media, Jan 12 2021) Mimecast issued a new certificate and is urging affected customers to delete the old one after Microsoft warned of a compromise. The FBI Is Using Baked Alaska’s Livestream […]