Category: Identity

Cybercriminals depend upon the income they generate from their schemes to fund further operations, and one of the main ways that they extract money from victims is through ad fraud. This week, researchers at White Ops disclosed the existence of the Methbot ad fraud network, which is using a sophisticated worldwide infrastructure and custom browsers…

One of the great things about the advanced mobile devices everyone carries now is that they serve so many different purposes. They’re encyclopedias, world maps, communications devices, and now they’ve evolved to become wallets, too. But as convenient as mobile wallet technology is, it carries with it some unique threats and risks for both consumers…

For the second time in less than three months, Yahoo has disclosed a massive data breach, and this is one for the record books. The company said more than one billion accounts are affected by the breach, and Yahoo officials still aren’t exactly sure how the attackers got in. On Wednesday evening, Yahoo CISO Bob…

Google has spent a lot of time and money on security over the last few years, developing new technologies and systems to protect users’ devices. One of the newer technologies the company has come up with is designed to provide security for users themselves rather than their laptops or phones. On Monday Google launched a new…

As consumers have begun using ad blockers in greater numbers, skipping TV ads with DVRs, and generally looking for any possible way to avoid advertising, technology providers and marketers have been trying to find new methods to get their messages in front of potential buyers. One of the newer methods uses ultrasonic signals in ads…

Law enforcement officials in 10 countries conducted sweeping raids Monday on what they is a distributed, organized cybercrime ring that has been conducting online fraud operations across Europe and have stolen more than €3.5 million. The raids were coordinated by Europol and involved authorities in the U.K., Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland, and several countries, and resulted…

As the security of IoT devices has become more and more of a problem, Visa and Intel are forming an alliance to make payments from those devices more secure and trustworthy. The partnership has two separate components: adding Visa’s encryption technology to devices that use Intel’s chipsets, and hardware-level device authentication to ensure that payments are…

Jessy Irwin makes her triumphant return to the podcast to help us work through our feelings about the Yahoo data breach, the NIST guidance on SMS two-factor authentication, and why we’re still giving terrible security advice to users. Dennis Fisher and Jessy also talk about what kind of breaches could be lurking on the horizon…

Six Democratic senators are demanding answers from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer about the massive data breach that the company disclosed last week. The legislators want to know when Yahoo discovered the breach, which occurred in 2014, and why it took so long to disclose it to the public. The Yahoo data breach involves information from…

The goal of many attackers is taking over a target account. That can be the account of an admin at a large enterprise, the bank account of a high net-worth victim, or the email account of a human rights activist. While banks and financial services companies are aware of the problem, many other organizations aren’t,…