Is your child a victim of identity theft?
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Equifax names Home Depot infosec lead as new CISO
Home Depot Chief Information Security Officer Jamil Farshchi has been hired for the same position at Equifax, the credit monitoring company announced in a press release on Monday. Farschi was hired in 2015 as Home Depot’s CISO, a new position at the time, months after the home improvement retailer suffered its own data breach of 56 million credit cards. He also previously served as CISO for Time Warner and global vice president for information security at Visa. Equifax suffered a massive data breach in 2017 that exposed the personal data of 145.5 million people. The company’s chief information officer and chief security officer retired a few days after Equifax publicly disclosed the breach in September 2017. The CEO followed suit shortly after. At Equifax, Farschi “will assume company-wide leadership of work already underway to transform the company’s information security program, and collaborate with the industry to share best practices on information security,” the […]
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Turns out Equifax breach was way bigger than initially thought
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On July 29th Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency in the United
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File Your Taxes Before Scammers Do It For You
Today, Jan. 29, is officially the first day of the 2018 tax-filing season, also known as the day that fraudsters start requesting phony tax refunds in the names of identity theft victims. Want to minimize the chances of getting hit by tax refund fraud this year? File your taxes before the bad guys can!
Tax refund fraud affects hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of U.S. citizens annually. Victims usually first learn of the crime after having their returns rejected because scammers beat them to it. Even those who are not required to file a return can be victims of refund fraud, as can those who are not actually due a refund from the IRS. Continue reading File Your Taxes Before Scammers Do It For You
Stolen Credentials on the Dark Web: A Wake Up Call for Organizations Using KBA
Recent news accounts of security researchers discovering a database containing 1.4 billion breached credentials — reportedly, the largest such find on the Dark Web — is yet more evidence that online identity proofing that relies only on KB… Continue reading Stolen Credentials on the Dark Web: A Wake Up Call for Organizations Using KBA
Senators introduce bill to counter bad cybersecurity practices in credit reporting industry
Two Democratic senators introduced a bill Wednesday that would provide new regulatory powers for the Federal Trade Commission so that it can punish companies like Equifax and others in the credit reporting industry for poor cybersecurity practices. The “Data Breach Prevention and Compensation Act” by Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Mark Warner, D-Va., contains plans for the creation of a “Cybersecurity Office” within the FTC to be led by a career supervisor who will be able to enforce financial penalties on rule breakers. This supervisor would need to maintain relations with the credit reporting industry as the FTC proposes future cybersecurity standards and other related regulations. The move comes in the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax in 2017, which caused the private records of more than 145 million Americans to be compromised by hackers. A subsequent investigation into the incident by the FBI showed that an outdated piece […]
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The seven most colossal data breaches of 2017
This year saw a handful of spectacularly bad security fails that resulted in massive sets of compromised data. Here are the most colossal data breaches of 2017.
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Sensitive Data of 123 Million American Households Exposed
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In September this year when Equifax servers were hacked it allowed attackers
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Smashing Security podcast #057: Mikko – live from the sauna – talks Bitcoin security
How to protect yourself from Bitcoin hackers, why you should think twice before giving Amazon the keys to your house, and how a private investigator tried to hack Donald Trump’s tax returns.
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Cyber News Rundown: 2017 Year in Review
As 2017 comes to a close, we’re looking back at the 10 most significant (or simply the most devastating) cybersecurity stories of the year. Read through the list below to see which attacks,…read more
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