Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

Report: Big U.S. Banks Are Stiffing Account Takeover Victims

When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud ...
Hacker Paige Thompson is FREE (‘Because Transgender Status and Mental Health Issues’)

Hacker Paige Thompson is FREE (‘Because Transgender Status and Mental Health Issues’)

Capital One hacker Paige A. Thompson sentenced to “time served and probation.” The judge went easy “because of her mental health and transgender status,” according to the sore losers at the DoJ ...
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Hacker Paige Thompson Could Face 45 Years in Prison — ‘Suicide by Law Enforcement’

Hacker Paige Thompson Could Face 45 Years in Prison — ‘Suicide by Law Enforcement’

Capital One hacker Paige A. Thompson has been found guilty.  But it has to be said that Capital One’s security design was absolutely awful ...
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Amazon Echo Vulnerability Fixed, Privacy Shield, Capital One Data Breach Update

Amazon Echo Exploit, Privacy Shield, Capital One Data Breach Update

In episode 134 for August 17th 2020: Details on new critical vulnerabilities found in Amazon Echo devices, what the end of the Privacy Shield framework means EU citizens personal data, and new ...
Podcast-Ep-2.1- ML, Automation & ShiftLeft at CapitalOne — A conversation with Vincent Weafer

Podcast-Ep-2.1- ML, Automation & ShiftLeft at CapitalOne — A conversation with Vincent Weafer

Podcast-Ep-2.1- ML, Automation & ShiftLeft at CapitalOne — A conversation with Vincent Weaferhttps://medium.com/media/d9752cdc858ba8e31c8a1e8e4b8dba93/hrefVincent Weafer, SVP Security Engineering at Capital One in a conversation with Alok Shukla, VP Product Management at ShiftLeft and host of ...
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Should GitHub Be Liable for the Capital One Hack?

Probably the dumbest questions you can ask a lawyer—particularly in the wake of a massive data breach—is, “Can I sue?” The answer is almost always, “Yes.” And what would you sue for? ...
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Capital One Data Breach, Equifax Settlement Payouts, Nextdoor App Scams

This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for August 5th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: everything you need to know about the Capital One data breach, changes ...
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What’s in YOUR Wallet? A Tepid Defense of Capital One

It started with an e-mail to a Capital One “responsible disclosure” email address early Wednesday, July 17, at 1:25 a.m. The note was short and cryptic. It simply said that “there appears ...
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The Capital One Data Breach and what can you do to Protect Yourself

In one of the biggest data breaches, a hacker by the name Paige Thompson gained access to more than 140,000 Social Security numbers, 1 million Canadian Social Insurance numbers and 80,000 bank ...
Capital One notified of data breach

Woman arrested after Capital One hack spills personal info on 106 million credit card applicants

The FBI has arrested a 33-year-old software engineer in Seattle as part of an investigation into a massive data breach at financial services company Capital One. The post Woman arrested after Capital ...