Mobile security updates are a mess. The FCC and FTC want to know why.

The FCC and FTC are investigating the mobile industry’s practices for shipping updates to patch security vulnerabilities in mobile devices. Continue reading Mobile security updates are a mess. The FCC and FTC want to know why.

Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry’s Fault, Says Outgoing FTC Commissioner

Julie Brill says consumers are ‘taking matters into their own hands’ after the ad industry crippled the ill-fated Do Not Track program. Continue reading Rise of Ad Blocking Is the Ad Industry’s Fault, Says Outgoing FTC Commissioner

Seagate Phish Exposes All Employee W-2’s

Email scam artists last week tricked an employee at data storage giant Seagate Technology into giving away 2015 W-2 tax documents on all current and past employees, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. W-2 forms contain employee Social Security numbers, salaries and other personal data, and are highly prized by thieves involved in filing phony tax refund requests with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the states. Continue reading Seagate Phish Exposes All Employee W-2’s

IRS: 390K More Victims of IRS.Gov Weakness

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today sharply revised previous estimates on the number of citizens that were hit by tax refund fraud since 2014 thanks to a security weakness in the IRS’s own Web site. According to the IRS, at least 724,000 citizens were victims of refund fraud after crooks figured out how to abuse a (now defunct) IRS Web site feature called “Get Transcript” to steal victim’s prior tax da Continue reading IRS: 390K More Victims of IRS.Gov Weakness