Category: Identity

Lavabit, the secure email service that shut down in 2013 rather than turn over the encryption key for a user account to the federal government, has reemerged with a new encrypted mail offering based on a standard developed by the company. It’s been more than three years since Lavabit founder Ladar Levison decided to end the…

Attackers backed by a foreign government were behind the attack that compromised health insurance company Anthem in 2015, a breach that compromised the information of more than 78 million people, according to the findings of an investigation into the attack. The Anthem data breach is one of the larger health cae-related incidents ever in the United…

The fraud schemes that consumers and businesses face every day are the end result of a lot of research, work, and planning on the part of the criminals who perpetrate them. There are a lot of moving pieces in the background that victims never see, and often the schemes involve many intermediate steps before a…

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…