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October 16, 2017

Krebs Given ISSA’s ‘President’s Award’

This post was originally published on this site16Oct 17 Krebs Given ISSA’s ‘President’s Award’ KrebsOnSecurity was honored this month with the 2017 President’s Award for Public Service from the Information Systems Security Association, a nonprofit organization for cybersecurity professionals. The award recognizes an individual’s contribution to the information security profession in the area of public service. It’s hugely gratifying to have received this award, mainly because of the company I now keep. Past ISSA President’s Award winners include former White House cybersecurity advisers Richard A. Clarke (2003) and the late Howard Schmidt (2016); DEF CON and Black Hat founder Jeff […]

May 9, 2018

Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

This post was originally published on this siteI spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new lines of credit for things like mobile phones on people who have already frozen their credit files with the big-three credit bureaus. Here’s a look at what may be going on, and how you can protect yourself. Carrie Kerskie […]

June 11, 2018

Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

This post was originally published on this siteWeb site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations. There are many sources for measuring domain reputation online, but one of the newest is The 10 Most Abused Top Level […]

July 25, 2018

LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses

This post was originally published on this siteIdentity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company. The upshot of this weakness is that cyber criminals could harvest the data and use it in targeted […]