A year later, Heartbleed bug still hasn’t been squashed

A recent report by cybersecurity management firm Venafi showing that a vast majority of the world’s largest companies remain vulnerable to attacks stemming from...

Massive Auburn Data Breach Ensnares Applicants, Students & Those Who Never Even Applied

Thousands of students who never even applied to Auburn University have had their personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed due to a security...

Last-Minute Tax Filers: Beware of This Obamacare Scam

For all stripe of rip-off artist, tax season might as well be called open season. Scams are legion, and navigating a solution after the...
Credit Card

Switch to chip & sign credit cards still leaves users exposed

The way Americans spend money is on the verge of its biggest change in decades, but the drumbeat of doubters continues to get louder....

Will Your Next Debt Collector Be a Robot?

Are the days of debt collectors sitting in cubicles “dialing for dollars” numbered? Debt collection, like many sectors of the economy, is starting to...
Premera Breach

(Video) Premera Warned By Government Weeks Before Hacking

Adam Levin spoke with the Willis Report about the Blue Cross Premera data breach, and the recent revelation that they were warned by the...

It Took Just One Email to Compromise the Leaders of the Free World

Whether an autofill mishap or a “What in the name of God were you thinking?” move, somebody’s shrimp is on the barbie at Australia’s...
White House

White House Privacy Bill Faces Long Road Ahead

The recently released White House Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights discussion draft may give consumers better protections than currently available in the United States....

How This Federal Data Breach Law Could Actually Hurt Consumers

With each passing brand name mega-breach—Home Depot, Target, JPMorgan Chase, Anthem—it becomes ever more urgent for government and industry to get on the same...

Identity Theft Victim Spends 32 Days in Jail

A Georgia man says he spent 32 days in a Missouri jail for crimes a former roommate committed. It was a case of identity...