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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

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I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new lines of credit for things like mobile phones on people who have already frozen their credit files with the big-three credit bureaus. Here’s a look at what may be going on, and how you can protect yourself. Continue reading Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.→

Former SunTrust employee stole data on 1.5 million clients

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US commercial bank SunTrust has announced on Friday that they’ve fallen victim to insider threat, and that customer records of some 1.5 million of its customers had been extracted from its systems. What is known so far and has been shared with in… Continue reading Former SunTrust employee stole data on 1.5 million clients→

Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #78

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Palo Alto Networks acquired Evident.IO for $300M, Experian acquires ClearScore for $384M, CyberArk acquires Vaultive for undisclosed, Netsparker raised $40M, and more on this episode on Business Security Weekly! Full Show NotesVisit http://securityweek… Continue reading Tracking Security Innovation – Business Security Weekly #78→

Checked Your Credit Since the Equifax Hack?

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A recent consumer survey suggests that half of all Americans still haven’t checked their credit report since the Equifax breach last year exposed the Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other personal information on nearly 150 million people. If you’re in that fifty percent, please make an effort to remedy that soon.

Credit reports from the three major bureaus — Equifax, Experian and Trans Union — can be obtained online for free at annualcreditreport.com — the only Web site mandated by Congress to serve each American a free credit report every year. Continue reading Checked Your Credit Since the Equifax Hack?→

Another cloud leak shows AWS can only do so much to protect data

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It’s getting to the point where if you blink, you might miss another story about the accidental exposure of sensitive data stored in a public cloud instance. Case in point: cybersecurity firm UpGuard recently found 36GB of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and consumer credit reporting agency Experian. The data, which was stored by data analytics firm Alteryx, was inadvertently exposed on a Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket. Experian has called the incident — which affects 123 million U.S. households — “an Alteryx issue,” even as the credit monitoring firm’s customers were directly impacted. UpGuard researcher Chris Vickery told CyberScoop that regardless of what organization is storing data, third-party vendor risk should be a point of concern for all involved. “Third-party vendor risk is a problem for both parties,” Vickery said. “Look at it this way: If you store your valuables in a bank vault, and the bank forgets to […]

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Please don’t buy this: identity theft protection services

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Identity theft protection services promise to have your back against cybercriminals looking to steal your data. But they don’t actually stop them from taking your identity. Are they worth it, then? We say no.
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