Individuals at Risk
Identity Theft
Regulators Slam Wells Fargo for Identity Theft: For years, some Wells Fargo employees subscribed the bank’s customers to products they didn’t request, and that practice has now triggered $185 million in fines. BankInfoSecurity, September 9, 2016
Cyber Privacy
Location Privacy: The Purview of the Rich and Indigent: I’d just finished parking my car in the covered garage at Reagan National Airport just across the river from Washington, D.C. when I noticed a dark green minivan slowly creeping through the row behind me.

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Privacy
Internet Tracking Has Moved Beyond Cookies to Fingerprinting: Chances are you know you’re being tracked online. Most of us are at the point where we’re not surprised when an ad for something we searched for on one site appears on the next site we visit.

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Privacy
Why you should think twice before posting that picture on social media: Posting and sharing photos online seems innocuous, but you could be inadvertently leaking sensitive business and personal information, according to experts.

Individuals at Risk
Identity Theft
SocialSecurity Admin backtracks on txt msg requirement for e-acct: The U.S. Social Security Administration says it is reversing a newly enacted policy that required a cell phone number from all Americans who wished to manage their retirement benefits at ssa.

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Update
Got Microsoft? Time to Patch Your Windows: Microsoft churned out a bunch of software updates today fix some serious security problems with Windows and other Microsoft products like Internet Explorer (IE), Edge and Office.

Individuals at Risk
Identity Theft
Banner Health Breach Affects 3.7 Million: Arizona-based Banner Health, which operates 29 hospitals, says it’s notifying 3.7 million individuals that their data was exposed in a “sophisticated cyberattack.” The organization has hired a forensics firm to investigate the attack after taking steps to block the attackers and contacting law enforcement officials.

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Fraud
Dark Patterns are designed to trick you (and they’re all over the Web): It happens to the best of us. After looking closely at a bank statement or cable bill, suddenly a small, unrecognizable charge appears. Fine print sleuthing soon provides the answer—somehow, you accidentally signed up for a service.

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Privacy
Hackers penetrate Illinois voter registration database: SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Board of Elections’ online voter registration system remained down Thursday afternoon in the wake of a cyberattack last week.

Individuals at Risk
Cyber Update
Microsoft Update Doesn’t Quite Fix Decades-Old Printer Bug in Windows; Will Warn Users Who Can Say No: Printers. They can be the bane of every home office or small business, but not just when they jam or run out of paper or toner.

Earlier this week I reported on a potentially serious Pokémon Go security issue that Niantic, the game’s developer, was given full access to your Google account when the app was installed on iOS devices.

As suspected, this was an bug in the user registration process.