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• Recent Death of Data Breach Class Action Resuscitates Lack of Standing Arguments in Identity Exposure Cases

  
  Privacy Law Blog — Authority: 100
  On November 23, 2009, a federal court in Missouri bucked the recent trend in identity exposure lawsuits and refused to recognize Article III standing in a class action lawsuit that alleged simply an increased risk of identity theft resulting from a data breach. In Amburgy v. Express Scripts, Inc. , Magistrate Judge ...
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• MIT Says Handing Over Your Identity Data Protects You

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Identity is a simple concept that has become a complex problem. It has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money and the ease of obtaining credit and taking over an account. Because identity has yet to be effectively established, anyone can be you. Currently, ...
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• Handwritten Signature is Stupid Authorization

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Ever forge your husband’s signature? Wife’s? Parent’s? Client’s? Do you think the clerk behind the counter at Walmart is skilled in handwriting analysis? I’ve always viewed a signature as a totally ridiculous form of authentication and a total waste of my time. ...
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• The Twelve Scams of Christmas,” or Popular Online Attacks This Holiday Season Pt IV of IV

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the ...
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• The Twelve Scams of Christmas,” or Popular Online Attacks This Holiday Season Pt III of IV

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the ...
  6 days ago

• Tales of dingbat data breaches

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 151
  Evil geniuses arent to blame for most breaches of personal data. Usually, the information is all but handed out, thanks to carelessness or stupid decisions.
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• The Twelve Scams of Christmas,” or Popular Online Attacks This Holiday Season Pt I of IV

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the twelve ...
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• The Twelve Scams of Christmas,” or Popular Online Attacks This Holiday Season Pt II of IV

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert Cybercriminals Take Advantage of the Holiday Season, Aiming to Steal Consumers’ Money, Identities and Financial Information As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the ...
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• SWATting, Using Technology To Hurt

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ...
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• Hackers Indicted for Jacking Comcast

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcasts homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let him know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them. It has not been disclosed how the email was ...
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• SWATting, Using Technology To Hurt

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ...
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• Study shows ID Theft risk climbs by five times after data breach

  
  LifeLock.com Promo Code — Authority: 115
  Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
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• Money Mules Facilitate Identity Theft and Fraud

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Southwestern Bell sued for alleged DMV data grab

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Joe Harris reports: Southwestern Bell is the latest in a series of class-action defendants accused of using misrepresentations to get confidential data from a Department of Motor Vehicles database “for commercial purposes.” The complaint against SW Bell is the third that Kansas City attorney Mitchell Burgess ...
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• I Bought an ATM off Craigslist for $750 w/1000 CC#s on it. Yup.

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert After the Vegas DEFCON ATM debacle where hackers hacked hackers by setting up a fake ATM in front of the facilities security office, I needed to see how stupid easy it was to buy and ATM and just set it up anywhere. So my search began. I started looking on e-bay and found ...
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• Why is Child Pornography on Your PC?

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always stressed the ...
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• Smarten Up. Increase Your Information Security Vocabulary

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”.  Stymied as to why they would ask me to do ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Identity Theft Alive and Well? And who really cares?

  
  Denise Richardson — Authority: 121
  Forget about who is minding the store. The more important question here is who is protecting the identities of consumers? Which businesses care about protecting our data? Are there any financial institutions taking this crime seriously? If not, why arent they? If financial companies, creditors, and other ...
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• Mistake Exposes Personal Information of Chaminade University Students

  
  Educational Security Incidents (ESI) - Sometimes the free flow of information is unintentional — Authority: 100
  Quick Facts Date: 11/6/2009 Institution: Chaminade University Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure Number Affected: 4,500 Source: DataBreaches.net Abstract Source: Star Bulletin Abstract Chaminade University recently announced that a mistake exposed personal information on thousands of students. ...
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• Insider Identity Theft Can Be Most Damaging

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 418
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Earlier this week, an IT employee was indicted for stealing the identities of 150 of his coworkers at Bank of New York Mellon, to the tune of 1.1 million bucks. He bilked almost $140,000 a year over an eight year period by compromising the online bank accounts of numerous ...
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