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BlackBerry’s Security Approach Leads to Theories of Secret Deals
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 8 2010)
...Security Approach Leads to Theories About Deals Photograph by Verizon Wireless/ Illustration by The New York Times By MIGUEL HELFT and VIKAS BAJAJ Published: August 8, 2010 * Sign In to E-Mail * Print * Singl......” said Leslie Harris, chief executive of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which is based in Washington, and a board member of the Global Network Initiative, a coalition of companies and nonprofit groups...
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Gillibrand: Cybercrime Costs NY Businesses Approximately $4.6 Billion Each Year
Explore Article FOX 40 WICZ TV (Mar 24 2010)
... and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today introduced the International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act Washington, D.C. – As New York businesses lose approximately $4.6 billion as a result of cyberattacks and with a growing threat of...
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Patient Billed for Phony Liposuction as Medical ID Theft Rises
Explore Article BusinessWeek (Mar 23 2010)
... using stolen information to file false claims,” said Louis Saccoccio, executive director of the Washington-based National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, a non-profit research group. Criminals set up fa......ston. Editors: Rick Levinson, Rob Urban. To contact the reporter on this story: Margaret Collins in New York at mcollins45@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Rick Levinson at... (Read Full Article)
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FBI Report Lists Internet Scams To Watch Out For in 2010
Explore Article gantdaily.com (Mar 18 2010)
...or information is provided, 76.6% were men and half of those resided in either California, Florida, New York, the District of Columbia, Texas or Washington. The majority of reported perpetrators (65.4%) were from the United States. A number of perpetrator... (Read Full Article)
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US internet crime losses doubled last year
Explore Article Infosecurity (USA) (Mar 15 2010)
...ts. Moving down the top ten list reflects the states with the highest poulation, as Flordia, Texas, New York, and New Jersey rounded out the top five, each state reglistering at least 5% of all internet crime...... top ten includes, in order: Illinois (3.6%), Pennsylvania (3.4%), Ohio (3.0), Virginia (2.9%), and Washington (2.8%). (Read Full Article)
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LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims Were False
Explore Article Federal Trade Commission (Mar 9 2010)
...e, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,......ota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia participated in this settlement. In addition to LifeLock, the FTC complaint name... (Read Full Article)
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P2P breach hits Congress
Explore Article fiercegovernmentit.com (Nov 2 2009)
...cument into the public domain in a P2P snafu. As of last Friday, it had been downloaded by users in Washington, New York, London and elsewhere, the Washington Post reports. It was a wakeup call for House leaders who have ordered an "immediate and comprehensi... (Read Full Article)
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Bank of New York Mellon Employee Charged with ID Theft
Explore Article bankinfosecurity.com (Oct 30 2009)
...erage accounts with several financial institutions including E*Trade, Fidelity, Citi, Wachovia, and Washington Mutual. Prosecutors say Adeyemi used these accounts as dummy accounts for the purpose of receiving ......s and organizations that Adeyemi allegedly stole money from include: Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, Iris Ministries, the Kalgidhar Trust, the Sudanese American Community Deve... (Read Full Article)
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"Identity Theft: The $500 Billion Criminal Enterprise"
Explore Article Federal News Radio 1500 AM (Oct 30 2009)
...n of the United States Secret Service, having served in protective and investigative assignments in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, Massachusetts. Currently, Mr. Jenkins holds the position of Deputy Special Age... (Read Full Article)
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Survey Finds Organizations Face Challenges in Readying for New Massachusetts Data Security Regulations
Explore Article Reuters.com (Sep 16 2009)
...LP is one of the nation's leading law firms with offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. The firm's core areas of practice are corporate, litigation and real estate, with specialized... (Read Full Article)
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How much are you worth on the black market?
Explore Article IDG News Service (Sep 11 2009)
...ommitted on the streets of Los Angeles. Every three minutes, a crime is committed on the streets of Washington, D.C. In New York, a crime is committed every two minutes ... every three seconds, a crime is committed on the net," ... (Read Full Article)
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Federal data leaked online
Explore Article Concord Monitor Online (Aug 3 2009)
...+ Facebook + Post to MySpace! MySpace + Hyperlink Comments By Brian Krebs and Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post August 02, 2009 - 12:00 am The indiscriminate use of a popular online data-sharing technology......airman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Edolphus Towns, a Democrat from New York, said he would introduce a bill to ban such software from all government and contractor computers a... (Read Full Article)
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States Scaring The POS Off Randomly Regulated Retailers
Explore Article StorefrontBacktalk (Jun 24 2009)
When it comes to regulating retailers, what could be worse than an over-zealous Washington? How about fifty over-zealous "Washingtons"? Discussions about "Big Brother" and onerous regulation......dustry Data Security Standard (âPCI DSSâ) for businesses that accept payment cards. As noted by New York law firm Hunton & Williams, “Minnesota law currently codifies certain select PCI DSS requirements. ... (Read Full Article)
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IRS lax in destroying sensitive tax papers - report
Explore Article in.reuters.com (May 22 2009)
WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Sensitive documents about U.S. taxpayers were found in trash outside all Inter......ector requested to improve oversight. Investigators visited eight IRS offices in Arizona, Maryland, New York and Utah and interviewed managers across the country from September 2007 to May 2008. (Editing by J... (Read Full Article)
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Stimulus bill puts burden on physicians to tell patients of data breach
Explore Article American Medical Association (Mar 16 2009)
...hysicians," said Lisa Sotto, partner and head of the privacy and information management practice at New York law firm Hunton & Williams LLP. With that in mind, experts say it's important to have a plan for wh......h occurred and how it occurred, said Robert Gellman, a privacy and information policy consultant in Washington, D.C. In many cases, state laws requiring hospitals or practices to notify patients in case of a ...
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Towns blindsided by ID theft rules
Explore Article thesouthern.com (Mar 13 2009)
Comment "Many executives still are unaware that the federally-mandated “red flag rules” must be adhered to by hospitals, colleges and universities, ..." - Derek Beckwith
...e for the state and the feds,” Marion Mayor Bob Butler said Thursday. “It’s a matter of somebody in Washington probably who is not in touch with reality — some ivory-domed person sitting and saying, ‘This is wh......r case, the addresses we are dealing with are accounts in our community. It’s not like someone from New York is going to come here and steal someone’s ID to obtain water and ... (Read Full Article)
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Safeguard Employee Data
Explore Article Law.com (Mar 12 2009)
...ispose of, personal information more broadly defined. Other states, including California, Nebraska, New York, Michigan and Oklahoma, have recently passed laws prohibiting employers from using employees' Socia......e-digit number. Many other states, including Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, Nevada, Minnesota and Washington, have more general laws requiring individuals and businesses alike to protect the security and conf... (Read Full Article)
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