Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who've had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn't theirs. In both ...
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that ...
Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax

Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax

Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit ...
Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords

Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords

How much is your payroll data worth? Probably a lot more than you think. One financial startup that's targeting the gig worker market is offering up to $500 to anyone willing to ...
Experian’s Credit Freeze Security is Still a Joke

Experian’s Credit Freeze Security is Still a Joke

In 2017, KrebsOnSecurity showed how easy it is for identity thieves to undo a consumer's request to freeze their credit file at Experian, one of the big three consumer credit bureaus in ...
Reasons Why the Security Industry is Protecting the Wrong Thing

Reasons Why the Security Industry is Protecting the Wrong Thing

Article by Paul German, CEO, Certes Networks Why is it that the security industry talks about network security, but data breaches? It’s clear that something needs to change, and according to Paul German, CEO, ...
Why & Where You Should You Plant Your Flag

Why & Where You Should You Plant Your Flag

Several stories here have highlighted the importance of creating accounts online tied to your various identity, financial and communications services before identity thieves do it for you. This post examines some of ...
Equifax Data Breach: Look Out For These Suspicious Domains

Equifax Data Breach: Look Out For These Suspicious Domains

| | Equifax, Hack, Phishing
Equifax, one of the three major credit bureaus in U.S. made a disclosure on Sept 7th that they suffered a massive data breach on July 29th, 2017. They reported an estimated 143 ...

Bryson Koehler, Equifax CTO, Discusses the Road Ahead in Data Security Infrastructure

Byson Koehler, the Equifax CTO and CISO, delivered the keynote at DevSecOps Days during the 2020 RSAC. Equifax contributed to multiple sessions and panels during the conference. The message was consistent: "Yes, ...

Chinese Hackers, Coronavirus Phishing Attacks, How to Stay (Almost) Anonymous Online

In episode 97 of our monthly show we discuss how Chinese hackers caused the Equifax data breach, new coronavirus phishing attacks to be aware of, and how to stay (almost) anonymous online ...