The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (http://www.ic3.gov) received Internet fraud complaints from consumers in 2009 totaling losses of $559.7M. This half a billion dollars of losses is double the $264.6M in Internet fraud losses reported to the IC3 in 2008. Clearly Internet crime is rising exponentially! These reports do not include financial losses incurred by [...]
The Medical Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is notifying over 5,000 patients that their personal data may be at risk, after an unencrypted hard drive containing their information was stolen from the hospital’s mammography unit. The Medical Center is now stepping up their efforts to implement encryption for all mobile and portable storage devices, and [...]
Our Lady of Peace, as psychiatric hospital in Louisville, KY, is notifying over 24,000 individuals after an unencrypted flash drive containing their personal information was lost in April 2010. New data breach notification rules under the HITECH act add teeth to previous rules under the HIPAA act. Now organization that suffer data breaches exposing data [...]
When you die, what will happen to your digital assets? Importantly, what will happen to your passwords and online accounts? Some of these need to be handed over to work colleagues. Some of these need to be handed over to spouses and children. Some may be needed to be handed over to your estate attorneys. [...]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will hold a day-long symposium to examine the threat of commercial payments fraud posed by cyber criminals targeting small and midsize businesses on May 11, 2010. The FDIC has observed an increase in this type of fraud over the past several months, which has resulted in millions of dollars [...]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will hold a day-long symposium to examine the threat of commercial payments fraud posed by cyber criminals targeting small and midsize businesses on May 11, 2010. The FDIC has observed an increase in this type of fraud over the past several months, which has resulted in millions of dollars [...]
Javelin Strategy has released a report about consumer financial fraud that shows that 10 percent of fraud victims fell victim to ATM cash withdrawls. Criminals are using skimming devices that they attach to ATM machines. These devices capture the ATM card information when you insert your card into the machine. Hidden cameras are typically used [...]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant obtained by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, has seized the domain CallService.biz. They allege that CallService.biz was an online service that aided and abetted online fraudsters to raid money from the bank accounts of consumers who’s login [...]
IronKey and BeCrypt have combined their technologies to create an IronKey device that allows a user to re-boot into a trusted environment. This means that companies can enable homeworkers on their own (unmanaged) machines with perfect security. The user simply inserts the IronKey with Trusted Client into their home PC, for example, re-boots, authenticates, and can [...]
Democratic Senator Joe Simitian has reintroduced a measure to SB-1186 that would require that data breach notification letters contain specific information about data loss incidents, including the type of personal information exposed, incident description, type of personal information exposed, and advice for consumers to protect themselves from identity theft. “This new measure makes modest but [...]
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