An excellent way to improve one’s level of security intelligence is to follow the writings of Robert X. Cringley, one of my favorite technology know-it-alls.
Anyway, Cringley’s credit card was recently hacked. And if his card can be hacked, anyone’s can. Like many cardholders, Cringley received a notification from his credit card company’s fraud depar
29 May
Posted by admin as Identity Theft Advice
Welcome to the Tuesday Morning News Kick Off post from the ITAC blog. Typically, we do this post every Monday, but since most of us observed the Memorial Day holiday weekend, we we pushing this post back one day. And, as always, there is not shortage of news. While many of us were enjoying the long weekend and taking time to honor those who served our great nation, the news cycle was humming along in full force. Be sure to check out this full post for more identity theft, data breach and cyber security news.
Sony and Epsilon Agree to Testify Before Congress Sony has finally agreed to testify before a Congressional hearing that will be held by Representative Mary Bono Mack, the chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. The hearing will address the massive data breach that occurred last month on Sony’s PlayStation Network and jeopardized millions of customers’ personal information. Son
26 May
Posted by Alexis Demaine as Financial Articles
Along with your neighborhood watch program and wireless home alarm system you should be comforted to know that there are technologies out there being put to use that help catch the bad guy.
Many of us by now know that a sample of Osama bin Laden’s DNA was used to effectively identify him. But how? They didn’t have his original DNA until his death, but they did have samples from bin Laden’s family members, and scientists were able to match them up and determine they had their man.
This is called Familial DNA.
In Las Angeles police captured a serial killer dubbed “Grim Sleeper”, based on pulling his sons DNA. Prior to the Grim Sleepers arrest, his son was arrested for an unrelated charge. From that arrest they pulled his DNA, and it was a partial match to the DNA found at the crime scenes of his father decades ago. This is c
Sony estimates the massive data breach affecting 100 million PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online Entertainment customers have cost $171 million so far. However, lawsuits and regulatory fines could push that figure much higher.
The money has been spent on providing identity theft protection to affected customers, costs from welcome back programs that offer services for free, customer support costs, network security enhancement costs, legal and consulting costs, as well as lost revenue, Sony said.
Sony stressed that it has not received “any confirmed reports of customer identity theft issues, nor any confirmed misuse of credit cards” from the data breaches.
The company acknowledged that class action lawsuits have been filed against the company and some of its subsidiaries and regulatory inquiries have been initiated. These could significantly increase the costs from the data breaches. “Thos