Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Football app tracks illegal broadcasts using your microphone and GPS: Are you watching an illegal broadcast of a Spanish football game? Are you sure? Naked Security, June 15, 2018 Identity Theft Librarian Sues Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach, Wins $600. Is This the Start of Another #WeThePeople Movement?: In the […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Facebook Bug Sets 14M Users’ Settings to ‘Public’. The default sharing setting was accidentally changed for millions of accounts during a four-day period last month: If you haven’t checked your Facebook privacy settings in a while, now would be a good time. The social media giant recently informed users of […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy From Facebook to Amazon, these are the default privacy settings you should change: Say no to defaults. A clickable guide to fixing the complicated privacy settings from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. The Washington Post, June, 1, 2018 Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private? The past month […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio: Amazon confirmed an Echo owner’s privacy-sensitive allegation on Thursday, after Seattle CBS affiliate KIRO-7 reported that an Echo device in Oregon sent private audio to someone on a user’s contact list without permission. ars technica, May 23, 2018 Mobile Giants: […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Danger Breaches Drive Consumer Stress over Cybersecurity: As major data breaches make headlines, consumers are increasingly worried about cyberattacks, password management, and data security. DarkReading, May 2, 2018 Cyber Update Adobe Acrobat vulnerability can compromise you with just a click. Update now!: A flaw in the popular Acrobat DC document reader […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again: I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In: The Golden State Killer, who terrorized Californians from Sacramento to Orange County over the course of a decade, committed his last known murder in 1986, the same year that DNA profiling was used in a criminal […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft What Is Synthetic Identity Theft?: Identity theft, or identity fraud, once meant crooks were churning out fake credit cards. But as that became easier to detect, a more insidious crime has evolved: the creation of completely new identities. NerdWallet, April 27, 2018 US Child Identity Fraud Victims Lost $2.6bn Last […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Data firm leaks 48 million user profiles it scraped from Facebook, LinkedIn, others> Exclusive: Profile data was scraped without user consent or knowledge to “build a three-dimensional picture” on millions of people. ZDNet, April 18, 2018 Facebook: We’re not the only ones collecting your data across the web: The embattled […]

Individuals at Risk Identity Theft Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself: Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that […]