Warning: for some, the article might be scary reading!
The Interview was with Chris Vickery, director of cyber-risk research for UpGuard in California, who warned listeners recently about a situation in which another high-technology company allowed 198 million voters’ personal information to become publicly accessible online.
In general, We are more vulnerable than we think we are to personal security breaches. “If a bad guy has your phone number and can get your PIN, they can, at 3 in the morning, get a code sent to your phone, listen to your voicemails, log in to your bank account and drain all your money,” Vickery said. “Phone numbers are more important than people realize.”
And there are a lot of people being careless with their emails and its content. Social networking sites are another source of information for the ‘bad guys’ to mine into.
According to Vickery, Experian put together a data base called Mosaic, and placed group names to the data. Here are some: “It’s (Mosaic) a lifestyle segmentation of people into groups that are labeled to describe their economic circumstances. The names of some top-level categories are “power elite,” “flourishing families,” “booming with confidence,” “suburban style,” “rising boomers,” promising families.” Categories at the bottom, in terms of individuals’ economic circumstances, are “economic challenges,” “aspirational fusion,” “golden year guardians,” “striving forward,” and “urban survivors.”
You might wonder, like I did, which lifestyle description do I fall into according the Experian’s Mosaic segmentation?
Vickery said: “There is very little regulation protecting all of this intense data.”
One information technology representative called it the time of 'mega data' accessibility.
For information about what Vickery recommends to allay some of your fears, go to the Squared Away article to read the entire interview.
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