This week we have been investigating browser hacking, or the inadvertent disclosure of personal information that is saved and stored by your browser. Today we will be showing several actions you can take to keep your information private.
The best way to protect yourself from a remote attacker is to prevent the remote access malware needed to access your computer from installing ...
Continue Reading →In our last post, we discovered the trove of personal information that our web browser saves automatically, in the form of cookies, temporary Internet files, code snippets, and stored passwords. Today we learn how an attacker could use this information in further exploits against you.
Using the information stored in your browser, an attacker can build a detailed ...
Continue Reading →Did you know that web browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer save a lot of personal information that a cyber-attacker could us as research to build a web dossier about you, your likes, and your habits? A personal dossier that could be used for a deeper attack?
Did you know that web browsers store parts of web ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.05/07/2018 08:30 PM EDT Original release date: May 07, 2018
FBI has released the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2017 Internet Crime Report, which highlights scams trending online. The top three crime types reported by victims in 2017 were non-payment/non-delivery, personal data breach, ...
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If you or someone you know uses a pacemaker from Abbot or St Jude Medical, there is a firmware upgrade waiting for you at your next check-up. Or even sooner, depending on what you and your doctor decide. This upgrade closes a security hole that could allow an unauthorized person or attacker to change programming on the pacemaker. ...
We have written about the process of requesting a “credit freeze” on your credit file with the big three credit bureaus as a way to protect yourself from someone opening credit accounts in your name. I just read an article from Lending Tree about another credit protection method called a “fraud alert.”
You can call one of the credit bureaus ...
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The latest trend in the card payment universe are the mobile payment apps that let you use a smart watch or smartphone in place of a credit card. Just how secure are these payment systems? One of my regular readers, Eric Morley, owner of Big Frog Custom T-Shirts in Woodbury, MN, asked me that question via LinkedIn, and I thought it was a great idea for an ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.We have written and spoken frequently about web site hijacking attacks. Here is an article that shows that EVERY website is a target of automated attacks. Every ...
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If you were hit with credit card fraud this year, you are not alone. 15% of Americans surveyed by CompareCards, a LendingTree subsidiary, reported they had been victimized in 2017. Fraud can happen without losing your card. While card companies and banks are more alert to fraud than ever, cardholders are often the first to discover the fraudulent use of their card.
The two main types of card ...
Continue Reading →The EMV chip has make credit card fraud harder, but credit card fraudsters are taking an interesting new twist. By intercepting new credit cards in the mail, they are stealing the new chip off the card and replacing it with an old, dead chip, before resealing the envelope and sending it on to the recipient. The new chip is glued on to a fake card. When the recipient activates the new card, the stolen chip is activated, and the theives ...
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