Breach is a new podcast I am hosting with producer Alia Tavakolian of Spoke Media. It’s an investigation into the Yahoo hack, which was the biggest hack ever. You can listen to episode 1 by clicking on the play button here, or by going to Stitcher or iTunes. There’s a [Keep reading]
You probably had a Yahoo account. And you probably know that account was hacked. After all, the firm admitted about a year ago that 1 billion accounts had been compromised. Check that…it was actually 3 billion. Every Yahoo account created since, essentially, the dawn of the Internet. What you [Keep reading]
You probably had a Yahoo account. And you probably know that account was hacked. After all, the firm admitted about a year ago that 1 billion accounts had been compromised. Check that…it was actually 3 billion. Every Yahoo account created since, essentially, the dawn of the Internet. What you [Keep reading]
You are probably fully aware that criminals have been selling your user names, passwords, addressees, credit card numbers, etc., in the Internet’s darkest places for a long time. Still, it’s creepy when you see it happen in real-time. Add to that creepy factor this finding from Israeli security firm Sixgill: [Keep reading]
You like a cute dog photo. You click a link to get NCAA basketball scores. You comment on a friend’s new job. You download an app to navigate a conference, or a family wedding. And suddenly you are dropped into buckets like “a neurotic introvert, a religious extrovert, a fair-minded [Keep reading]
Wasting time recently on a discussion board for rabid sports fans, my eyes stopped on a phrase that shocked me: “endowment effect.” Dropped casually in among the emotional discussion of who’s the best offensive or defensive player was a high-fallutin’ term from economics. I thought it out of place for [Keep reading]
The FCC is issuing fresh warnings about so-called “neighbor spoofing” as the agency plans a fresh push to tamp down illegal robocalls — and scammers continue to perfect their tools of evasion. Neighbor spoofing involves spam calls that arrive appearing to come from a nearby phone number. If your number [Keep reading]
“You’ve been hacked. But there’s hope. Let me explain.” Writing a book is a very long journey. Re-writing a book, 10 years later, is an even longer journey. But that’s where I have arrived, and I invite you dear reader to come along with me. More than a decade ago, [Keep reading]
We’ve heard about the identity theft epidemic for so long that many have become numb to the news, and the large numbers — 50 million stolen credit cards here, 150 million stolen Social Security numbers there. But this is no time for complacency. There were two bits of very bad [Keep reading]
If you receive an unexpected deposit from the IRS into your bank account in the next few weeks, don’t celebrate. You are likely a victim of a nasty, ingenious new form of ID theft designed by criminals to evade updated IRS security protections. In other words, in this cat and [Keep reading]
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