Collaborate Disseminate
Technology brings with it a number of conveniences, but it also opens up opportunities for scammers and hackers to take advantage of people through tech fraud. That crime involves using technology in a variety of possible ways to mislead people, steal … Continue reading 5 Risks We Face with E-Voting Technology
New York has expanded its probe to subpoena 14 industry groups and lobbyists, saying that fake comments “distort[ed] public opinion.” Continue reading Up to 9.5 million net neutrality comments were fake
He or she is selling off the databases by state. Kansas’s voter database has already been sold and published, and Oregon is next up for sale. Continue reading 35 million US voter records up for sale on the dark web
Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the US, will pay $16 million to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights following a data breach that exposed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of almost … Continue reading Anthem Agrees to $16 Million Settlement Following Compromise of 80 Million Health Records
Facebook announced that the recent data breach it has suffered is a little less massive than initially thought: “only” 30 million users have been affected. But, although highly personal information has been harvested from the profiles of 14… Continue reading Facebook data breach: Victims will not be offered free identity theft protection
Am I who you think I am? My name is on this article, right next to a picture. You could send me a comment on Twitter or do a Google search to see if I’m legitimate. But is that really enough proof to prove my identity, to show that I am the actual per… Continue reading Real or Fake? The Difficulty in Detecting Fraudulent Identity
Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, a global database of public data breaches, revealing 945 data breaches led to 4.5 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2018. Compared to the same period in… Continue reading 945 data breaches led to compromise of 4.5 billion data records in first half of 2018
In order to play Poker online on some accounts you have to verify your age and identity.
And to do that, I need to email message the site with a picture of my Visa or Passport or ID card.
How dangerous is it for me to sen… Continue reading How dangerous is it to verify my account with a Visa picture, passport, or ID card?
Shir Levin used to report on government and law, but her journalism career wasn’t data-driven enough for her. She now uses her experience in news, psychology and statistics to fight identity fraud.
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One poor woman whose phone number was hijacked by robocallers got several calls a day from irate consumers who thought she was trying to market to them. Continue reading Robocallers slapped with huge fines for using spoofed phone numbers