personally identifiable information – PossibleThreat Articles

In part 2 of our series on child identity theft, we examine the signs their PII might be compromised and how to reclaim your child’s identity if it is. We also list ways to protect their data and ID in the future.

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Tags: child identity fraud child identity theft familiar fraud identity compromise identity fraud identity theft new account fraud personally identifiable information reclaim child identity reclaim identity

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Child identity theft, part 1: On familiar fraud

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Awareness, child identity fraud, child identity theft, cyberbullying, familiar fraud, fraud, id theft, identity theft, personally identifiable information, PII

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:17:19 +0000

In this two-part series on child identity theft, we shed light on the growing problem of familiar fraud, where those entrusted with a minor’s information are the very ones who abuse it.

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Awareness

Tags: child identity fraud child identity theft cyberbullying familiar fraud fraud ID theft identity theft personally identifiable information PII

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Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

February 19, 2020 0 Comments amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Amazon web services, amazon web services (aws) storage bucket, Android, AWS, breach, CCPA, Cloud, cloud storage, credit card fraud, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, financial fraud, identity theft, iOS, leak, Mobile, personally identifiable information, phishing, photo apps, photosquared, PII, port scanning, Privacy, s3 database, security threats, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:49:20 +0000

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/v6L-VwD68-Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sensitive plastic surgery images exposed online

February 18, 2020 0 Comments amazon, Amazon web services, AWS, aws bucket, Cloud Security, cloud storage, data leak, data loss, data protection, exposed data, medical data, medical images, next motion, online privacy, personally identifiable information, PII, plastic surgery, Privacy, security threats, vpnMentor

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:04:56 +0000

Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3bHx9OL42rQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google forced to reveal anonymous reviewer’s details

February 17, 2020 0 Comments australia, bad reviews, fraudulent reviews, Google, google reviews, Law & order, lawsuit, personally identifiable information, PII, Privacy

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:02:28 +0000

A court has forced Google to reveal the details of an anonymous poster who published an unpalatable review of a dentist.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/d4sEoG9Kawk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency

February 17, 2020 0 Comments california consumer protection act, CCPA, consumer online privacy rights act, copra, data protection, facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Government security, kirsten gillibrand, Law & order, online privacy, personal data, personally identifiable information, PII, Privacy, selling data

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:55:15 +0000

The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mOUsx7W00QI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Business in the front, party in the back: backdoors in elastic servers expose private data

January 17, 2020 0 Comments AWS, aws buckets, cloud database, cloud databases, cloud infrastructure, elastic databases, elastic servers, insecure cloud, pacs, personally identifiable information, port 9200, Threat spotlight

Credit to Author: Vasilios Hioureas| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:58:47 +0000

It’s all too easy to discover data leaks online, especially in cloud services. We take a look at misconfigurations in elastic servers that lead to exposed data on the Internet.

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Threat spotlight

Tags: aws AWS buckets cloud database cloud databases cloud infrastructure elastic databases elastic servers insecure cloud pacs personally identifiable information port 9200

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How to protect yourself from doxing

October 25, 2019 0 Comments dox, doxer, doxing, how-tos, ip address, mobile vpns, online privacy, password manager, personal data, personally identifiable information, Privacy, Social engineering, social media, vpn, vpns, whois

Credit to Author: Osama Tahir| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:37:31 +0000

Doxing, or collecting and spreading private information about a user online, is a form of cyber harassment, stalking, and even a potential threat to physical safety. Here’s what you can do to protect yourself against it.

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How-tos

Tags: dox doxer doxing IP address mobile VPNs online privacy password manager personal data personally identifiable information privacy Social Engineering social media vpn VPNs WHOIS

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