Collaborate Disseminate
Using eBay causes your Windows PC’s ports to be scanned—personal data gets silently sent back to the mothership.
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Cybercrooks are using bots to create synthetic digital identities, to carry out various types of fraud. Continue reading ThreatList: Amidst Data Breaches, Account Creation Fraud Soars in 2019
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Another day, another data breach; this time, a security researcher has discovered a massive trove of data hosted on an unprotected MongoDB database available for anyone to access without any authentication. Discovered by Comparitech’s re… Continue reading Unprotected MongoDB leaks 188m users’ data from sensitive search engine
The recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal put a spotlight on the nebulous world of data brokers and data mining. As you shop, browse the Internet, participate in a quiz, subscribe to a magazine, fill a prescription, or network on social medi… Continue reading Data Brokers: You Are Being Packaged and Sold
In October 2017, KrebsOnSecurity warned that ne’er-do-wells could take advantage of a relatively new service offered by the U.S. Postal Service that provides scanned images of all incoming mail before it is slated to arrive at its destination address. We advised that stalkers or scammers could abuse this service by signing up as anyone in the household, because the USPS wasn’t at that point set up to use its own unique communication system — the U.S. mail — to alert residents when someone had signed up to receive these scanned images.
The USPS recently told this publication that beginning Feb. 16 it started alerting all households by mail whenever anyone signs up to receive these scanned notifications of mail delivered to that address. The notification program, dubbed “Informed Delivery,” includes a scan of the front and back of each envelope or package destined for a specific address. Continue reading USPS Finally Starts Notifying You by Mail If Someone is Scanning Your Snail Mail Online
Armed with an understanding of machine learning, ROSS Intelligence is going after LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters for ownership of legal research. The startup, founded in 2015 by Andrew Arruda, Jimoh Ovbiagele and Pargles Dall’Oglio at the University of Toronto, is announcing an $8.7 million Series A today led by iNovia Capital with participation from Comcast Ventures Catalyst Fund,… Read More Continue reading ROSS Intelligence lands $8.7M Series A to speed up legal research with AI
It’s been a remarkable week for cyber justice. On Thursday, a Ukrainian man who hatched a plan in 2013 to send heroin to my home and then call the cops when the drugs arrived was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unrelated cybercrime charges. Separately, a 19-year-old American who admitted to being part of a hacker group that sent a heavily-armed police force to my home in 2013 was sentenced to three years probation. Continue reading Men Who Sent Swat Team, Heroin to My Home Sentenced