Here’s a story that points to how vulnerable people are to identity theft and other types of crimes and frauds from slimy family…and ex-family…members…
Archive for the ‘identity theft’ Category
The Insider Threat For Identity Theft: Watchout For Dead-Beat Parents
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Hackers Are “Rattlesnakes Without the Rattles”
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Research into the psychology of hackers has been going on ever since Cap’n Crunch cereal whistles were used to make free phone calls to anywhere in the world.
I saw the ABC News article…
Tomorrow is “Secure Your ID” Day
Friday, September 19th, 2008This morning I was listening to my usual favorite radio station and was somewhat surprised to hear a guest talk about how he was going to be at a local grocery store parking lot tomorrow to offer free shredding services to help raise awareness of identity theft and in observation of “Secure Your ID” Day…
Miscellaneous Cybercrime & Privacy Tidbits
Friday, September 12th, 2008For the last day of Global Security Week (GSW) I’m providing a few items that relate to cybercrime that I find interesting…
Medical Identity Theft Is On The Rise
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008For day 2 of Global Security Week I want to highlight the growing problem of medical identity theft…
Insider Threat Examples & 7th HIPAA Criminal Conviction
Monday, August 25th, 2008Yesterday I read about the 7th criminal conviction and sentencing that has been given under HIPAA, “Woman gets 14 months in ID theft case.”
Insider Threat Example: Bank Worker Sentenced To 36 Months In Prison; + Prison Terms For Others In Cahoots
Sunday, May 25th, 2008I’ve been doing some research for insider threat training content I’m creating, and I ran across a recent judgment against a bank employee for identity theft. This provides some good lessons to organizations for the insider threat, and would make a great case study for any organization to help personnel improve the ability to better protect personally identifiable information (PII).
Here’s the news release from the The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas…
Insider Threat Example: Bank Worker Sentenced To 36 Months In Prison; + Prison Terms For Others In Cahoots
Sunday, May 25th, 2008I’ve been doing some research for insider threat training content I’m creating, and I ran across a recent judgment against a bank employee for identity theft. This provides some good lessons to organizations for the insider threat, and would make a great case study for any organization to help personnel improve the ability to better protect personally identifiable information (PII).
Here’s the news release from the The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas…
Have You Looked In Your Trash Bins Lately?
Monday, February 18th, 2008It shouldn’t still amaze me, but it does, how often so many organizations just dump huge amounts of printed paper containing tons of personally identifiable information (PII) right into their dumpster sitting behind their building, in the alley, or some other easily reachable public location.
Here’s yet another example of a business throwing away people’s privacy in their trash dumpster…
Identity Theft #1 Consumer Fraud Complaint To FTC in 2007
Friday, February 15th, 2008This week the FTC released the list of the top 20 consumer fraud complaints they received in 2007.
Not surprisingly, identity theft topped their list, accounting for 32% of all the complaints.
