Sen. Ron Wyden – Computer Security Articles

Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

January 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, annualcreditreport.com, data breaches, Experian, jenya kushnir, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sen. Ron Wyden, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:05:15 +0000

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number.

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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

May 18, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, biometrics, blake hall, cyberscoop, Facial Recognition, Federal Trade Commission, ftc chair lina khan, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, sen. alex padilla, sen. cory booker, sen. edward markey, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, tonya riley

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 16:55:40 +0000

Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me.

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Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill

March 31, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, apple, Bloomberg, bug, discord, Facebook, instagram, lapsus$, meta, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Sen. Ron Wyden, snapchat, Twitter, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:54:45 +0000

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes.

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IRS: Selfies Now Optional, Biometric Data to Be Deleted

February 22, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, irs, login.gov, Sen. Ron Wyden, u.s. general services administration

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:50:33 +0000

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said Monday that taxpayers are no longer required to provide facial scans to create an account online at irs.gov. In lieu of providing biometric data, taxpayers can now opt for a live video interview with ID.me, the privately-held Virginia company that runs the agency’s identity proofing system. The IRS also said any biometric data already shared with ID.me would be permanently deleted over the next few weeks, and any biometric data provided for new signups will be destroyed after an account is created.

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IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access

February 7, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, id.me, Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Washington Post, u.s. general services administration

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 20:56:52 +0000

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency’s website. The reversal comes as privacy experts and lawmakers have been pushing the IRS and other federal agencies to find less intrusive methods for validating one’s identity with the U.S. government online.

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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data

February 28, 2020 admin FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, Joseph Cox, New York Times, Securus Technologies, Sen. Ron Wyden, The Coming Storm, vice.com, Wall Street Journal

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:12:10 +0000

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among the largest the FCC has ever levied, critics say the penalties don’t go far enough to deter wireless carriers from continuing to sell customer location data.

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FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services

July 11, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Adav Noti, Campaign Legal Center, Dan Petalas, Defending Digital Campaigns, Department of Homeland Security, Eric Geller, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Federal Election Commission, Garvey Schubert Barer, Microsoft Corp., Politico, Sen. Ron Wyden, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, The New York Times

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:41:21 +0000

The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today companies can offer discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided they already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election.

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AT&T, Sprint, Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

June 19, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, Blake Reid, Carnegie Mellon University, Karen Zacharia, Locaid, LocationSmart, Robert Xiao, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Timothy P. McKone, University of Colorado School of Law, Verizon, Zumigo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:03:44 +0000

In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded to requests from a U.S. senator for more details about how the carriers are managing access to this extremely sensitive information. While three out of four providers said they had cancelled data sharing agreements with some of the offending companies, only one — Verizon — pledged to terminate all of them and initiate a wholesale review of their location data-sharing practices.

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