Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While many people might think of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups when it comes to infiltrating social media platforms, there’s actually a global network of hackers participating in an underground economy where things like Facebook and Instagram accounts are commodities.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2020

His thinking on this subject is blocks ahead of government regulators (though perhaps not government surveillance agencies). The internet is awash in dual- factor authentication protocols to confirm your identity before you can check your bank balance or pay your insurance premium.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

The fascination in the idea comes from the observation that AI models don’t need the same kind of precision as, say, bank ledgers. Chance of succeeding: The success or failure will probably be governed by the nature of the applications. Chance of succeeding: The basic algorithms work well; the challenge is social resistance.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They are sending phishing emails to target senior engineers working for phone companies, they are targeting banks as well," Hacquebord says. And according to Hacquebord, they are also going after activists, government leaders, journalists, and more. government dubbed Pawn Storm. "They target a lot of doctors.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Acting as purposely malignant, malware is disguised as an authentic application available from an apparently trustworthy source. The victims could be big companies, small agencies, governments, or even individual users. Attackers can easily make their way through social sites and activities.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

million stolen from HSBC Bank A.S. from the government. The majority of these attacks are due to hacking, fraud and social engineering. Social engineering is a methodology that enables a perpetrator to persuade or induce an individual to provide sensitive information or access to the unauthorized perpetrator.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

They are bureaucracies for governing something. Legibility is a term used to describe how administrative systems make things governable by simplifying, inventorying, and rationalizing things around them. Every interaction you have online happens under the watchful eye of a bureaucracy built to govern the system and the people using it.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and driver license images. Oh, how times have changed.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

But this method of authentication is flawed; either hashed or hashed and salted, usernames and passwords can still be stolen and reused. Vamosi: Identity -- I’m talking specifically about authentication and to some degree its follow-on authorization -- is one of the most important, yet least talked about aspects of security.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. What was compromised: b ank account numbers, bank statements, mortgage and tax records, social security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. How times have changed. Records affected: 21.5

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Covid-19 has prevented fraudsters from scamming free phones in-store using fake identities, so instead they have taken over phone accounts and subsequently bank accounts by impersonating customers through other channels. Eventually, fraudsters shifted their focus to government programs.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

She uses her iPhone and consumer software to make her videos, and I’ve got to say, she has one of the healthiest relationships with the social platforms of maybe any creator I’ve ever talked to: she thinks of them purely as marketing channels for the video courses she sells elsewhere. The social media channels are my main marketing.

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Phil Windley

MAY 30, 2018

In the physical world, people collect and manage identity credentials 1 from various sources including governments, financial institutions, schools, businesses, family, colleagues, and friends. Social login allows it to be used across contexts but the kind of information shared is limited and its provenance is often difficult to determine.

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2020

Identity usually conjures thoughts of authentication and various federation schemes that purport to make authentication easier. We call this a "connection" since DIDs are cryptographically based and thus provide a means of both parties mutually authenticating. And when a digital relationship ends, it should really be over.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And on top of that, social engineering woes are growing, that's becoming more and more of fraudulent payments, just all these other things. So maybe the government steps in and makes it easier for that organization to get insurance? It's not really a dip. Like I said, I believe it's a false positive. Yeah, we're all good.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

The Governance Layer. Decentralized Discovery and Governance of the Ledger. The Sovrin Foundation and its Technical Governance Board (TGB) has designed the ledger and its governance to ensure that the ledger is public, open, and decentralized. The Sovrin Stack comprises four layers: The Ledger Layer. The Agent Layer.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

Summary: Generative identity allows us to live digital lives with dignity and effectiveness, contemplates and addresses the problems of social inclusion, and supports economic equality to everyone around the globe. Professional licensing (government and private). Certificate of authenticity (e.g. Drivers license. Credit cards.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s interactive, social, and user-generated. We use social sites like Facebook (a middleman) to keep in touch with friends. We use social sites like Facebook (a middleman) to keep in touch with friends. We can send money electronically through our banks or apps, which operate as middlemen. That being said, Web 2.0

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Vox

JULY 13, 2022

Musk also prevailed in a 2014 lawsuit against the US Air Force , arguing that the government had unfairly awarded a valuable defense contract to United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, without opening it up to a competitive bidding process.

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The Verge

APRIL 25, 2022

Like a classroom where the teacher is late and students are attempting to self-govern, one said. billion financing package that Musk unveiled on Thursday in support of his bid for Twitter would come from his assets, with the remainder coming from bank loans secured against the social media platform’s assets. Time will tell!

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