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'Jihad Jane' Had Troubled Past
Explore Article online.wsj.com (1 hour, 32 min ago) Corporate
American suspected of recruiting jihadis on Internet exhibited signs of instability.
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FTC: ID theft firm made bogus claims
Explore Article mcall.com (16 hours, 34 min ago) Consumer , Corporate
LifeLock will pay $12 million to settle complaints that it didn't deliver on its promises. It turns out those iron-clad identity-theft protection guarantees by the company featured in ads that prominently displayed the company CEO's Social Security number are not quite that iron-clad at all.Comment on Article Mentions: Tempe Pennsylvania U.S. Federal Trade Commission
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Compliance Week: Massachusetts’ Tough Privacy Law Takes Effect
Explore Article Compliance Week (Mar 9 2010) Corporate , Healthcare , Higher Ed , Compliance
Corporate compliance, legal, and IT officers entered a brave new world last week, when Massachusetts’ strict new data privacy law finally went into effect. The law, bureaucratically known as 201 CMR 17.00, took hold on March 1 after a year of delays...Comment on Article Mentions: Massachusetts
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Missing Hard Drive Risks ID Of 35,000 Ark. Soldiers
View all 2 articles » Explore Article 4029tv.com (Mar 9 2010) Corporate , Government , Lastest Data Breaches
The Arkansas National Guard now says 35,000 current and former soldiers are at risk of identity theft because of a missing computer hard drive. -
CPP Group Said to Seek $227 Million in London Initial Offering
Explore Article BusinessWeek (Mar 5 2010) Corporate
CPP Group Plc, a U.K. company that provides protection against credit-card and identity theft, may seek to raise about 150 million pounds ($227 million) in an initial public offering, two people familiar with the sale said.Comment on Article Mentions: London CPP Fdic
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Arrests for identity theft double in 2009 as victims deal with crime in less time
View all 2 articles » Explore Article creditloan.com (Feb 23 2010) Consumer , Corporate , Government , ID Theft Prevention , Reports
Though consumers have been more vigilant when it comes to identity theft, the report also shows that the crime has increased. Last year, 11.1 million people were victims of identity theft, which is an increase of 11 percent. Total fraud associated with the crime came in at $54 billion, or a 12 percent increase.
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Medical identity theft strikes 5.8% of American adults
Explore Article NetworkWorld.com (Mar 3 2010) Consumer , Corporate , Healthcare , Medical Identity Theft , Reports
Medical identity theft typically involves stolen insurance card information, or costs related to medical care and equipment given to others using the victim's name. Roughly 5.8% of American adults have been victimized, according to a new survey from The Ponemon Institute. The cost per victim, on average, is $20,160.Comment on Article Mentions: Ponemon Institute
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Lawmakers question if firm broke law when information lost
Explore Article KTUU.com (Feb 12 2010) Corporate , Government , Compliance , Data Breach
The attorney general's office says PricewaterhouseCoopers may have violated state law when it waited more than a month to tell thousands of Alaskans that their personal information is missing.
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Mass. institutes new identity theft regulations
View all 7 articles » Explore Article Home - BostonHerald.com (Mar 2 2010) Corporate , Compliance , ID Theft Prevention
Comment "Actually, the law impacts any business storing the PII (personally identifiable information) of any Massachusetts resident. This legislation casts a ..." - Derek Beckwith
Any Massachusetts business storing or transmitting someone’s personal information must have a written security plan. That’s the major requirement in new identity theft-deterrent regulations that took effect on Monday.1 Comment Mentions: Massachusetts Barbara Anthony Deval Patrick
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An Underappreciated Threat: The Bored Employee
View all 2 articles » Explore Article StorefrontBacktalk (Mar 4 2010) Corporate , Compliance , Data Breach
Retail IT is generally on the lookout for cyberthief intruders trying to break into sensitive systems. The disgruntled former employee is another well-known trouble spot, as are the greedy and potentially dishonest current employees who simply exceed access authorization. But one of the most dangerous and often overlooked threats is the bored and honest employee, frequently younger and left in a very monotonous environment with little to no supervision.Think video store, convenience chain, 24-hour restaurant and gas station. Hacking away out of boredom is a very different profile from someone looking to harm the chain or even steal something to ...Comment on Article Mentions: Evan Schuman Secret Service Google
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Payroll Processor Reveals Data Breach
Explore Article bankinfosecurity.com (Feb 8 2010) Consumer , Corporate , Data Breach
Ceridian Says 27,000 Customers at Risk After Recent HackA Minneapolis-based payroll processor informed 27,000 of its customers last week that their personal data may be at risk after a hacker attacked the company's payroll system last December.Comment on Article Mentions: FBI Ceridian
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US Tackles P2P Data Breach Risk With New Legislation
View all 6 articles » Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 25 2010) Corporate , Compliance , ID Theft Prevention
Software developers would be required to clearly inform users when their files are made available to other P2P (peer-to-peer) users under legislation introduced on 24 Feb. by U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and John Thune (R-SD).Comment on Article Mentions: Amy Klobuchar Federal Trade Commission FTC
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Cybercriminals still consider hotels easy targets for credit card info
View all 3 articles » Explore Article content.usatoday.com (Mar 3 2010) Corporate , Data Breach
Are you more vulnerable to credit card theft if you stay in a hotel? No need to get paranoid, but it is a valid question, since online security firm Trustwave Spiderlabs consider hotels hackers' No. 1 target. It's also a timely question since Wyndham Hotels just yesterday announced that hackers stole customer credit card information by breaching its networks. It's Wyndham's third breach in 12 months.
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Identity Force Unveils New Tool to Help People Measure Their Risk of Being Identity Theft Victims
Explore Article earthtimes.org (Feb 25 2010) Consumer , Corporate , ID Theft Prevention
Identity Force, a leader in identity theft prevention services, announced today that it has introduced a new tool that helps individuals assess their risk of being identity theft victims. The IDF Identity ScoreTM is not a credit score, rather it is a unique 3-digit number that gives people insight into whether their personal identifying inform...Comment on Article Mentions: Steven Bearak Identity Force Bearak Reports , Inc.
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Why seals don't always perform
View all 2 articles » Explore Article ComputerWeekly.com (Mar 3 2010) Corporate , Compliance
The US Federal Trade Commission has just found so-called privacy and security certification service ControlScan guilty of failing to monitor the practices of its certified sites. In their settlement agreement, they state that "founder and former Chief Executive Officer has entered into a separate settlement that requires him to give up $102,000...Comment on Article Mentions: Federal Trade Commission FTC ICO






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