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Latest Data Breaches
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Retirees vent fury over leak of data; Year of credit monitoring not enough, they say
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Laptop theft results in data breach for P.K. Yonge employees, students
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8,300 Names, Social Security numbers and some Florida driver’s license numbers stolen from laptop in rental car
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State consultant posts dates of birth and Social Security numbers of 22,000 on website
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State consultant posts names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of 22,000 on website
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492 Patients Records Consent Form Signatures Falsified
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150,000 names, addresses, genders, email addresses and customer profiles posted on the Internet by external service provider
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200 Patients Information Exposed Due To Former Employee'S Password Used To Access Medical Records
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Name, Date of Birth and contact details of students lost on hacked server
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Drugstore Schlecker customer information exposed on web
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Retirees vent fury over leak of data; Year of credit monitoring not enough, they say
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Featured Articles
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- Senators seek more input on health IT language in stimulus bill

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- Card Data Breached, Firm Says - WSJ.com

- Mass. businesses protest new identity theft rules - Forbes.com

- 2008 Data Breaches Reach Historic Levels: Consumers and Businesses Hit Harder Than Ever; Heartland Breach Threatens Millions

- Iona College introduces system to fight ID theft | lohud.com | The Journal News
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Identity Force Blog
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Identity Force Unveils Online Identity Protection Tools that Make the Internet Safe Again; New Service is Free for all Members
Explore Article Identity Force Blog (Aug 4 2010)
by Derek Beckwith (Derek)
Identity Force CEO Steven Bearak announced today that the company is now extending sophisticated protection from online fraudsters to all of its members at no cost. The Online Identity Protection Suite thwarts identity thieves by scrambling personally identifiable information and recognizing and blocking phishing sites before they load on computers. The free software takes seconds to download and install, and makes it virtually impossible for system hackers or phishing schemes to steal sensitive information that can be used to commit identity theft. Identity Force members simply need to log into their account dashboards, scroll down to the “Tools” section, find ...
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News from Around the Web
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Rapper Snoop Dogg joins cybercrime fight
Explore Article Federal Computer Week (1 hour, 10 min ago)
Get ready to bust a rhyme against cyber crime with a contest cosponsored by Symantec's Norton and rapper Snoop Dogg. (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Los Angeles Symantec Michael Hardy
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Apple Releases iTunes 10
Explore Article us-cert.gov (4 hours, 45 min ago)
(added September 3, 2010) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Mac Internal Revenue Service Adobe
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Google Releases Chrome 6.0.472.53
Explore Article us-cert.gov (4 hours, 49 min ago)
(added September 3, 2010) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Mac Internal Revenue Service Adobe
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600 Patients' Data Stolen With Laptop
Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (5 hours, 10 min ago)
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What security can learn from the $15M Sprint employee breach
Explore Article CSO Online (6 hours, 2 min ago)
Several former Sprint employees are charged with cloning customer information to make fraudulent phone calls. What researchers are learning about this type of insider breach (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Tampa CSO Magazine Joan Goodchild
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New phishing attacks with out of office and email change
Explore Article Home | Oye! Times (5 hours, 52 min ago)
Clever new attacks simulate emails with moderate level of important information but no alarming key phrases. People started getting phony emails this week that attempt to establish contact through... (Read Full Article) -
KCI working to contain employee data breach
Explore Article San Antonio News, Weather, Sports (5 hours, 55 min ago)
San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts Inc. was offering credit monitoring and other identity-theft prevention services to its U.S. employees Thursday after an inadvertent e-mail containing an attachment listing employees' vital information was sent internally Wednesday, a KCI spokesman said Thursday. The e-mail's attachment listed names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and salaries of the approximately 4,000 KCI employees in the United States... (Read Full Article) -
Faculty, staff ID threatened
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At 8:55 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 26 an e-mail containing the Social Security number, driver’s license number, and first and last name of 2,484 full and part-time ASU employees was sent to 144 ASU e-mail addresses. This information breach has raised concern among affected faculty, as identity theft becomes a risk when Social Security numbers a...
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Patient data lost with stolen laptop
View all 3 articles » Explore Article BCLocalNews.com (6 hours, 1 minute ago)
Fraser Health has informed 600 patients their personal information was compromised when an unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from Burnaby Hospital Aug. 21.
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Heartland Payment, Discover settle data breach claims
View all 3 articles » Explore Article Reuters.com (Sep 2 2010)
Credit and debit card processor Heartland Payment Systems (HPY.N) agreed to pay $5 million to Discover Financial Services (DFS.N) to settle data security breach claims and said this was the final agreement with a card brand related to a cyber theft in its systems in 2008. (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Discover Financial Services Albert Gonzalez Heartland Payment Systems
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Union pension mailer reveals recepient's Social Security numbers
Explore Article stltoday.com (Sep 2 2010)
A local union pension fund sent mailers that included Social Security numbers of the recipients printed on the outside of the envelopes, according to members of the Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity who received the letter. The mailer states that there are more than 24,000 beneficiaries of the pension fund. (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Illinois Metro
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Implementation of Red Flags Rule delayed until appeals court rules on lawsuit
Explore Article Modern Medicine (Sep 2 2010)
Under intense pressure from numerous businesses and members of Congress, the FTC on May 28 delayed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule from the previous effective date of June 1, 2010, to Dec. 31. The latest action means that physician compliance likely will be delayed past that date. The extension until Dec. 31 was the fifth delay to which the ...
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Visa Raises The Bar For PA-DSS Applications And Vendors
Explore Article StorefrontBacktalk (Sep 2 2010)
PCI Columnist Walt Conway asks, do most retailers know that the people who wrote their payment applications have criminal records and that the reseller actually knows this? Also, do chains realize they can implement tokenization without paying for an expensive upgrade? Visa does, and the company spelled it all out in its recently issued Top 10 Best Practices for Payment Application Companies. This document should be required reading for retailers. Although it is aimed at software developers, resellers and system integrators, the document has just as much relevance for any merchant who uses a third-party payment application (which is just ... (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Visa Pci Dss Walt Conway
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How to Protect Consumers from ID Theft
View all 5 articles » Explore Article bankinfosecurity.com (Sep 2 2010)
Financial losses associated with account takeover and intercepted personal information not only adversely affect a consumer's relationship with his banking institution, but also can have a devastating impact on an institution's reputation and financial well-being. (Read Full Article) -
Top Seven Social Media Landmines
Explore Article Infosec Island (Sep 1 2010)
Top Seven Social Media Landmines The basis for much of social media identity theft revolves around social engineering. When a profile claims to represent a certain person or brand, it is generally taken at face value. Lies propagated from such a credible source are likely to be taken as fact for quite a long time, if not indefinitely... (Read Full Article)Comment on Article Mentions: Robert Siciliano
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Recent Comments
Derek Beckwith
» New Law Aims to Shore Up Retail Data Security
Businesses large and small should take note of this important compliance development.
Derek Beckwith
» Mass. institutes new identity theft regulations
Actually, the law impacts any business storing the PII (personally identifiable information) of any Massachusetts ...
Derek Beckwith
» Social Security Numbers printed in SWFL newspapers
That is a great point Anne8. It not only puts the individual at risk, it ...
Anne8
» Social Security Numbers printed in SWFL newspapers
As a health care provider, I have long been alarmed about the use of Social ...
Derek Beckwith
» Data Security Is A Federal Issue Now
Good points, Janice. Building a data breach-free organization starts with proper training, adherence to best ...