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- The multiple faces of identity theft
- During a routine check of her new 401k account, "Holli" discovered something that wasn't quite right. The name of another person was attached to her account. A person she didn't know. It is something the experts call Social Security Number-only identity theft. And it is more popular...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Are we getting too comfortable with our online information?
- In a survey by Webroot Software, 70 percent of online shoppers are quite comfortable with entering their credit card numbers on an Internet site. Is this a trend or simply what it takes to integrate the Internet into our lives? The kicker is that one in...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Establish a strategy for security breach notification
- When it comes to security breaches, it's important to remember that old adage about quality vs. quantity. Data breaches aren't just about a hacker breaking into a network and stealing information. In fact, they come in all shapes and sizes: A data breach can occur with a...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Drive-by pharming simplifies identity theft
- The first real-world occurrence of drive-by pharming has finally been observed and substantiated. In reality it was only a matter of time as this type of attack was made public in 2006 as a white paper written by three security researchers associated with the Indiana University School of Informatics. The...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Norton Internet Security 2008: The Right Tool for the Job?
- The Job Windows computers require protection from a wide variety of common viruses and spyware programs, not too mention unwanted intrusions. Novice users are particularly vulnerable to system infections and identity theft. A single software suite is required that can address all these issues. The Tool ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- The year of the missing identity
- 2007 seems to have been the year of the missing identity. Most recently, the Globe and Mail reported that a computer tape is missing from Iron Mountain, a data storage company. The tape is believed to have information on 650,000 credit card holders, including customers of J.C. Penney...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- What my grandmother taught me about IT security
- The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 passed the Senate by unanimous consent. As is often the case in our nation's legislature, the two houses of the federal legislature -- the House of Representatives and the Senate -- are working at roughly redundant purposes, and have each...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Phishing and pharming 101: Protect your identity
- Using a variety of nefarious methods, phishing and pharming are a consistent problem that threatens everyone with identity theft. If you recognize what these methods are and how malicious users employ them, you can keep yourself and your users from becoming a victim.A quick reviewPhishing involves sending an e-mail that...
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Deal responsibly with identity data breaches
- Most security managers are aware of some form of the 5 steps for handling an incident: prevent, detect, contain, eradicate, and recover. These steps are usually sufficient for those incidents in which Personally Identifiable Information PII or electronic Protected Health Information ePHI isn't compromised. However, a breach of individual identity...
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Prevent identity theft by avoiding these seven common mistakes
- Mitigating risk of identity theft"Prevent identity theft" is a wonderfully lofty goal. These are all good recommendations to "mitigate risk of identity theft." Some good additions include providing the least amount of access to the fewest number of people and reviewing data needs BEFORE collecting. Good article...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Prevent identity theft by avoiding these seven common mistakes
- Identity theft may be on the rise, but you don't have to make it easy for thieves -- take steps to protect the personally identifiable information PII of your employees and clients. You can start by avoiding these seven mistakes. Identity theft is on the rise. Is your organization...
- Technical articles 2007-05-17
- Data encryption is not a security panacea
- Data encryption is getting a lot of press these days. It seems like a host of businesses are running to encryption vendors to see how fast they can scramble their sensitive information in the face of well-publicized data breaches. Much of this excitement or hysteria is fueled by...
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- What’s the Most Secure OS? Surprise! It’s Windows. (Well, sort of, in a way, if you look at things in a certain fashion and ignore other security metrics.)
- The startling conclusion that Microsoft has the most secure OS isn’t mine (although I don’t find it all that fantastically unlikely), but that of some observors who came to that conclusion after looking at Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report Volume IX (http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/theme.jsp?themeid=threatreport) that covers the second half...
- Blog posts 2007-03-24
- California UCC Filings exposed 100K+ SS numbers for years
- If you do any business in the State of California (http://www.ss.ca.gov/) which involves filing papers with the Secretary of State, such as loan filings under the Uniform Commercial Code, then you should know that until very recently hundreds of thousands of such records containing Social Security numbers were available online...
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Anti-virus vendors worry about the pace of malware production
- Kaspersky Labs Eugene Kaspersky and F-Secures Mikko Hypponen spoke out about the growing difficulties in keeping up with cyber criminals. In a speech at CeBit in Hanover, Germany, Kaspersky stated flatly that, "If the growth in malware continues at the current pace, makers of anti-virus software may not be...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Protect your laptop from ad hoc wireless networks
- Over the past several months there have been a host of articles written about an issue with the Windows XP’s default wireless settings. The issue discussed is the automatic search for, and connection to, computer-to-computer wireless networks without user intervention.In this post, I take a quick look at why...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Study: Identity theft keeps climbing
- The Devil is in the Details...I suspect the devil with these surveys is in how one defines "identity theft". From my perspective it is on the rise, as twice since the Christmas season I have received word from a bank that my credit card has been reissued with a...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-19
- Best Identity Theft Guide
- Imagine finding the home of your dreams. It's the perfect location, the perfect style, even the perfect price. Excitedly, you start the loan application process. You know this part of the process will be easy since you've always paid your bills on time and only have one credit card which...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Office copiers pose identity theft risk
- commercial fax machines might tooI worked at a place where we logged outgoing fax data inside the machine. We discovered insider IP theft this way, someone had faxed info to a competitor they had worked for. Probably commercial machines can save the faxes too, so someone...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Office copiers pose identity theft risk
- Not only are we vulnerable to spam, phishing, hacking, dumpster diving, worms, rootkits, viruses, botnets, internal data thefts, and a host of other threats, but experts now warn of a new, unseen threat--copy machines. Thats right. The same copier that youve been using to duplicate your tax returns, expense claims,...
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
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