Thursday, December 19, 2019
Is privacy.com convenient enough to use for everything? It does seem curative for credit card fraud
As I recall, it was David Pakman who mentioned privacy.com
as a practical shield against fraud and maybe identity theft when shopping
online.
Here’s a video
And here’s a writeup on how it’s supposed to work. You create pseudo-cards with each vendor and
pay from a bank account, but you give up rewards.
Thursday, December 05, 2019
Mozila Firefox and Google Chrome have new tools to check your email addresses for breaches, and the results are pretty shocking.
Clifford Colby has an article in
CNET on how to check the dark web for your logon passwords after a data breach,
link.
I tried this with Mozilla Firefox Monitor and found
seven violations. The most glaring was “People
Data Labs” There was a breach of over
600 million accounts (potentially) in October 2019. This seems to be a
generalized data broker company selling to advertisers. Here’s another supporting story.
I’m a little concerned about Verifications.io in March
2019 because that happened when I was trying to get a digital wallet to work. There
is very little value involved, however. Here’s a story from the ITRC. Over 700 million violations. This seems to be a pattern.
I also have them from Ticketfly (2018), MySpace (2016),
Linkedin (2016), and Adobe (2013).
I have very little on Myspace and haven’t looked at it
for years. I look at Linked In occasionally.
The pattern of these breaches suggests mostly Russian,
Chinese or former republic origins (maybe North Korean) for the hacks.
These could
explain some robocalls (which increased in 2018), some spam (that looks very
silly).
You would wonder if data breaches could complicate the enforcement of (and even liability problems for creators) associated with COPPA, and maybe CCPA, as third party plugins or cookies might be feeding these companies.
You would wonder if data breaches could complicate the enforcement of (and even liability problems for creators) associated with COPPA, and maybe CCPA, as third party plugins or cookies might be feeding these companies.
There have also been emails
claiming I purchased Apple products in Indonesia. Kazakhstan and Belarus, and
no bill for them ever showed up. Of course
I haven’t been to these places. Programmers don't have good legitimate jobs in these countries.
Google Chrome offers a similar tool but it appears
your devices need to be synced first.
In 2013, a pickpocket robbery on the DC Metro resulted
in about $27000 attempted smart card fraud before the systems stopped it. Metro had to eat this one. The perp was
arrested later on another crime.
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