Category: equifax

It doesn’t matter if China hacked Equifax

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In attorney general, bad password, badpassword, business, cfpb, China, class action lawsuit, data breach, equifax, fdic, federal reserve, gadgetry, gear, golden parachute, hackers, infosec, Internet, mick mulvaney, Mobile, opinion, personal computing, personalcomputing, Politics, Security, services, Tech, william barr, wordpress

[ad_1] It was a message of PR reprieve for the skinsuits at Equifax, who spend their life cycles profiting from tracking and trading our personal and financial information (and we’re powerless to stop them). Especially now as we’re seeing reports about how four Chinese hackers “took down Equifax.” That sure sounds a lot better (for […]

Senators ask credit agencies why they don’t report FBI data requests

Post author By Randall
Post date December 14, 2019
Categories In credit, equifax, experian, fbi, gear, Internet, national security letter, nsl, Politics, Privacy, Tech, transparency, transunion

[ad_1] There could be good reason to disclose those data requests. Previously released documents have revealed that Equifax, Experian and TransUnion received a “large number” of 750 NSLs, and the senators note that these companies received “dozens” of letters ending gag orders on individual requests. That’s a lot of vital personal data (including purchase habits […]

Security fails we’re kinda thankful for

Post author By Randall
Post date November 28, 2019
Categories In ajit pai, atm, badpassword, election security, equifax, face unlock, Facebook, fcc, gear, net neutrality, pixel 4, Security, Tech, thanksgiving, voting machines

[ad_1] What the fail With the Pixel 4 face unlock debacle, you really can say that Google’s Android security team did not check itself before it wrecked itself. What we’re thankful for here is the BBC journalist, who probably does not have narcolepsy, but instead pretended to be asleep with his review copy of a […]

Equifax reportedly close to $700 million data breach settlement

Post author By Randall
Post date July 19, 2019
Categories In breach, business, equifax, Politics, Tech

[ad_1] Remember that time Equifax had a data breach and leaked an incredible amount of information — addresses, social security numbers and even driver’s licenses — on more than 143 million people in the US alone? That was revealed nearly two years ago, and tonight media reports suggest the company is closing in on a […]