What to do if your SSN is found on the Dark Web Discovering that your Social Security Number has been exposed on the dark web is no doubt concerning , but taking decisive, informed action can significantly mitigate potential damage. Sadly, it’s impossible to remove a SSN from the dark web...
USDoD wanted tosell this datafor the low price of $3.5 million. Ironically, before USDoD could profit from the theft, another threat actor, Fenice,swiped the dataand released it on the dark web. How bad is it really? According to the security organizationVx-Underground,...
Cybercriminals claim to be selling the Social Security numbers of babies on the dark web. The personal details of children -- including dates of birth and mother's maiden names -- have been sought after for years. Now, researchers have found an ad on a forum for the sale of data claimin...
Dark Social and Web TrafficMatt Buchanan
or “What street did you grow up on?” But these are common security questions to access your bank account and other financial institutions. Warning signs of a social media quiz scam: A quiz poses unrelated and deeply personal questions. You recognize the questions from options you’ve had ...
The clear, social, and dark web have lately been identified as rich sources of valuable cyber-security information that -given the appropriate tools and methods-may be identified, crawled and subsequently leveraged to actionable cyber-threat intelligence. In this work, we focus on the information ...
These dark sides can be seen in issues such as insufficient data security, influences on users’ mental health or waves of negative publicity affecting a company’s reputation. Our research focuses on a more specific aspect of entrepreneurial development, media use and the entrepreneurial self. In...
It’s been ten days since the Social Security annual report to Congress has come out. I’ve been waiting for the devotees of SS to write something cheery about the report. For the most part the cheerleaders have been silent. That’s with good reason. The report stunk. There’s nothing...
To this end, social science research needs to pay special attention to the formation and responses to the negative effects of social networks to prevent their erosion of social security and social justice. 2.3. The ideal typology of the multiple effects of social networks Now, we propose an ...
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