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LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses

Krebs on Security

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. million customer accounts.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. In May 2016, one of its websites was hacked, resulting in 430,000 people having their personal information stolen. Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

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Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

Security Affairs

I started this research on September 2016, when I started writing my my book, “The Prison of the Humanity – from the deep web to 4.0 There are many blogs that for the greater part deal with issues of cybersecurity and the rights of the digital population in terms of consumer protection and privacy.

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