Category: identitytheft

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Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud

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artificialintelligence, cybercrime, fraud, identitytheft, impersonation, Security technology

This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive’s voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 ($243,000) in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in hacking. Another news article. Powered by WPeMatico

Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft

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cybercrime, encryption, essays, identitytheft, passwords, Security technology

I don’t have a lot of good news for you. The truth is there’s nothing we can do to protect our data from being stolen by cybercriminals and others. Ten years ago, I could have given you all sorts of advice about using encryption, not sending information over email, securing your web connections, and a … Read More “Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft” »

Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements

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academicpapers, identification, identitytheft, lies, Security technology

Interesting research: “The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics,” by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked identities is a major problem in security. Current memory-detection techniques cannot be used as they require prior knowledge of the respondent’s true identity. Here, we report a novel technique … Read More “Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements” »

Maliciously Changing Someone’s Address

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authentication, fraud, identitytheft, mail, Security technology

Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course, is that in the US there isn’t any authentication of change-of-address submissions: According to the Postal Service, nearly 37 million change-of-address requests ­ known as PS Form 3575 ­ were … Read More “Maliciously Changing Someone’s Address” »

On the Equifax Data Breach

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breaches, datacollection, fraud, identitytheft, nationalsecuritypolicy, privacy, Security technology, surveillance

Last Thursday, Equifax reported a data breach that affects 143 million US customers, about 44% of the population. It’s an extremely serious breach; hackers got access to full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, driver’s license numbers — exactly the sort of information criminals can use to impersonate victims to banks, credit card companies, … Read More “On the Equifax Data Breach” »