You want my identity, help yourself. Lifelock can suck it!

You're in good company. The FTC agrees with you.

That's why I'm not with LifeLock

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LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False

For Release: March 9, 2010

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LifeLock, Inc. has agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that the company used false claims to promote its identity theft protection services, which it widely advertised by displaying the CEO’s Social Security number on the side of a truck.

In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock and its principals will be barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information they collect from customers.

“While LifeLock promised consumers complete protection against all types of identity theft, in truth, the protection it actually provided left enough holes that you could drive a truck through it,” said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.


https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/03/lifelock-will-pay-12-million-settle-charges-ftc-35-states 




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No ****!!! I do feel sorry for anybody that has had their identity stolen, it is just that I strongly dislike corporations employing fear tactics to get people to spend their hard earned money.

Hackers attack 20 million accounts on Alibaba's Taobao shopping site

02/04/2016

BEIJING (Reuters) - Hackers in China attempted to access over 20 million active accounts on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Taobao e-commerce website using Alibaba's own cloud computing service, according to a state media report posted on the Internet regulator's website.

Analysts said the report from The Paper led to the price of Alibaba's U.S.-listed shares falling as much as 3.7 percent in late Wednesday trade.

An Alibaba spokesman on Thursday said the company detected the attack in "the first instance", reminded users to change passwords, and worked closely with the police investigation.

Chinese companies are grappling a sharp rise in the number of cyber attacks, and cyber security experts say firms have a long way to go before defenses catch up to U.S. counterparts.

In the latest case, hackers obtained a database of 99 million usernames and passwords from a number of websites, according to a separate report on a website managed by the Ministry of Public Security.



http://www.businessinsider.com/r-hackers-attack-20-million-accounts-on-alibabas-taobao-shopping-site-2016-2 







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Best to just to away with social security entirely.

Hackers publish contact info of 20,000 FBI employees

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN, 8:34 PM ET, Mon February 8, 2016

Washington (CNN)Hackers, making good on a threat, published contact information for 20,000 FBI employees Monday afternoon, just one day after posting similar data on almost 10,000 Department of Homeland Security employees.

The hackers, tweeting from the account @DotGovs, claim they obtained the details by hacking into a Department of Justice database.

The hackers boasted on Twitter, "FBI and DHS info is dropped and that's all we came to do, so now its time to go, bye folks! #FreePalestine."

The information contained names, titles, phone numbers and email addresses. After the hackers published the data on the DHS employees on Sunday, they tweeted, "Well folks, it looks like @TheJusticeDept has finally realized their computer has been breached after 1 week."

The Justice Department is investigating the hack.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/politics/hackers-fbi-employee-info/index.html 



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Number of U.S. government 'cyber incidents' jumps in 2015

By Dustin Volz

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government was hit by more than 77,000 "cyber incidents" like data thefts or other security breaches in fiscal year 2015, a 10 percent increase over the previous year, according to a White House audit.

Part of the uptick stems from federal agencies improving their ability to identify and detect incidents, the annual performance review from the Office and Management and Budget said.

The report, released on Friday, defines cyber incidents broadly as “a violation or imminent threat of violation of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard computer security practices.” Only a small number of the incidents would be considered as significant data breaches.

National security and intelligence officials have long warned that cyber attacks are among the most serious threats facing the United States. President Barack Obama asked Congress last month for $19 billion for cyber security funding across the government in his annual budget request, an increase of $5 billion over the previous year.

The government's Office of Personnel Management was victim of a massive hack that began in 2014 and was detected last year. Some 22 million current and former federal employees and contractors in addition to family members had their Social Security numbers, birthdays, addresses and other personal data pilfered in the breach.

That event prompted the government to launch a 30-day “cyber security sprint” to boost cyber security within each federal agency by encouraging adoption of multiple-factor authentication and addressing other vulnerabilities.

“Despite unprecedented improvements in securing federal information resources … malicious actors continue to gain unauthorized access to, and compromise, federal networks, information systems, and data,” the report said.

(Reporting by Dustin Volz; Editing by Alistair Bell)


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/number-u-government-cyber-incidents-205016113.html 





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U.S., Canada issue joint alert on 'ransomware' after hospital attacks

By Jim Finkle

13 hours ago

Hackers forced Kentucky hospital into ‘internal state of emergency’

(Reuters) - The United States and Canada on Thursday issued a rare joint cybeer alert, warning against a recent surge in extortion attacks that infect computers with viruses known as "ransomware," which encrypt data and demand payments for it to be unlocked.

The warning follows reports from several private security firms that they expect the crisis to worsen, because hackers are getting more sophisticated and few businesses have adopted proper security measures to thwart such attacks.

"Infections can be devastating to an individual or organization, and recovery can be a difficult process that may require the services of a reputable data recovery specialist," the two governments said in the alert, distributed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre.

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http://news.yahoo.com/u-canada-issue-joint-alert-ransomware-hospital-attacks-023013135--finance.html 



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Adobe readies emergency patch for Flash zero-day bug exploited in the wild

The zero-day vulnerability allows attackers to take complete control of a victim's system.

By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | April 6, 2016 -- 10:38 GMT (03:38 PDT) | Topic: Security

Adobe has told users that an emergency patch is being prepared for a Flash zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild which can give attackers complete control.

On Tuesday, the tech giant said in a security advisory that CVE-2016-1019, the zero-day security flaw, is a critical issue which exists in affects Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier. The bug impacts Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome operating systems.

The Flash zero-day "could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system" if exploited, according to Adobe.

Adobe has received reports that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, which is bad news for users of older software. Until an update and fix is released to patch the flaw, anyone actively using Adobe Flash 21.0.0.197 and earlier is vulnerable to attack.

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http://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-readies-emergency-patch-for-flash-zero-day-bug-exploited-in-the-wild/ 







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SWIFT Network Aware of Multiple Cyber Fraud Incidents

Tuesday, 26 Apr 2016 08:47 AM

SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day, warned its customers on Monday that it was aware of "a number of recent cyber incidents" where attackers had sent fraudulent messages over its system.

The disclosure came as law enforcement authorities in Bangladesh and elsewhere investigated the February cyber theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. SWIFT has acknowledged that the scheme involved altering SWIFT software on Bangladesh Bank's computers to hide evidence of fraudulent transfers.

Monday's statement from SWIFT marked the first acknowledgement that the Bangladesh Bank attack was not an isolated incident but one of several recent criminal schemes that aimed to take advantage of the global messaging platform used by some 11,000 financial institutions.



http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Markets/swift-hackers-cyber-fraud/2016/04/26/id/725732/ 






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Hundreds of Spotify credentials appear online – users report accounts hacked, emails changed

Posted yesterday by Sarah Perez (@sarahintampa)

A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify accounts were compromised only days ago. However, Spotify says that it “has not been hacked” and its “user records are secure.”

It’s unclear, then, where these particular account details were acquired, given that they are specific to Spotify, rather than a set of generic credentials that just happen to work on Spotify.

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http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/25/hundreds-of-spotify-credentials-appear-online-users-report-accounts-hacked-emails-changed/ 




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Anonymous Attacks Greek Central Bank, Says 30-Day Global Hack to Follow

by Reuters
May 4 2016, 6:13 am ET

Greece's central bank became the target of a cyber attack by activist hacking group Anonymous on Tuesday which disrupted service of its website, a Bank of Greece official said on Wednesday.

"The attack lasted for a few minutes and was successfully tackled by the bank's security systems. The only thing that was affected by the denial-of-service attack was our website," the official said, declining to be named.

Anonymous originated in 2003, adopting the Guy Fawkes mask as their symbol for online hacking. The mask is a stylized portrayal of an oversized smile, red cheeks and a wide mustache upturned at both ends.

"Olympus will fall. A few days ago we declared the revival of operation Icarus. Today we have continuously taken down the website of the Bank of Greece," the group says in a video on You Tube.

"This marks the start of a 30-day campaign against central bank sites across the world."

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http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/anonymous-attacks-greek-central-bank-says-30-day-global-hack-n567601 







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Hackers are trading millions of Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo logins
Change your password right now. Like NOW!
By N. Ingraham
May 4 2016, 6:38pm ET

Source: Reuters

Email services including Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have fallen victim to a hack, exposing usernames and passwords for millions of users. According to Reuters, a huge data breach consisting of some 273.3 million online accounts has been reported by security expert Alex Holden of Hold Security. All told, the data breach contains 57 million accounts for the Russian email provider Mail.ru, along with 40 million Yahoo Mail credentials, 33 million Hotmail accounts and 24 million Gmail accounts.

In addition, the breach reportedly contains hundreds of thousands of German and Chinese email addresses as well as thousands of username / password combos that appear to belong to employees from US banking, manufacturing and retail companies.

Hold Security apparently came upon this data directly from the hacker, who was selling the data set for the curiously low sum of less than $1. Holden instead told the hacker that he would post "favorable comments" about him in various hacker forums; that was enough to get the hacker to turn the data over. About ten days ago, Hold Security started informing the companies affected of the data breach; the company's policy is to return stolen data to the companies affected.

It's worth noting that while tens of millions of Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts were affected, the total percentage of accounts compromised compared to the total in circulation is relatively small. Google recently announced that more than one billion people are using Gmail, for example. But given people's propensity to reuse passwords, this breach could have wider-reaching effects. Either way, better safe than sorry -- if you haven't changed your password recently, now is as good a time as any. Also, turn on two-factor authentication!


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http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/04/gmail-hotmail-yahoo-email-data-breach/ 





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Notice of Data Breach ———

You may have heard reports recently about a security issue involving LinkedIn. We would like to make sure you have the facts about what happened, what information was involved, and the steps we are taking to help protect you.

What Happened? ———

On May 17, 2016, we became aware that data stolen from LinkedIn in 2012 was being made available online. This was not a new security breach or hack. We took immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of all LinkedIn accounts that we believed might be at risk. These were accounts created prior to the 2012 breach that had not reset their passwords since that breach.

What Information Was Involved? ———

Member email addresses, hashed passwords, and LinkedIn member IDs (an internal identifier LinkedIn assigns to each member profile) from 2012.

What We Are Doing ———

We invalidated passwords of all LinkedIn accounts created prior to the 2012 breach that had not reset their passwords since that breach. In addition, we are using automated tools to attempt to identify and block any suspicious activity that might occur on LinkedIn accounts. We are also actively engaging with law enforcement authorities.

LinkedIn has taken significant steps to strengthen account security since 2012. For example, we now use salted hashes to store passwords and enable additional account security by offering our members the option to use two-step verification.

What You Can Do ———

We have several dedicated teams working diligently to ensure that the information members entrust to LinkedIn remains secure. While we do all we can, we always suggest that our members visit our Safety Center to learn about enabling two-step verification, and implementing strong passwords in order to keep their accounts as safe as possible. We recommend that you regularly change your LinkedIn password and if you use the same or similar passwords on other online services, we recommend you set new passwords on those accounts as well.

For More Information ———

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Trust & Safety team at [email protected]. To learn more visit our official blog.






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I suddenly have an avalanche of PM's.

Not to worry, I'll be clearing them out one by one.

Thanks




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Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts hacked

Brett Molina, USA TODAY 12:52 p.m. EDT June 6, 2016

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Having your social media accounts hacked can happen to any one. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg.

The Facebook CEO's accounts on Twitter and Pinterest were compromised by hackers, according to publishedreports. The accounts have since been secured.

A group called OurMine Team is claiming credit for the hack, citing Zuckerberg's credentials were discovered in a database of compromised LinkedIn accounts. The professional social network told millions of its users last month to change passwords after login information from as many as 100 million users swiped in 2012 surfaced on the internet.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/06/06/mark-zuckerbergs-social-media-accounts-hacked/85477432/?hootPostID=faec599064ec5e0cb9fc3d62fb69ae70 






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Hey man, don't come on this site talking commonsense, dude.
The Republicrats and Demicans can't handle it.

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fenderbendertex [OP] Did everything ever get straightened out?

How many hours did it take of your time?
Did you have to take any time off from work?
Did you have to hire an attorney?
Did you have to spend any money?

Topped for Fender

Russians steal research on Trump in hack of U.S. Democratic Party

WASHINGTON | By Dustin Volz and Emily Stephenson

Tue Jun 14, 2016 4:42pm EDT

Hackers believed to be working for the Russian government broke into the Democratic National Committee's computer network, spied on internal communications and accessed research on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the committee and security experts said on Tuesday.

Two separate groups entered the DNC's system, and one read email and chat communications for nearly a year before being detected, according to the committee and CrowdStrike, the cyber firm that helped clean up the breach.

Russian spies also targeted the networks of Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as the computers of some Republican political action committees, the Washington Post quoted U.S. officials as saying, although details were not available.

A Clinton campaign official said there was no evidence the campaign's information systems had been hacked.



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-hack-idUSKCN0Z0205 






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