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Locking Your Social Security Number Can Protect You From Identity Theft – Here's How It Works

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-25 03:55:25

Credit freezes are your free shield against thieves. fstop123/Getty Images Your Social Security number is a crucial piece of personal information. It's used for everything from getting a new job to securing lines of credit, making it a prime target for identity thieves. This nine-digit number is linked to health benefits, taxes and more. As we see major breaches happen more and more often, protecting your SSN is more important than ever. You can pay for monitoring, but there is a tougher, free

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Becoming the person who does the thing

news.ycombinator.com Fred Rivett 2025-09-28 16:24:36

It can be disorienting when our beliefs shift. The world we helped create no longer exists, and our role in it transforms too. It can be unsettling, naturally. But that's kind of the point. Looking back at times when I held certain beliefs—about how the world works, and what my role in this story is—it can feel less like a mod was installed and more like an entirely new operating system was swapped in. Up until my late twenties, I could count the number of times I had been to the gym on one h

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Android’s anti-theft protections will soon become less annoying thanks to your smartwatch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-03 00:00:06

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is making its “Identity Check” anti-theft feature more convenient by integrating it with smartwatch proximity. This allows users to use their PIN or password as a fallback to biometrics, even outside a trusted location, as long as their watch is nearby. Expected to land in a future Android 16 quarterly release, the feature may only work with the Google Pixel Watch 3 and newer models. Android offers a number of optional theft protection features

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LinkedIn will require recruiters and executives to verify their identity to cut down on scams

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-11 20:00:40

LinkedIn will now require some users to verify their identity before they change job titles in an attempt to cut down on scams on the platform. The new identity verification rules will specifically apply to executives and recruiters who interact with job seekers or represent a company in one form or another. As part of these changes, LinkedIn says users who add or update their title to anything recruiter-related (recruiter, talent acquisition, etc.) will have to verify their workplace on their

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6NF File Format

news.ycombinator.com How To Become An Author 2025-10-13 07:49:08

Filename Extension: .6nf 1. Introduction 6NF File Format is a new bitemporal, sixth-normal-form (6NF)-inspired data exchange format designed for DWH and for reporting. It replaces complex hierarchical formats like XBRL, XML, JSON, and YAML. 2. Design Principles Database Friendly Flat Structure : No nested objects or arrays. No need for parsing 6NF Compatibility : Direct mapping to 6NF database tables. No need for normalization Bitemporal Database Compatibility : All data includes valid_fro

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Massive TransUnion breach leaks personal data of 4.4 million customers - what to do now

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-19 20:09:05

WhataWin/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways At least 4.4 million people have had their personal information stolen. I recommend you freeze your credit with all three credit bureaus. You should also enroll in an identity theft protection and credit monitoring service. If it seems like hardly a day can go by without a major security breach, you're not wrong. Adidas, Farmers Insurance, Google, and numerous other compa

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Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-22 16:00:35

The FBI and the Dutch Police have shut down the VerifTools marketplace for fraudulent identity documents after seizing servers in Amsterdam that hosted the online operation. VerifTools was a prominent platform that produced and intermediated the purchase of fake documents (e.g. driver's licenses, passports) that were used to bypass various identity verification systems or to assume an identity, either stolen or fabricated. The police note that such sites are used in bank fraud, phishing, helpd

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Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-22 12:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-23 03:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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Google is expanding a key anti-theft feature to make your apps more secure

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 22:43:51

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Android’s Identity Check feature is being expanded in the upcoming Android 16 QPR2 update to better protect your sensitive apps. The feature will now enforce biometric-only authentication for any app that uses the biometric prompt, removing the screen lock credential as a fallback. This optional security measure will prevent thieves who know your PIN from accessing sensitive apps when you’re outside of a trusted location. Late last year, Google announc

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Single Sign on for Furries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 20:42:51

Single Sign On for Furries Published Today If I were to bootstrap a furry convention today for its first year, without writing any code, I'd probably start with a square store to handle both online and in person transactions, a custom domain, a social media account, and an email address for any business communications. Check in for pre-registrations will be clunky, but for a 100-300 attendance event, it should be feasible. Disclosure: I have no personal experience with Square. I know people t

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Everything to know about UniFi OS Server

news.ycombinator.com Cody Deluisio 2025-12-09 02:09:02

UniFi OS Server is now available in Early Access, and it’s being promoted as a major advancement for MSPs and enterprise IT teams. But does it actually solve any problems we couldn’t already work around? Let’s break down what this release is, what it isn’t, and whether it brings real benefits to the table. What is UniFi OS Server? UniFi OS Server is a self-hosted platform that lets you run UniFi Network and select UniFi apps (currently InnerSpace and Identity) on your own hardware — no Dream M

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"If you can rack it, you can run UniFi OS" Ubiquiti self-hosted UniFi OS release

news.ycombinator.com Cody Deluisio 2025-12-09 08:09:02

UniFi OS Server is now available in Early Access, and it’s being promoted as a major advancement for MSPs and enterprise IT teams. But does it actually solve any problems we couldn’t already work around? Let’s break down what this release is, what it isn’t, and whether it brings real benefits to the table. What is UniFi OS Server? UniFi OS Server is a self-hosted platform that lets you run UniFi Network and select UniFi apps (currently InnerSpace and Identity) on your own hardware — no Dream M

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Apple @ Work: Why MDM isn’t enough to succeed with Macs

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-12-08 22:00:00

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Here’s how Android Identity Check will start taking advantage of your smartwatch (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-10 16:34:08

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Identity Check offers an extra layer of protection when someone steals both your phone and your PIN. By requiring biometrics, Identity Check attempts to limit the harm bad actors could do. Google is working to let you bypass that biometric requirement when your device is connected to a trusted smartwatch. We all want our devices to be secure, but practical considerations mean we’re often striking a balance between security and convenience. That’s not a ba

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Understanding the Complete Identity Management Ecosystem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 02:12:19

Confused by the growing identity management landscape? This comprehensive guide breaks down every IAM category—from traditional workforce identity to emerging AI agents. Learn how CIAM, PAM, Zero Trust, and 15+ other solutions connect in the modern security ecosystem. 🔐 Identity management has grown from simple password systems into a complex web of specialized tools and technologies. Each piece serves a specific purpose, but understanding how they all fit together can be confusing. This guide

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Solid protocol restores digital agency

news.ycombinator.com Bruce Schneier 2025-12-18 16:32:50

How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities collect, store, and trade your data, often without your knowledge or consent. It’s both redundant and inconsistent. You have hundreds, maybe thousands, of fragmented digital profiles that ofte

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Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 21:54:11

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer Jul 22 2025 You’re probably reading this because you’re using Pydantic yourself. Maybe you’re building a FastAPI application and hit a point where it started getting too big to manage, and you realized you need better separation of concerns. Perhaps you’ve started adopting a clean architecture or onion architecture kind of layering to keep business logic separate from application logic, aiming for better maintainability and testability. But Pydantic is st

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Android might soon trust your smartwatch to help verify your identity (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-26 21:58:29

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google may be working on smartwatch support for Android’s Identity Check feature. A connected watch could serve as a second authentication factor outside trusted locations. The feature was spotted in the latest version of Google Play Services beta. Google recently introduced a feature called Identity Check on Android 15 and later devices, designed to add extra protection from phone theft when you’re outside of predefined trusted locations. Now it looks l

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Qantas Data Breach Impacts 5.7 Million Customers. Here's What We Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-23 00:07:00

Qantas suffered a data breach that has impacted 5.7 million customers. Ryan Fletcher/Getty Images Qantas, Australia's largest airline, has confirmed that the personal information of 5.7 million customers was compromised in a data breach detected at the end of June. Bad actors gained access to customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, meal preferences and frequent flyer numbers via a third-party platform used by a Qantas call center. According to the airline, the stolen inf

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Qantas Contacted by Hackers Responsible for Data Breach Affecting Millions of Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-26 05:44:00

Qantas disclosed a cybersecurity incident on July 2 potentially affecting 6 million customers. Ryan Fletcher/Getty Images Qantas has been contacted by a cyber criminal claiming responsibility for the data breach that affected 6 million customers. A company spokesperson confirmed Qantas is working to validate this, adding that since it's a criminal matter, the company "won't be commenting any further on the detail of the contact." There's also no evidence that any of the stolen information has

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Qantas Breach Comprises Data of Up to 6 Million Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-08 16:25:00

Qantas disclosed a cybersecurity incident on July 2 potentially affecting 6 million customers. Ryan Fletcher/Getty Images Australian airline Qantas has disclosed a cyberattack potentially comprising the data of 6 million customers. Cybercriminals gained access to customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and frequent flyer numbers via a third-party platform used by a company call center, it said. In the wrong hands, this data could lead to phishing attacks orchestrated by ba

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Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

venturebeat.com Anurag Dodeja 2026-02-15 04:15:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more From passwords to passkeys to a veritable alphabet soup of other options — second-factor authentication (2FA)/one-time passwords (OTP), multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), silent network authentication (SNA) — when it comes to a preeminent or even preferred type of identity authentication, there is little consensus amo

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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-15 03:28:47

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks. Previously known as Worldcoin, World was created under Altman and Alex Blania’s Tools for Humanity. The organization says it can help distinguish between AI agents and human beings by scanning users’ eyeballs and creating a unique identity for them on the blockchain. In a lengthy post, Buterin noted that World’s approach of using zero-know

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Cisco warns of max severity RCE flaws in Identity Services Engine

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-19 16:20:56

Cisco has published a bulletin to warn about two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-20281 and CVE-2025-20282, are rated with max severity (CVSS score: 10.0). The first impacts ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.4 and 3.3, while the second affects only version 3.4. The root cause of CVE-2025-20281 is an insufficient validation of user-supplied

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3 key takeaways from the Scattered Spider attacks on insurance firms

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-02-19 21:02:12

Scattered Spider continues to dominate the headlines, with the latest news linking the hackers to attacks on U.S. insurance giant Aflac, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and Erie Insurance, disclosed through SEC Form 8-K filings which indicate the theft of sensitive customer data and operational disruption. This comes at the same time that Google Threat Intelligence Group shared that it “is now aware of multiple intrusions in the U.S. which bear the hallmarks of Scattered Spider activity”, spe

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Enterprises must rethink IAM as AI agents outnumber humans 10 to 1

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2026-02-22 11:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Stolen credentials are responsible for 80% of enterprise breaches. Every major security vendor has converged on the same conclusion: Identity is now the control plane for AI security. Scale alone demands this shift. Enterprises managing 100,000 employees will handle more than one million identities when AI agents enter production. Traditi

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75 million deepfakes blocked: Persona leads the corporate fight against hiring fraud

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-25 16:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more As remote work has become the norm, a shadowy threat has emerged in corporate hiring departments: sophisticated AI-powered fake candidates who can pass video interviews, submit convincing resumes, and even fool human resources professionals into offering them jobs. Now, companies are racing to deploy advanced identity verification technol

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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-28 21:26:08

Beating Brainrot by Button The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate with friends, family, loved ones, associates, acquaintances, people from my sports club, superpositions of all previous groups and enemies alike. And I think my com

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Ethan Hunt Doesn’t Die in the New ‘Mission Impossible,’ But They Considered It

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-03-10 02:00:11

When the eighth Mission: Impossible film changed its title to “The Final Reckoning,” we all had the same thought: Tom Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, was going to die. It would have been the most obvious way to add some real finality to the franchise, but we now know that doesn’t happen. Instead, Ethan lives, as does his sworn enemy, the Entity. And, in a new interview, writer-director Christopher McQuarrie discussed those crucial decisions and many more. In an extended, spoiler-filled conversa

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Latest Tech News

Locking Your Social Security Number Can Protect You From Identity Theft – Here's How It Works

Becoming the person who does the thing

Android’s anti-theft protections will soon become less annoying thanks to your smartwatch

LinkedIn will require recruiters and executives to verify their identity to cut down on scams

6NF File Format

Massive TransUnion breach leaks personal data of 4.4 million customers - what to do now

Police seize VerifTools fake ID marketplace servers, domains

Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

Google is expanding a key anti-theft feature to make your apps more secure

Single Sign on for Furries

Everything to know about UniFi OS Server

"If you can rack it, you can run UniFi OS" Ubiquiti self-hosted UniFi OS release

Apple @ Work: Why MDM isn’t enough to succeed with Macs

Here’s how Android Identity Check will start taking advantage of your smartwatch (APK teardown)

Understanding the Complete Identity Management Ecosystem

Solid protocol restores digital agency

Keep Pydantic out of your Domain Layer

Android might soon trust your smartwatch to help verify your identity (APK teardown)

Qantas Data Breach Impacts 5.7 Million Customers. Here's What We Know

Qantas Contacted by Hackers Responsible for Data Breach Affecting Millions of Customers

Qantas Breach Comprises Data of Up to 6 Million Customers

Identity theft hits 1.1M reports — and authentication fatigue is only getting worse

Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Cisco warns of max severity RCE flaws in Identity Services Engine

3 key takeaways from the Scattered Spider attacks on insurance firms

Enterprises must rethink IAM as AI agents outnumber humans 10 to 1

75 million deepfakes blocked: Persona leads the corporate fight against hiring fraud

Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

Ethan Hunt Doesn’t Die in the New ‘Mission Impossible,’ But They Considered It

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