Individuals at Risk
Identity Theft
America’s JobLink Suffers Security Breach. PII of job seekers from 10 states compromised: A third-party hacker exploited a flaw in America’s JobLink application code to access the information of job seekers from 10 states.
Cyber Security News of the Week, March 26, 2017
Cyber Security News of the Week, March 19, 2017
Cyber Security News of the Week, March 12, 2017
Cyber Security News of the Week, March 5, 2017

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Warning
130+ Android apps on Google Play found with malware. Did developers use infected computers?: More than 130 Android apps on the Google Play store have been found to contain malicious coding, possibly because the developers were using infected computers, according to security researchers.
Cyber Security News of the Week, February 5, 2017

Individuals at Risk
Identity Theft
Identity fraud rises 16% to record high: The number of identity fraud victims increased by sixteen percent (rising to 15.4 million U.S. consumers) in the last year, according to Javelin Strategy & Research. Their study found that despite the efforts of the industry, fraudsters successfully adapted to net two million more victims this year with the amount fraudsters took rising by nearly one billion dollars to $16 billion.
Cyber Security News of the Week, January 29, 2017

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Update
WordPress 4.7.2 Update Fixes XSS, SQL Injection Bugs: Developers with WordPress fixed three security issues this week, including a cross-site scripting and a SQL injection vulnerability, with the latest version of the CMS. ThreatPost, January 27, 2017
Cyber Warning
Remote attackers can force Samsung Galaxy devices into never-ending reboot loop: A single SMS can force Samsung Galaxy devices into a crash and reboot loop, and leave the owner with no other option than to reset it to factory settings and lose all data stored on it.
Cyber Security News of the Week, January 22, 2017

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Privacy
You’ve probably never heard of this creepy genealogy site. But it knows a lot about you: Early Tuesday morning, Anna Brittain got a text from her sister: Did she know about Familytreenow.com? The relatively unknown site, which presents itself as a free genealogy resource, seemed to know an awful lot about her.
Cyber Security News of the Week, January 15, 2017
Cyber Security News of the Week, January 8, 2017

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Privacy
People Are Praising Pope Francis for Taking Cybersecurity Very Seriously: He has 10.2 million followers on Twitter, opened an Instagram account last year, has met with tech executives, sold his old iPad for a good price, and addressed mankind’s pervasive use of gadgets in his teachings.