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Is Chase’s (800) 355-5265 really their fraud detection number? (Spoiler alert: yes)

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Dissent

Yesterday morning, I received a call from an 800-number that was only identified on my Caller ID as “Toll-Free.” I didn’t pick up, but Googled the number and found pages of reports, many of which suggested that the number, presumably for Chase Fraud Detection, was a scam. Others claimed it was for real. Not very…

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HALOCK Investigation Finds that 25% of Sampled Colleges and Universities Are Putting Student and Parent Private Financial Data at Risk

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Dissent

Yes, some surveys are self-serving, but this one has some data of interest: Cybersecurity firm, HALOCK Security Labs, found that this back-to-school season may be an ideal time for data thieves to steal the personal and financial information of students and parents. HALOCK found that over 50% of the colleges and universities investigated allow for…

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Apple Developer site hack: doubts cast on Turkish hacker’s claims

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Dissent

Charles Arthur reports: A Guardian investigation has cast doubt on claims by a UK-based Turkish researcher that he hacked into Apple’s Developer portal, which has been offline for more than a week. Read more on The Guardian.

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The VERIS Community Database

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Dissent

From Verizon: … Verizon is addressing this need by launching a new initiative to collect, organize and publish all publicly disclosed data breaches. The data is coded into VERIS format and available in an interactive dashboard via Tableau Public as well as in individual files in JSON format in a GitHub repository. Both can be reached from the VERIS Community site…

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KPMG found leaking data, as it criticises every single company in the FTSE 350 for doing the same

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Dissent

And irony meters everywhere explode. Graham Cluley explains.

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World’s Biggest Data Breaches

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Dissent

Interesting visualization of world’s largest data breaches. This blog was one of the sources used to produce the visualization.

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