Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?
January 19 2022Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites. They take your name and info, and do a...
Read moreDesigning Contact-Tracing Apps
September 13 2021Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps. Also see her excellent book on the topic.
Read moreApple and Google block official UK COVID-19 app update
April 12 2021UK coronavirus app update apparently included "feature creep" that's explicitly prohibited by Apple's and Google's programming rules.
Read moreCOVID-19 and Acedia
October 2 2020Note: This isn’t my usual essay topic. Still, I want to put it on my blog.
Six months into the pandemic with no end in sight, many of us have...
Read moreFBI, CISA Echo Warnings on ‘Vishing’ Threat
August 21 2020The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued a joint alert to warn about the growing threat from voice phishing...
Read moreA group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on...
Read moreBusiness ID Theft Soars Amid COVID Closures
July 27 2020Identity thieves who specialize in running up unauthorized lines of credit in the names of small businesses are having a field day with all of the closures and economic...
Read moreNo US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process....
Read moreCOVID-19 ‘Breach Bubble’ Waiting to Pop?
June 30 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for banks to trace the source of payment card data stolen from smaller, hacked online merchants. On the plus side, months of...
Read moreA well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of...
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