I Seem to Have a LinkedIn Account
I seem to have a LinkedIn account. This comes as a surprise, since I don’t have a LinkedIn account, and have never logged in to LinkedIn. Does anyone have any contacts into the company? I would like to...
View ArticleOn the Equifax Data Breach
Last Thursday, Equifax reported a data breach that affects 143 million US customers, about 44% of the population. It’s an extremely serious breach; hackers got access to full names, Social Security...
View ArticleReplacing Social Security Numbers
In the wake of the Equifax break, I’ve heard calls to replace Social Security numbers. Steve Bellovin explains why this is hard.
View ArticleMaliciously Changing Someone's Address
Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course, is that in the US there isn’t any...
View ArticleDetecting Lies through Mouse Movements
Interesting research: “The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics,” by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked...
View ArticleProtecting Yourself from Identity Theft
I don’t have a lot of good news for you. The truth is there’s nothing we can do to protect our data from being stolen by cybercriminals and others. Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of...
View ArticleIdentity Theft on the Job Market
Identity theft is getting more subtle: “My job application was withdrawn by someone pretending to be me“: When Mr Fearn applied for a job at the company he didn’t hear back. He said the recruitment...
View ArticleFabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud
This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March...
View ArticleExperian Privacy Vulnerability
Brian Krebs is reporting on a vulnerability in Experian’s website: Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit...
View ArticleIdentity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition
Interesting story: Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after his sibling’s death as an infant, and used the stolen identity to obtain Social...
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