Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.03.19
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The Value and Ethics of Using Phone Data to Monitor Covid-19 (Wired, Mar 18 2020) Google and Facebook are discussing plans with the White House to share collective data on people’s movements during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. government, tech industry […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.03.12
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud 99% of compromised Microsoft enterprise accounts lack MFA (Sophos, Mar 09 2020) Cybercriminals compromise over a million Microsoft enterprise accounts each month as too few customers use multi-factor authentication. Through apps, not warrants, ‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.03.05
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Security of Health Information (Schneier on Security, Mar 05 2020) “The world is racing to contain the new COVID-19 virus that is spreading around the globe with alarming speed. Right now, pandemic disease experts at the World Health Organization (WHO), […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.02.27
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud FBI recommends passphrases over password complexity (ZDNet, Feb 24 2020) Longer passwords, even consisting of simpler words or constructs, are better than short passwords with special characters. What’s next in making Encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS the Default – Future Releases (Mozilla blog, […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.02.20
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud How Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data on Millions of Americans (VICE, Feb 19 2020) Yodlee, America’s largest financial data broker, says the data it sells it is anonymous. A confidential document obtained by Motherboard shows people could be unmasked […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.02.13
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud FBI: Business Email Compromise Cost Businesses $1.7B in 2019 (Dark Reading, Feb 12 2020) BEC attacks comprised nearly half of cybercrime losses last year, which totaled $3.5 billion overall as Internet-enabled crimes ramped up. How Big Companies Spy on Your […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.02.06
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Avast shutters data-selling subsidiary amid user outrage (Ars Technica, Jan 30 2020) Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek announced late Thursday the end of the data-selling subsidiary, known as Jumpshot. Writing in an open letter, he said that he and the company’s […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.01.30
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate (Schneier, Jan 27 2020) “These efforts are well-intentioned, but facial recognition bans are the wrong way to fight against modern surveillance. Focusing on one particular identification method misconstrues the nature of the surveillance society […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.01.23
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (The New York Times, Jan 18 2020) A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future […]
Identity Mgt & Web Fraud – The Week’s Best News – 2020.01.16
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud Google: Chrome Will Remove Third-Party Cookies and Tracking (Dark Reading, Jan 14 2020) It’s “not about blocking” but removing them altogether, the company said. Apple’s new privacy features have further rattled the location-based ad market (Digiday, Jan 15 2020) People […]