Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

The Digital Authenticity for Court Orders Act would require federal, state and tribal courts to use a digital signature for orders authorizing surveillance, domain seizures and removal of online content.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

In these attacks, the hackers will identify email addresses associated with law enforcement personnel, and then attempt to authenticate using passwords those individuals have used at other websites that have been breached previously. In other cases, KT said, hackers will try to guess the passwords of police department email systems.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

That ban, which came in response to a series of bank account takeovers in which cybercriminals used aggregation sites to surveil and drain consumer accounts, has since been rescinded. Crooks are constantly probing bank Web sites for customer accounts protected by weak or recycled passwords.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But Ferri said once the REACT Task Force got involved in his case, it became clear that video surveillance footage from the date and time of his SIM swap showed no such evidence of anyone entering the store to present a fake ID. He advises people instead use a mobile app like Authy or Google Authenticator to generate the one-time code.

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