Individuals at Risk Identity Theft Why didn’t Equifax protect your data? Because corporations have all the power: When the credit-reporting agency Equifax announced this month that hackers had accessed the accounts of 143 million of its customers — over 40 percent of the population of the United States — it was another example of how […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft 600,000 Alaskan voters’ data left exposed: Kromtech Security Center researchers discovered an unsecured U.S. voter database was exposed to the public internet due to a misconfiguration of CouchDB instance. SC Magazine, September 15, 2017 Two Equifax executives will retire following massive data breach: A week after Equifax disclosed it suffered […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft Equifax Hack Exposes Regulatory Gaps, Leaving Consumers Vulnerable: Despite the wealth of sensitive information in their databases, credit bureaus don’t face the same kind of scrutiny and oversight that banks do. The New York Times, September 8, 2017 Here are all the ways the Equifax data breach is worse than […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft 700 Million-Plus Email Addresses Leaked by Spam Operation: A sloppy spamming operation has exposed on a server in the Netherlands gigabytes of files that include 711 million email addressees and some associated account passwords. BankInfoSecurity, August 31, 2017 Cyber Privacy Hackers are selling millions of Instagram celeb accounts on web. […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft Why It’s Still A Bad Idea to Post or Trash Your Airline Boarding Pass: One reason may be that the advice remains timely and relevant: A talk recently given at a Czech security conference advances that research and offers several reminders of how being careless with your boarding pass could […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Cars Suck Up Data About You. Where Does It All Go?: Automakers, local governments, retailers, insurers and tech companies are looking to leverage the data that cars generate. New York Times, July 27, 2017 Cyber Warning New Android malware records calls, intercepts texts, and steals credit card info: A new […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Update Google Patches 10 Critical Bugs in August Android Security Bulletin: Google patched 10 critical remote code execution bugs in its August Android Security Bulletin issued Monday. ThreatPost, August 8, 2017 Mozilla Fixes 29 Vulnerabilities in Firefox, Makes Flash Click-To-Activate: Mozilla fixed three critical vulnerabilities when it released Firefox 55 on […]

  Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Google wants to track you in real life – privacy group says, ‘No way!’: There’s a long-term marketing bugaboo that Google has plans to fix: how to convince its clients that their ad dollars are turning into sweet payola. NakedSecurity, August 4, 2017 Cyber Defense Mozilla sets up private, […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Securely Wipe Your Computer: Many people crossing the U.S. border are concerned about the amount of power that the government has asserted to search and examine travelers’ possessions, including searching through or copying contents of digital devices, like photos, emails, and browsing history. […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy White House releases sensitive personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information: The White House on Thursday made public a trove of emails it received from voters offering comment on its Election Integrity Commission. The commission drew widespread criticism when it emerged into public view by asking for […]