Headline News Archive

2017

October

19

• What to do if your financial information is stolen. Contrary to what movies portray, the most common crimes are not Taken-style abductions or home invasions, but the theft of personal information.  "The most effective…

• After Equifax hack, calls for big changes In credit reporting. The Equifax security breach — the largest known theft of Social Security numbers in history — has lawmakers, prosecutors and identity theft victims angry with…

13

• Equifax website hacked with malware (Chinese). 上個月才宣布曾遭駭的Equifax信用監測公司，12日再傳網安事故，因為有個網頁出現一種程式碼會把用戶導向一個惡意網址，敦促他們下載惡意軟體，被迫把其網站部分關閉。

12

• Making the lives of cybercriminals and spies harder online. As a cybersecurity reporter, what do you do to secure your technology setup?  Online, I make sure to use two-factor authentication whenever it is available.…

11

• Terrifying tales of data breaches make consumers want to scream. Former Washington Post writer Brian Krebs left the newspaper in 2009 to dedicate himself to a blog on cybersecurity: KrebsOnSecurity.com. Out of his work and…

09

• Five takeaways from Equifax's brutal week. Frustrated lawmakers last week put Equifax through the wringer over a massive data breach that affected more than 145 million Americans. Richard Smith, the former CEO…

05

• Monopoly Man photobombs Senate hearing on Equifax. The Monopoly Man made an appearance at the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the massive Equifax data breach.  Wearing a top hat, monocle, and white…

• Deciding the right path for shielding your credit report. In response to the breach, Equifax is now offering a year of free credit monitoring through its identity-theft prevention service, TrustedID Premier. The service gives…

• Equifax calls for free credit locks. Experian’s reply? Nope.. When Equifax’s recently retired chief executive, Richard F. Smith, appeared before a panel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Tuesday, he held himself out…

04

• Every single Yahoo account was hacked in 2013. Sitting down? An epic and historic data breach at Yahoo in August 2013 affected every single customer account that existed at the time, Yahoo parent…

• Lawmakers berate Equifax ex-CEO. Equifax Inc.’s former chief executive trekked to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to offer contrition and explanation for the credit reporting company’s massive data breach. He…

• Cuidado con la llave maestra de sus finanzas. El escándalo por la brecha de seguridad del bureau de crédito de Equifax ha puesto a muchos consumidores en guardia porque es como si 145.5…

03

• SEC says 2016 hack did expose personal information. The SEC had initially said the 2016 breach had potentially allowed hackers to make an illegal profit from stock sales, but had not exposed any…

• Whole Foods: hackers gained access to customers' credit cards. Whole Foods shoppers are being urged to check their credit card statements, after the company says it was hacked.

• Yahoo triplica cifra de afectados por ciberataque de 2013. \Yahoo triplicó el martes lo que ya era el mayor ciberataque de la historia, al informar que afectó a 3.000 millones de sus usuarios, y…

02

• The danger of giving your child ‘smart toys’. The acronym IoT has a new meaning — “Internet of Toys”— and just like the old abbreviation, for Internet of Things, this one comes with…

• ‘It will be momentous’: Supreme Court embarks on new term. The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with a fortified conservative majority and a docket filled with some of the moment’s most contentious issues:…

• Las redes sociales de quienes entren a Estados Unidos serán revisadas. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional pronto comenzará a recolectar datos en redes sociales de todos los inmigrantes que entren a Estados Unidos. Es parte de…

September

29

• Tinder sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets. The Tinder dating app has 800 pages of information on me, and probably on you too if you are also one of its 50 million…

28

• 3 weeks later, Equifax makes a peace offering. For some time, the credit reporting industry has been quietly attempting to change the behavior of consumers who wish to protect their own data: They…

26

• Deloitte hit by cyber-attack revealing clients’ secret emails. One of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has been targeted by a sophisticated hack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of…

• Equifax destituye a su director tras filtración de datos. La empresa de calificación crediticia Equifax destituyó a su director ejecutivo Richard Smith tras un ciberataque que dejó vulnerables los datos de 143 millones de…

25

• Five issues driving the push to crack down on tech giants. Tech giants like Google and Facebook are facing new government scrutiny, after years of enjoying a hands-off approach from legislators and regulators. The Silicon Valley…

• La lucha entre Facebook y los gobiernos por la web. Tuan Pham despertó cuando la policía entró a la fuerza a su casa en Hanói, Vietnam, una tarde húmeda de finales de primavera. Lo escoltaron…

22

• Facebook to turn over russian-linked ads to Congress. Under growing pressure from Congress and the public to reveal more about the spread of covert Russian propaganda on Facebook, the company said on Thursday…