Identity Fraud
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New phishing attempt targets bank customers
News Latest phishing threat exploits confusion over consolidation in banking industry to try to get information out of e-mail recipients for online financial theft and identity fraud.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Privacy, Security, Banking, Phishing, Google Inc., Washington Mutual Inc., SonicWall, bank, knowledge
UK ID cards head for the high street
News The Ú.K. government plans to let customers high street outlets like the Post Office, pharmacists and photo shops to scan photos and fingerprints for ID cards.
Tags: Biometrics, Home Secretary, Card, ID Card, photograph, identity fraud, post office, managing director, Benefit, Biometrics
Credit card fraud a top concern in US as economy melts
News Fears of financial security rise while national security concerns drop in the United States, according to the latest Unisys Security Index.
Tags: Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Security, Fraud, Survey, financial security, debit card, virus, financial, identity fraud
Facebook shuts down malicious fake profiles
News AVG researcher suspects malicious profiles were created automatically by bypassing the Captcha function, but a Facebook spokesman disagrees.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Google Inc., home video, Authentication and encryption, Web Browser, antivirus, credit card information, Facebook, identity fraud
Symantec tool calculates your data's value to thieves
News Norton Online Risk Calculator figures out how much a person's online information is worth on the black market and offers a risk rating.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business security, Norton Co., Security, Tool, antivirus, social networking, Symantec Corp., identity fraud, asset
ID fraud up, but low-tech methods still prevalent
News More consumers are becoming victims, reversing a previous trend in which identity fraud had been gradually decreasing.
Tags: Security, Phishing, phone, recession, hacking, identity fraud, U.S., industry, credit card, women
What's your identity fraud risk level?
News Free My ID Score service assesses how at risk consumers are of being victims of identity fraud.
Tags: Hacking, Data security, Social Security, phone, payment processing, monitoring, network, identity fraud, U.S., credit card
Report: ID fraud malware infecting PCs at increasing rates
News Study finds that last year a third of computers that were infected by malware designed to steal information for use in identity fraud had up-to-date antivirus software.
Tags: PC security, Malware, Antivirus Software, computer, Internet User, financial, bank, researcher, trojan horse, identity fraud
Women more affected by ID fraud, study finds
News Survey finds that more women report identity fraud, but they also do more to protect themselves afterward.
Tags: Legal, Survey, Identity Theft, phone, payment, monitoring, bank, identity fraud, post office, credit card
Data Privacy Day's messages for Obama, consumers
News Privacy advocates warn Obama about identity fraud and cookies, while Microsoft hosts panel discussion on how to educate consumers as part of Data Privacy Day.
Tags: Privacy, Hacking, Firewalls, Viruses and worms, Spam and phishing, Microsoft Corp., Cookie, FTC, Data Privacy Day, Computer
Symantec: Security holes, malware spike in 2008
News Security vulnerabilities and malware rise in 2008 as the criminal underground heats up its data theft and identity fraud activities, new report finds.
Tags: Network security, Data security, PC security, Security Management, Business security, Phishing, Malware, Security, Web Browser, Vulnerability
English-speakers more at risk of identity fraud
News PayPal-commissioned study finds differences in identity fraud rates and password practices between English-speaking countries, France, Spain and Germany.
Tags: Privacy, E-commerce, PayPal, Password, social networking, Spain, financial statement, Germany, Canada, News.com
Express Scripts clients threatened with extortion
News Unable to collect money from data breach victim, criminals threaten clients whose members may have been affected.
Tags: Data security, Client, FBI, St. Louis, health care company, New York, News.com, identity fraud, blog, health care
Flaw turns Gmail into spamming machine
News A "serious security flaw" in Gmail allows spammers to send thousands of bulk e-mail messages through Google's SMTP service, according to a recent report.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Data security, Security, Google Inc., Internet Access, Spamming, Information Security, Flaw, e-mail, spam filtering
Reports examine causes, victims of data breaches
News A four-year study from Verizon assesses the causes of corporate breaches, while the Identity Theft Resource Center releases its annual look at human victims of identity fraud.
Tags: Security, Verizon Communications Inc., Data Breach, Insider Threat, Attack, Russia, Middle East, identity fraud, China, blog
