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🤔Are People-Search Removal Tools Effective?

The Inefficiency of People-Search Removal Tools, Massive Data Breach Impacting U.S. Citizens

| | Confidently, Consumer Reports, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, DeleteMe, Digital Privacy, EasyOptOuts, Episodes, Hackers, idx, Information Security, Infosec, Kanary, Optery, People Search, People-Search Removal Tool, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Privacy Law, privacy laws, ReputationDefender, security, social security number, ssn, technology, US Privacy Law, Weekly Edition
In episode 342, we discuss the effectiveness of people-search removal tools like DeleteMe and Reputation Defender, based on a study by Consumer Reports. We also cover how almost every American’s social security ...
Shared Security Podcast
DoJ, FBI, IRS Make Empty Boast: SSNDOB ‘Seized’

DoJ, FBI, IRS Make Empty Boast: SSNDOB ‘Seized’

| | Cyprus, DOJ, FBI, Florida, Identity Theft, IRS, not the first time they just put a random seized photo on a domain then do a press release, SB Blogwatch, ssn, SSNDOB
Feds are gloating over their “seizure” of the notorious SSNDOB marketplace, which traded in stolen personal information. But the action seems too little, too late ...
Security Boulevard
‘Glitch’ in Illinois’ PUA System Blamed for Exposing SSNs, Private Data

‘Glitch’ in Illinois’ PUA System Blamed for Exposing SSNs, Private Data

| | Featured Articles, Illinois, PUA, ssn
Government officials said that a glitch in the State of Illinois’ Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program exposed thousands of people’s Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and other private data. Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokesperson ...
The State of Security
Javelin

Scraping Social Security Numbers on the Web

| | Featured Articles, security, Social Security, ssn
One of the most accredited forms of validation for a citizen’s identity is a Social Security Number. A Social Security Number is a significant piece of government-issued identification in the United States ...
The State of Security
26.5 million Comcast Xfinity customers had their partial home addresses and SSNs exposed

26.5 million Comcast Xfinity customers had their partial home addresses and SSNs exposed

| | comcast, Featured Articles, IT Security and Data Protection, ssn, Xfinity
Poor security measures have reportedly put the personal details of over 26.5 million Comcast Xfinity customers at risk, a researcher has revealed. The post 26.5 million Comcast Xfinity customers had their partial ...
The State of Security

Where The ‘Bleep’ Did My Identity Go?

| | confidential, Identity Theft, Mac, Password, PC, Privacy, Restricted Data, security, social security number, ssn
By Judi Lynn Lake I am a die-hard Mac user. Have been for over twenty years and it only gets better. The PC certainly has its place but for creative projects well ...
Zen One