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
Business Democratic Senators propose federal breach disclosure law with 5-year prison sentences for covering up data-loss Cory Doctorow
crime Once you have a student's name, birthday and SSN, the US Department of Education will give you EVERYTHING else Cory Doctorow
privacy A quantitative analysis of doxing: who gets doxed, and how can we detect doxing automatically? Cory Doctorow
security Equifax will give your salary history to anyone with your SSN and date of birth Cory Doctorow
Business Predictably, Wells Fargo loves Equifax and suggests investing heavily in the company Cory Doctorow
Business Equifax was always dirty, it bills the US government for millions, and was repeatedly hacked Cory Doctorow
security Equifax has terrible information security practices, and that resulted in multiple breaches Cory Doctorow
identity theft Josh Duggar sued by guy who claims Duggar used his photo on Ashley Madison Rob Beschizza
Business Equifax waited 5 weeks to admit it had doxed 44% of America, did nothing to help us while its execs sold stock Cory Doctorow
net neutrality The anti-Net Neutrality bots that flooded the FCC impersonated dead people Cory Doctorow
