The NY Times is reporting that the IRS finally admitted that their tax transcript service is great for identity thieves and shut it down. In 2013, thieves used it and other techniques to get over $5 billion in bogus tax refunds – costing the U.S. government (AKA you and me) a lot of money and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mastercard and Target concocted an agreement where Target would pay a fine of $19 million to settle all of the bank’s claims against Target as a result of the 2013-14 breach. This would be separate from an agreement with Visa. Mastercard was not able to get enough banks to agree to it, so the lawsuits […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In addition to the traditional ransomware that everyone knows about, the AdultFriendFinder breach I wrote about earlier has the hackers blackmailing users of the site. Now, mSpy clients are being extorted too. Brian Krebs is reporting that hackers are using the mSpy breach to extort iPhone users. Apparently, users who have mSpy installed are asked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN and others have reported on the hacking of the adult dating site AdultFriendFinder, where members enter their interests in non-traditional sexual relationships. Over 3 million members “interests” and other information were revealed in the data released so far. According to the site, it has “helped millions of people find traditional partners, swinger groups, threesomes, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The DoJ IG just released an assessment of the FBI’s use of the mass data collection powers of section 215 of The Patriot Act, renewal of which is currently being debated in Congress and the report says that no case developments resulted from the use of Section 215 orders. The Inspector General said: “As with our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another software supply chain exploit. This time, Zytel and D-Link have confirmed that their routers have the bug, but researchers think products from Netgear, TP-Link, Trendnet and other vendors are vulnerable. Already 90 plus products from more than 20 vendors have been potentially identified as vulnerable. Only TP-Link has announced a patch. The […]
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