Cyber Policy in the News
New Android malware can exfiltrate nearly everything you do on your phone.
Sophisticated Android malware tracks all your phone activities
Around 400 fiber-optic cables are responsible for transporting data for most of the world’s emails, text messages and phone calls.
Will Russia cut underwater internet cables? Military leaders warn of suspicious naval activity
After months of talk and planning, US Cyber Command is now just as important
THE HILL.com – Let’s say you wanted to send a secret letter and wanted to make sure your competitors couldn’t see it. You write it, seal it, and put it in the mail.
Except the post office is in Russia. Along with your ISP — internet service provider. And your email service provider. And your cell phone company. And your bank. Now substitute China for Russia. Read more…
The National Security Agency revealed a huge increase in the amount of call
NSA triples metadata collection numbers, sucking up over 500 million call records in 2017
The county mayor says no votes were changed, but a cybersecurity expert says that’s a premature assumption.
Tennessee Officials Are Trying To Get To The Bottom Of An Election Night Cyberattack
BLU phones sent a massive amount of data to firmware and data-mining provider.
Phone maker settles charges it let partner collect customers’ text messages
Unions have been trying to organize software engineers for decades, with little success. Here’s a look at the organizing campaign that might turn things around.
Long ago, the introduction of the Internet moved crime from physical to digital locations, where anti-fraud actors play a high-stakes game of detection and prevention, always working to stay one step ahead of fraudsters.
The battles of modern-day cybercrime follow the same pattern, with one major difference – cybercriminals are far more sophisticated than they were at the dawn of the internet age. Fraudsters are able to quickly change their attack vectors and strategies as needed, meaning that those of us in fraud detection and prevention are also continuously working to provide organizations with fraud protection they can depend on to keep them safe against all forms of online attacks.
As 2017 draws to a close, we here at Easy Solutions have been reflecting on the biggest fraud events of the year. These seven events changed the fraud landscap
e and left lasting effects on organizations and their outlook on security for years to come. Read More…