Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.08.06
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud How the NSA Says You Can Limit Location Data Exposure (VICE, Aug 04 2020) The mitigations are designed for government officials, but the advice itself can be useful for many more people. Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.07.30
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Business ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures (Krebs on Security, Jul 27 2020) “When a business owner wants to open a new line of credit, creditors typically check with Dun & Bradstreet to gauge the business’s history and trustworthiness. In […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.07.23
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Chinese hackers stole “hundreds of millions of dollars” of secrets (Ars, Jul 21 2020) DOJ alleges the hackers started work in 2009, hit military contractors. Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub Collecting Fingerprints From Facebook, Hacking Smartwatches And Fighting […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.07.16
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts (VICE, Jul 16 2020) After a wave of account takeovers, screenshots of an internal Twitter user administration tool are being shared in the hacking underground. Walmart Sued Under CCPA After Data […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.07.09
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud 15B credentials available on dark web; average price below $16 (SC Media, Jul 08 2020) There are more than 15 billion stolen account credentials being sold or even shared for free on the dark web, with individual entries selling for […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.07.02
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud California’s CCPA Gets Teeth Today (Infosecurity Magazine, Jul 01 2020) California is enforcing its consumer privacy protection law after a six-month grace period Man Convicted of Stealing High Tech Trade Secrets for China (SecurityWeek, Jun 28 2020) A federal judge […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.06.25
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It For You (Krebs on Security, Jun 19 2020) “Hundreds of popular websites now offer some form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help users safeguard access to accounts when their password is breached […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.06.18
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Massive spying on users of Chrome shows new security weakness (Reuters, Jun 18 2020) A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.06.11
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Amazon Won’t Let Police Use Its Facial-Recognition Tech for One Year (Wired, Jun 10 2020) Amid nationwide protests over police brutality, the company is stopping law enforcement from using its most controversial product. Apple Releases Open Source Password Manager Resources […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.06.04
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Twitter getting better at detecting fraudulent accounts (SC Media, Jun 03 2020) Twitter this week said that it removed an account that pretended to be Antifa — the anti-fascist organization President Trump has claimed is an instigator of ongoing protests […]