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NewsScammers target Georgia's business registration data
Businesses be on a alert: Lax protection around business registration data in at least two states has enabled scam artists to swindle millions by creating fraudulent corporate identities. Georgia is Read more...
Financial firm warns 1.2 million files exposed
It may have been a case of carelessness or thoughtlessness, but a Concord, N.H., financial services company is sounding alarms that user names and passwords were shared improperly and could have been Read more...
Products prevent identity fraud
A new crop of products is on the market to prevent identity theft. It includes products to scour the Internet looking for signs that criminals have found your information so you can put up a firewall Read more...
Drowning in passwords
If you are like me and millions of others online, you've got more than one password--many more. You may have one that is six or seven letters or one that combines letters and numbers. There could be Read more...
ChoicePoint pays $275,000 fine for data breach
ChoicePoint Inc. agreed to pay $275,000 to federal regulators as a result of a data breach last year that exposed the Social Security numbers and other personal information of 13,750 people. The Read more...
Guilty plea in massive computer hacking scheme
In what's being called the largest identity theft case in U.S. history, a Miami man pleaded guilty last week to charges that he hacked into the computers of some of the nation's biggest retailers and Read more...
Do your customers trust you online?
If your business is online to sell its wares, it's important to create a new generation of consumers who trust you online, according to experts in the field. You have to make your customers feel Read more...
Medical ID theft rampant
Watch your back! Medical ID theft is fast becoming a favorite cybercrimal pastime. It's been off the radar for a while, as medical ID theft data has not been collected since a 2007 report. At the Read more...
FTC: ID theft surges in '08
The Federal Trade Commission received over 300,000 ID theft complaints in 2008, an increase from about 250,000 in 2007. ID theft was the biggest complaint received by the agency, and represented 26 Read more...
Cybercrime on the rise
Security firm Tiversa says its research reveals a 32 percent jump in identity theft-related searches in the fall of 2008 as thieves continued to find new ways to extract sensitive information and Read more...
| Press ReleasesCyber Protection on Cyber Monday Isn’t Enough; 13% of Victims Still Lose Identity via Offline Purchases13% of Identity Theft Victims Lost Identities Purchasing via the Mail and Over The Phone – IdentityHawk® reminds consumers to protect their identities online and offline NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS Read more >> eWise appoints Alexandre Gonthier as CEO, names Phillip Riese chairman of the board of directors, and appoints Eric ArchamNew Leadership Brings Deep Payments Expertise to Further Propel Growth and Adoption of Secure Vault Payments® DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eWise, an online and mobile payments solution provider, today Read more >> SafetyPay and PlaySpan Partner to Offer International e-Shoppers Secure Payment OptionMIAMI BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SafetyPay™, a secure payment provider serving online shoppers, merchants and banks worldwide, today announced a partnership with California-based PlaySpan, a Visa Read more >> The Identity Theft Council Warns of Increased Risk of Identity Theft to Small BusinessesNational cybersecurity awareness month calls to small businesses to prevent, detect and remedy identity theft threatsWALNUT CREEK, Calif., Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of National Read more >> 10,461,621 Online Identity Records Were Lost in September 2011, According to the IdentityHawk Identity Breach ReportIdentityHawk’s September 2011 report accounted for 54 publicly-known breaches. IdentityHawk members, armed with information, could take action to help “stop fraud before it starts.” NORWALK, Conn.--( Read more >> |
