Privacy

Federal Reserve Shares Tips On Mitigating Synthetic Identity Fraud Image: Jesús Rocha The U.S. Federal Reserve today issued guidance on how financial organizations from the United States can mitigate payment fraud attempts scammers carry out with the help of synthetic identity accounts.  The white paper published today by the Federal Reserve on mitigating synthetic identity payments Read more…

Huge shortage of infocomm professionals in Singapore: Vivian Balakrishnan Minister says S’poreans must be prepared to train and reskill to secure the jobs IRENE THAM, TECH EDITORJun 22, 2020 06:00 am Jobs are available for Singaporeans in the infocomm space over the next three years, with the Republic facing a Read more…

The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’ Fresno Chief of Police Jerry Dyer inside the Fresno Police Department’s crime center. (Nick Otto/For The Washington Post) FRESNO, Calif. — While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters Read more…

A Tattoo and an Etsy Shirt Led Cops to Arrest Woman Accused of Burning Cop Cars An elaborate open-source intelligence investigation shows the potential danger of posting protest photos online. IMAGE: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Protests over the police killing of George Floyd have swept the country for weeks. Thousands of people Read more…

S$20 million in vouchers to be distributed to 400,000 households Bookmark SINGAPORE: Up to 400,000 Singaporean households – or about 30 per cent of Singapore households – will soon be given a set of vouchers that can be used at more than 2,000 neighbourhood shops and hawker stalls.  Under the Read more…

39SHARESShareTweet Looters across the US boycotting protests against the death of George Floyd are continuing to ransack businesses small and large across the country, with Apple Stores becoming an increasingly popular target for thieves out to cause carnage. During the four Apple Store burglaries The Apple Post has reported on over the Read more…

Many well-known and heavily used web sites are using a fraud protection script that port scans your local computer for remote access programs. Last weekend, news heavily circulated that eBay.com was port scanning visitors’ computers when they browsed their site. This port scanning was conducted by the LexisNexis’ ThreatMetrix fraud protection script used to detect potentially Read more…

Mercedes-Benz Data Leak – Luckily for Car Giant, Access Control Gaff Didn’t Expose Secret Data – This Time   Don’t forget to lock down online shared code repositories, as Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler AG learned the hard way after a researcher was able to access nearly 9 GB of software Read more…

A Deep Dive into Razer Singapore’s Privacy Policy – Data Collection Methods With the recent news that Razer Singapore would be giving out 5 million free surgical masks while ramping its production line to produce up to 10 million masks per month, this couldn’t have come at a better time. Read more…