Credit bureau Equifax announced late Thursday that computer criminals stole data on 143 million consumers earlier this year. The hackers took Social Security numbers and other data. Consumers should immediately check to see if they are impacted at a special website set up for the incident: www.equifaxsecurity2017.com Hackers entered through a [Keep reading]
In this story Dragonfly group apparently managed to take screen grabs of command and control machines Well-known group said to be Russian by U.S. government Employees fell for phishing It started off as a fake invitation to a New Year’s Eve party, emailed to energy section employees. It ended with [Keep reading]
In this story ‘Ending’ DACA is just political theater, but it’s really cruel to the people who suffer the impacts People who entered America as children have committed no crime; there is no justification for calling them ‘illegals’ Proprietorial discretion is a long-standing element of US justice. And if you’ve [Keep reading]
Con men always need a dance partner. I’ve spent 25 years writing about scams, and I’ve interviewed 1,000s of victims. I’ve talked to 90-somethings who are sure a woman (or man) in Nigeria loves them and just needs money for a flight home. To people who are sure that [Keep reading]
For years, security researchers and consumers have been fixated on concerns around hacking cars. Maybe they should worry about ship hacking instead. Several recent collisions involving U.S. Naval vessels have sparked speculation that someone or something is interfering with the ships’ ability to steer clear of other vessels in busy [Keep reading]
In all the noise of this week’s events, it would be easy to miss some dramatic news out of Kiev today. So I’ll amplify it here. A Ukrainian hacker who wrote code that might have helped hack the U.S. election — and other political events around the world — has [Keep reading]
If you don’t think identity theft can cost you, just ask Lucky Whitehead. The FORMER Dallas Cowboys player lost his job recently because someone else knew his Social Security number. Whitehead was fingered for a shoplifting crime recently in Prince George’s County, Virginia, not far from Washington D.C. Police said [Keep reading]
A California mom is suing Disney and some of its software partners for allegedly collecting personal information about her kids through mobile phone game apps. I was on the TODAY show this week talking about it; you can click the image above to see the segment. There’s a novel legal [Keep reading]
Everything you know about passwords is wrong. But then, you probably knew that. I’ve been harping on the various exercises in futility that is password setting for some time. Most recently, I talked about password patterns — how we all use them, and how they make life easy for would-be [Keep reading]
If you use retail store gift cards, you should know: They’re not safe. Criminals are remotely draining their value, and unlike credit cards, consumers have no fraud liability protections. If your retail gift card is hacked, you are screwed — you have no rights to get the money back. [Keep reading]
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