In the context of information security,social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering,fraud,or system access,it differs from a traditional "con" in the sense that it is often one of the many steps in a more complex fraud scheme. It has also been defined as "any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interests."
Equifax Inc. is an American multinational consumer credit reporting agency headquartered in Atlanta,Georgia and is one of the three largest consumer credit reporting agencies,along with Experian and TransUnion. Equifax collects and aggregates information on over 800 million individual consumers and more than 88 million businesses worldwide. In addition to credit and demographic data and services to business,Equifax sells credit monitoring and fraud prevention services directly to consumers.
Uniden Holdings Corporation is a Japanese company in the wireless communication industry.
VTech Innovation,L.P.,doing business as Advanced American Telephones,is a telephone manufacturing company.
Philips Consumer Communications,L.P. was a $2.5 billion joint venture of Lucent Technologies and Royal Philips Electronics formed on October 7,1997. Philips owned 60% of the joint venture,with Lucent owning the other 40%. PCC was a global venture,with branches in more than 100 countries,including the US,Latin America,Asia-Pacific and Europe. Analysts predicted PCC would become one of the major players in the consumer communications business.
CT2 is a cordless telephony standard that was used in the early 1990s to provide short-range proto-mobile phone service in some countries in Europe and in Hong Kong. It is considered the precursor to the more successful DECT system. CT2 was also referred to by its marketing name,Telepoint.
Ticketek is an Australian event ticketing company. Founded in 1990,the company is owned by TEG Pty Ltd with its headquarters in Sydney and operates ticketing operations for entertainment and sporting events in Australia and New Zealand. There are companies using the name Ticketek in other countries however these are not a part of the Ticketek Australia/NZ operations but are a part of Ticketek Pty Ltd/Softix Pty Ltd.
Snom Technology GmbH is a German company which manufactures Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones,based on the IETF standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Snom's products are targeted at the small- to medium-sized business sector,home offices,Internet service providers,carriers,and original equipment manufacturers. The company,founded in 1996 and headquartered in Berlin,is a wholly owned subsidiary of VTech Holdings Limited,since 2016.
Credit card fraud is an inclusive term for fraud committed using a payment card,such as a credit card or debit card. The purpose may be to obtain goods or services or to make payment to another account,which is controlled by a criminal. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is the data security standard created to help financial institutions process card payments securely and reduce card fraud.
Gigaset AG,formerly known as Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices,is a German multinational corporation based in Bocholt,Germany. More active in the area of communications technology,it manufactures DECT telephones.
DSP Group,Inc. was an American company that manufactured chipsets for VoIP,multimedia,and digital cordless applications. Founded in 1987 with headquarters in San Jose,California,DSP Group employed over 400 people at three US sites and offices in Germany,Scotland,Israel,India,Hong Kong and Japan until it was acquired by Synaptics.
Cellebrite DI Ltd. is an Israeli digital intelligence company that provides tools for federal,state,and local law enforcement as well as enterprise companies and service providers to collect,review,analyze and manage digital data. On April 8,2021,Cellebrite announced plans to go public via a merger with a blank-check firm,valuing the company at approximately $2.4 billion. Their flagship product series is the Cellebrite UFED.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history,the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based in China,widely believed to be the Jiangsu State Security Department,a subsidiary of the Government of China's Ministry of State Security spy agency.
Have I Been Pwned? is a website that allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches. The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts,and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up to be notified if their email address appears in future dumps. The site has been widely touted as a valuable resource for Internet users wishing to protect their own security and privacy. Have I Been Pwned? was created by security expert Troy Hunt on 4 December 2013.
Troy Adam Hunt is an Australian web security consultant known for public education and outreach on security topics. He created and operates Have I Been Pwned?,a data breach search website that allows users to see if their personal information has been compromised. He has also authored several popular security-related courses on Pluralsight,and regularly presents keynotes and workshops on security topics. He created ASafaWeb,a tool that formerly performed automated security analysis on ASP.NET websites.
Connected toys are internet-enabled devices with Wi-Fi,Bluetooth,or other capabilities built in. These toys,which may or may not be smart toys,provide a more personalized play experience for children through embedded software that can offer app integration,speech and/or image recognition,RFID functionality,and web searching functions. A connected toy usually collects information about the users either voluntarily or involuntarily,which raises concerns on the topic of privacy. The data collected by the connected toys are usually stored in a database,where companies that produce connected toys can use the data for their own purposes,provided they do so in line with the protections outlined in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
A SIM swap scam is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.
Stalkerware is monitoring software or spyware that is used for cyberstalking. The term was coined when people started to widely use commercial spyware to spy on their spouses or intimate partners. Stalkerware has been criticized because of its use by abusers,stalkers,and employers.
