Collaborate Disseminate
New account fraud is rising in popularity among cybercriminals due to the frequency with which users are opening new online banking accounts.
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Live from BSides Calgary in Alberta, Canada, here’s this week’s Chet Chat podcast…
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At the U.S. Republican National Convention in Cleveland last year, more than 1,200 people connected to free WiFi networks with names like “I Vote Trump! Free Internet,” “I Vote Hillary! Free Internet,” and “Xfinitywifi.” They transferred gigabytes of data, doing things like checking e-mails and chatting. Some even shopped on Amazon or logged into their […]… Read More
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American’s should “assume their data is already in the hands of criminals and ‘act accordingly.’”
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My partner has a unique name, and while we can’t truly be certain, we’re almost 100% sure she is the only one in the world with it.
Once upon a time she had a Hotmail account with her name as the username, along the lines of… Continue reading Someone has registered my partner’s recycled email account
I want to allow users of our website to restrict access to their account from devices they have explicitly authorized. This will be checked at the connection and each time the IP address changes.
To do this, I need to identi… Continue reading What is the safest way to identify a device without human action please?
CISOs must possess skills and expertise in multiple areas to combat health care security risks in this age of ransomware and connected medical devices.
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We see lots of phishing attempts for email credentials. This one is surprisingly good. The criminals have gone to a lot of effort to choose a domain name that will fool an extremely large number of recipients, who only look quickly at it when following links in the email. A … Continue reading → Continue reading Your e-mail account has exceed it’s limit – Phishing
The results of a new Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) study on consumer perceptions and behaviors in response to identity theft and data breaches demonstrate widespread uncertainty among consumers, who don’t know how to resolve identity theft or effectively protect themselves. After receiving the breach notification, what was your initial feeling? Data breach victims The study surveyed consumers who had experienced a data breach that exposed their personal information, and explored the ways that respondents … More → Continue reading When it comes to data breaches, consumers don’t know where to turn
According to Gemalto’s Breach Level Index, 918 data breaches led to 1.9 billion data records being compromised worldwide in the first half of 2017. Compared to the last six months of 2016, the number of lost, stolen or compromised records increased by 164%. A large portion came from the 22 largest data breaches, each involving more than one million compromised records. Of the 918 data breaches more than 500 (59% of all breaches) had an … More → Continue reading Number of lost, stolen or compromised records increased by 164%