Be careful...
Lorrie Cranor wasn’t too worried when her phone died a few weeks ago, Brian Barrett reports on wired.com.
Dropped calls are as common as delayed trains and cracked screens. The next morning, it was still dead. Her husband’s was too.
And that’s how the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission discovered that someone hijacked her mobile account, Barrett wrote.
Cranor is not just tech-savvy. She’s a digital security guru, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who specializes in passwords and authentication. And she is a reminder that identity theft can happen to anyone.
For more on potential hacking problems: http://www.wired.com/2016/06/even-ftcs-lead-technologist-can-get-hacked/
Photo: Pinterest.
iPhone 6 Plus.
Dropped calls are as common as delayed trains and cracked screens. The next morning, it was still dead. Her husband’s was too.
And that’s how the chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission discovered that someone hijacked her mobile account, Barrett wrote.
Cranor is not just tech-savvy. She’s a digital security guru, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who specializes in passwords and authentication. And she is a reminder that identity theft can happen to anyone.
For more on potential hacking problems: http://www.wired.com/2016/06/even-ftcs-lead-technologist-can-get-hacked/
Photo: Pinterest.
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