The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has postponed the Capital One trial against alleged hacker Paige A. Thompson following new charges after additional victims were revealed, The Record reported Wednesday (June 30). The DOJ filed seven new charges against Thompson, who was a former Amazon...
Fraudsters are preying on children, pilfering Social Security numbers and other data to commit identity theft, run up charges and ruin credit. Zac Cohen, general manager of Trulioo, tells Karen Webster that education and technology (along with a global digital ID network) can shield the...
Whether they are finding employment opportunities using platforms such as Freelancer.com, finding affordable lodging for their next vacation or merely hitching a ride across town using Uber or Lyft, some 111 million consumers daily use services offered by sharing economy platforms. Despite their popularity, platforms...
Not every innovation is a good innovation. Some, like the pet rock, are merely fads. Others, like the iPhone, are change-the-world impactful. Then there are others that are clever but ill-applied – as in malicious and destructive. We saw a bunch of that last week. Fingerprints...
October 18, 2019
Fraudsters are preying on children, pilfering Social Security numbers and other data to commit identity theft, run up charges and ruin credit. Zac Cohen, general manager of Trulioo, tells Karen Webster that education and technology (along with a global digital ID network) can shield the youngest victims.
February 20, 2023
GoDaddy has discovered the third cyberattack on its network by the same group since 2020. In the most recent attack, which was discovered in December 2022, an attacker installed malware that intermittently and randomly redirected customer websites to malicious sites, the domain registrar said in a Friday (Feb. 17) filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Once we […]
June 30, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has postponed the Capital One trial against alleged hacker Paige A. Thompson following new charges after additional victims were revealed, The Record reported Wednesday...
February 22, 2019
Lawmakers in California have proposed a new bill that would close some loopholes in data breach notification laws, according to reports. Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the bill would increase...
December 03, 2018
Hackers might have another way to steal data from corporations: cryptomining software. Troy Kent, a threat researcher at Awake Security, presented his findings at the InfoSecurity North America Conference in...
