By Michael Hiskey, Chief Product Evangelist at Socure Conventional wisdom: be careful what personal information you place online; more information means you’re more likely to have it stolen, making you a victim of identity theft. Well sometimes, conventional wisdom is wrong.
Your online dating profile may not be as private as you think. The AshleyMadison.com hack showed that profiles could be exposed by hackers, but that is not the only privacy concern. The Electronic Frontier Foundation points out some common privacy and security hazards with online dating, and suggests how you…
Virtual kidnappings do not involve physically holding someone for ransom, but they can be just as terrifying to the targets and their families. In a virtual kidnapping, criminals contact family members and claim that their loved one is being held and they must pay a ransom or the victim will…
Medical identity theft occurs when a criminal uses someone else’s personal information to receive medical treatment and supplies. A recent study by the Medical Identity Fraud Alliance (MIFA) indicates that medical identity theft has nearly doubled since 2010, with more than 2.3 million adult victims in the U.S in 2014.…
Perhaps you have seen the stories about a little girl using her family’s Amazon Echo to order a dollhouse. Or maybe you heard that news reports about that incident caused the Echos of television viewers to try to order the same dollhouse. And then there was the Google Home Super…
Many people have wills that determine who receives their property after they die. But what happens to their email accounts, Facebook profile and other online services? Photos and documents may be lost forever, as some accounts cannot be claimed by anyone else. Even the accounts that can be transferred may…
Victims of identity theft now have a new resource to help them report and recover from identity theft. .In 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received 330,000 complaints related to identity theft. Now, the agency has launched IdentityTheft.gov to assist those affected by this crime. There is a Spanish-language version…
Boarding passes with barcodes help to expedite the boarding process, but do you need to be concerned about the data contained in those barcodes? Security expert Brian Krebs says, yes, that barcodes on used boarding passes may reveal more about you than you realize.