How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History

From krebsonsecurity.com 5 years ago in Blogs Security

A KrebsOnSecurity series on how easy big-three credit bureau Equifax makes it to get detailed salary history data on tens of millions of Americans apparently inspired a deeper dive on the subject by Fast Company, which examined how this Equifax division has been one of the company's best investments. In...

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

From krebsonsecurity.com 9 hours ago in Blogs Security

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake...

Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

From krebsonsecurity.com 4 days ago in Blogs Security

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging states and localities to beef up security around proprietary devices that connect to the Emergency Alert System -- a national public warning system used to deliver important emergency information, such as severe...

It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

From krebsonsecurity.com 5 days ago in Blogs Security

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm's analysis of the data suggests...

The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases

From krebsonsecurity.com 6 days ago in Blogs Security

One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. Adding a "+" character after the username portion of your email address -- followed by...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2022 Edition

From krebsonsecurity.com 1 week ago in Blogs Security

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Once again, Microsoft is patching a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), a service built into Windows. Redmond...

Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs Security

A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July,...

Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs Security

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. In this case, the...

No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

From krebsonsecurity.com 2 weeks ago in Blogs Security

With the recent demise of several popular "proxy" services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based...

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs Security

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its...

Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

From krebsonsecurity.com 3 weeks ago in Blogs Security

Microleaves, a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, exposed their entire user database and the location of tens of millions of PCs running the proxy software. Microleaves claims its proxy...