fraud Woman, 48, posed as her 22-year-old daughter, took student loans, attended classes, and dated college guys David Pescovitz

security Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks Cory Doctorow

trumpism Blockbuster Gizmodo investigation reveals probable masterminds of the massive anti-Net Neutrality identity theft/astroturf campaign Cory Doctorow

privacy A tip to keep your home address off the internet Cory Doctorow

Business US governmental requests for comment are routinely flooded by pro-corporate bots Cory Doctorow

Business Report: someone is already selling user data from defunct Canadian retailer's auctioned-off servers Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Criminals have perfected the art of taking over dead peoples' online accounts Cory Doctorow

Business Defective Comcast security exposes 26.5m customers' partial Social Security Numbers and addresses Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Two sitting Senators were among the people whose identities were stolen in FCC comments from anti-Net Neutrality bots Cory Doctorow

crime Equifax lets identity thieves raid "frozen" credit reports through its shady, obscure secondary credit bureau Cory Doctorow

security Equifax finally publishes a tally of what got breached when it left 146.6 million credit files unsecured Cory Doctorow

identity theft Attempted murder by cheesecake for the purpose of identity theft Jason Weisberger

security Man discovers he has been impersonated on Amazon by a money-launderer selling $555 "books" full of computer-generated word salad Cory Doctorow

Business Fedex bought a company that stored 119,000 pieces of scanned customer IDs in a public Amazon cloud server, shut the company down, left the scans online for anyone to download Cory Doctorow

Business New York Times profiles a sleazy Twitter follower-farm, the sleazy serial liar who made millions on it, and the celebs, politicians, sports figures and "influencers" who paid him Cory Doctorow

security Wired releases a surveillance self-defense guide Cory Doctorow

Business Democratic Senators propose federal breach disclosure law with 5-year prison sentences for covering up data-loss Cory Doctorow

security Once you have a student's name, birthday and SSN, the US Department of Education will give you EVERYTHING else Cory Doctorow

security Motherboard's excellent, accessible guide to internet security Cory Doctorow

privacy A quantitative analysis of doxing: who gets doxed, and how can we detect doxing automatically? Cory Doctorow