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Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web

A posting from naked security titled ” Cracked Uber accounts tumble to 40 cents on the dark web”  by Lisa Vaas

emember those cracked Uber accounts that were selling for as little as $1 on the dark web a few months ago?

Well, welcome to the Midsummer Madness Sale: prices have been slashed, and now, they’re going for the low, low price of only 40 cents!

I know what you’re thinking: With these prices, the dark-web markets selling other people’s accounts must be CRAZY!

(Actually, so are you if you actually buy these things. It’s illegal, and your purchase could buy you a world of trouble.)

Motherboard, which first picked up on the Uber account sale in March, now reports that the accounts are not only still being sold; now, valid email/password logins for Uber are selling for less than half of what they had been.

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Using ambient sound as a two-factor authentication system

A posting from naked security titled  ” Using ambient sound as a two-factor authentication system” by Lee Munson

We know that many of us are no good at choosing our own passwords. That’s why companies are increasingly looking to bolster their own website security through additional authentication methods.

To that end, we’ve seen many different forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) employed – John Shier wrote an excellently detailed article on the topic last year in which he noted that each of the common 2FA optionshave their disadvantages.

His conclusion was that “true” 2FA, using a separate token, was probably the best way forward – but that such a system would likely not be free and would leave people with an annoyingly large amount of tokens to manage.

While it’s better for your security to take advantage of 2FA everywhere it is available, some people see it as an inconvenience nonetheless – either because they need to lug tokens around or because of the few seconds it takes to generate a code or type in a password received by SMS.

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EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy gets harsh criticism from data protection advocate

A posting from Naked Security on Cybersecurty  Strategy :

A top EU data privacy advocate has criticised the European Union’s plans to combat cybercrime, saying they don’t provide enough protection for personal data.

In the same statement, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx suggested that too little attention has been paid to existing regulations and agencies, and that it would be useful to have tighter definitions of what exactly the European Commission means by “cybercrime” and related terms.

The statement comes as an official “opinion” document [PDF] responding to the EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy [PDF] plan.

The strategy was issued in February alongside proposals for a set of unified network and information security rules, referred to as the “NIS Directive [PDF]“.

The strategy document got a lukewarm reception at the time, with general approval that the EC was heading in the right direction but worries that the proposals were too vague and open-ended. The opinions from the EDPS seem to echo this, welcoming the existence of the strategy but pointing out some potential problems.

 

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US law enforcers want to see a kill switch on our mobile phones

A posting from Naked Security on mobile phones:

US law enforcers are demanding a kill switch on our smartphones that would theoretically brick them after they’re stolen.

New York’s top prosecutor, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, together with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, put out a statement on Thursday about the launch of an initiative devoted to drying up the secondary market on which stolen devices are sold.

The initiative, dubbed Secure Our Smartphones (SOS), is a coalition of law enforcers from across the country: state attorneys general, district attorneys, major city police chiefs, state and city comptrollers, as well as public safety activists and consumer advocates.

The announcement came on the same day that Gascón and Schneiderman co-hosted a “Smartphone Summit” with representatives from smartphone makers Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft.

Schneiderman said in the statement that about 113 smartphones are stolen or lost every minute in the US, with many of the thefts turning violent.

Here’s how the SOS coalition describes this “epidemic”:

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Phishers try flattery with Facebook Page owners

An interesting article in Naked Security on Phishers try flattery with Facebook Page owners:

Beware, fanboys and fangirls: phishers are targeting Facebook Page owners with a bogus message supposedly sent from Facebook Security.

According to Hoax-Slayer, the scam claims that Facebook is rolling out a new security feature to protect Page owners.

This supposed new security feature is dubbed the “Fan Page Verification Program”.

It does a nice job of flattering suck-up to entice victims into coughing up their Facebook login details, telling targets that they’ve had ever so many stolen Pages lately, and they simply can’t think of what to do about it except just, well, throw up their hands and Delete them all – yes, Delete those bad, bad Pages, with a capital “D”.

 

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