Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. In 2006, several of the same scientists who developed Tor founded the Tor Project, a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Identity theft also affects around 1.4 Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. When you add this type of data to cloud storage, ensure your account is protected with more than just a password.

Data privacy 98

Data privacy Identity Theft Accountability Banking 98

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

Together, CWRU and the FBI were able to identify that an IP address with which the malware was communicating had also been used to access the alumni email account of a man called Phillip Durachinsky. As a member of the club, he competed in a local programming competition, helping the team to win in both 2005 and 2006.

Malware 82

Malware Passwords Identity Theft Data collection 82

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 6, 2020

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S. info and findget[.]me,

Accountability 346

Accountability Identity Theft Hacking Insurance 346

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135