Category: Corporate

1. Locations in the News

   (60 articles) Massachusetts

   (56 articles) California

   (36 articles) Washington

   (29 articles) New York

   (25 articles) Boston

   (21 articles) Texas

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   (18 articles) America

   (17 articles) Nevada

   (16 articles) Miami

2. Organizations in the News

   (68 articles) Federal Trade Commission

   (58 articles) Heartland Payment Systems

   (47 articles) Javelin Strategy & Research

   (46 articles) Ponemon Institute

   (39 articles) Senate

   (38 articles) Congress

   (33 articles) Mastercard

   (29 articles) FTC

   (27 articles) Microsoft

   (24 articles) Google

3. People in the News

   (28 articles) Albert Gonzalez

   (18 articles) Larry Ponemon

   (18 articles) Avivah Litan

   (15 articles) Tom Wills

   (15 articles) Linda Foley

   (12 articles) James Van Dyke

   (12 articles) Steven Bearak

   (10 articles) Barbara Anthony

   (9 articles) Robert Carr

   (9 articles) David Taylor

1. '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.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Texas   Michigan   Philadelphia

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.
   

   Arkansas National Guard loses personal details of up to 15,000 guardsmen - The Source For Document Management News  
   

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5. 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

6. 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.
   

   Identity Theft Cases On The Rise - mystateline.com  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Javelin Strategy & Research

7. 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

8. 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.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Alaska

9. 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.
   

   What every small business has to know about new state laws governing private information - WBJournal.com  
   Mass. law requires strict IT security - Fosters.com  
   

   1 Comment Mentions:   Massachusetts   Barbara Anthony   Deval Patrick

10. 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 ...
    

    Cyberthieves Using Bluetooth To Steal Gas Station Credit Card Data - StorefrontBacktalk  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Evan Schuman   Secret Service   Google

11. 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

12. 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).
    

    FTC warns organiations, firms about P2P sensitive data leaks - AfterDawn.com  
    FTC P2P Data Leak Alarm Could Give Law-Makers Big Stick - CIO.com  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amy Klobuchar   Federal Trade Commission   FTC

13. 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.
    

    Wyndham Hotel group hacked over three-month period to leave customer credit card data compromised - IT security news, reviews and opinion  
    Wyndham hotels hacked again - UK technology news, reviews and analysis  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Wyndham   American Express   Nicholas Percoco

14. 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.

15. 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...
    

    FTC To ControlScan: Your Web Site Security Seals Are Lies - StorefrontBacktalk  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Federal Trade Commission   FTC   ICO

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