ABC News reported what we already knew and as Bruce Schneier aptly said – the TSA is security theatre. All show and not much substance. Homeland Security “Red Teams” were successful 67 out of 70 times at getting mock weapons and explosives through TSA checkpoints all over the country. Previously, TSA “fails” had been cast […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As expected, Congress was not able to come to a consensus regarding renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act, which expired about 30 minutes ago. The three provisions – bulk data collection of metadata of all phones calls in the U.S., roving wiretap warrants (warrants on people, rather than a particular phone number) and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Uber has released a new privacy statement which goes into effect July 15th. If you use Uber after that date, you are consenting to their new policy. While not outrageous, it is interesting. And it does point out one difference between Uber and a taxi. The taxi is much more anonymous. At worst, the taxi […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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