Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Facial Recognition Tool That Tracks People Across Social Media Now Available to Hackers: Open-source tool Social Mapper can help white hat hackers keep up with the black hats, but also has the potential to create more of the latter. Futurism, August 9, 2018 Cyber Warning #BlackHat2018: PayPal, Square vulnerabilities impact […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Defense Senior citizens can take charge against identity theft: Criminals often steal personal-identity information because it’s worth money across the internet. Newsday, August 3, 2018 Cyber Warning IoT security warning: Your hacked devices are being used for cyber crime says FBI: Vulnerable devices like routers and webcams are providing an easy […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Amazon face recognition AI falsely identifies 28 members of Congress as criminals: Amazon’s face recognition AI incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots, according to an ACLU blog post on Thursday. Using Amazon’s Rekognition software—the exact same facial recognition system offered to the public—the ACLU conducted the experiment […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Hundreds of thousands of voter records exposed on misconfigured server, researcher says: Yet another misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket has exposed the sensitive information of unsuspecting people. CyberScoop, July 18, 2018 Identity Theft Human Resources Firm ComplyRight Breached: Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Think You’ve Got Nothing to Hide? Think Again — Why Data Privacy Affects Us All: We all hear about privacy, but do we really understand what this means? According to privacy law expert Robert B. Standler, privacy is “the expectation that confidential personal information disclosed in a private place will […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Awareness “Dark Web: Fighting Cybercrime” on Science Channel, July 19, 2018, 5 p.m. EST. IBM Security teams w Atomic Entertainment & Science Channel to help educate people about cybersecurity & go behind the scenes of the fight against cybercrime: It used to be much easier to avoid cyberthreats: If you used […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Tinder finally swipes right on standard cybersecurity practices: Welcome to 2015, Tinder! The Match Group-owned dating app just confirmed that it has updated its security practices, making it harder for hackers to peek into other people’s accounts. FastCompany, June 29, 2018 Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal information Database with […]

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant To Track Your Cellphone: In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that police must obtain a search warrant to access an individual’s cellphone location information. The 5-4 decision imposes new limits on law enforcement’s ability to get […]

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 […]