Breach, Epiosde 2, sets the scene at Yahoo when Marissa Meyer took over, and very quickly became the one of the world’s most famous CEOs. But underneath the glamour and bold decisions, Yahoo soon had a massive problem. How did she handle it? Yelling at a New York Times reporter [Keep reading]
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]
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