By John Dancu
PlainsCapital bank in Lubbock, Texas is suing its customer, Hillary Machinery Inc., who was hit by a $800,000 cybertheft incident involving unauthorized wire transfers to accounts in Romania and Italy last November.
While the bank later recovered $600k, the customer demanded the bank repay the other $200k claiming the theft happened because the bank’s [...]
Spending the week in sunny San Fran for the annual RSA security conference. A great kick-off to the conference was the Liberty Alliance Workshop that took place yesterday called “Harnessing the Power of Digital Identity.” We’ve been involved in the Information Card Foundation since it was formed and have been a leader in helping to [...]
Well after the recent news about 90,000 sexual predators being removed from MySpace (before the Task Force issued their Report, MySpace only admitted to removing 25,000) and the most recent sexual predator sex ring bust on Facebook that involved 31 students and an 18 year old man, I can’t help but reiterate our position that [...]
Last week VeriSign released results of a survey it commissioned regarding Internet security. The findings show that 85% of consumers think trusting a site is most important when interacting on a Web site and sharing confidential information. And only 9% said competitive pricing was more important.
Also interesting is that 76% of consumers claim identity theft [...]
If you have a technology solution that can be used to address child Internet safety you should check out the call for review entries the Berkman Center announced last week to present to the Technical Advisory Board Committee, which is a sub-committee of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. The Technical Advisory Board members [...]
I’m back from the RSA conference and how exhausting. Understandable considering there were 17,000 people at the show—all focused on the security industry.
In case you didn’t see it, we made an announcement during RSA about our partnership with Upek, a biometrics company based in the Bay area. What I find exciting about this partnership is [...]
What image comes to your mind when you think about identity thieves?
I would guess it isn’t this couple:
Yet these young 20 something’s are suspected of crimes including ID Theft and forgery. You can read about it here and here.
This story just goes to show that it isn’t only faceless criminals hiding behind computer [...]
Barely giving us time for the turkey to digest, some stores are advertising that they will open their doors at 4:00 a.m. this Friday to kick off the official start of the holiday shopping season. And some online retailers have already gotten a jump start and are offering deals starting today. Check out [...]
I’m sure by now you’ve seen the news that the co-founder of MySpace has been caught faking his age on his MySpace profile. Quite ironic given the age verification issues social networks are facing these days. But now seems as good a time as any to say that age and identity verification doesn’t [...]
Have you heard about the latest scam from the bad guys? It appears they too have learned how much impact marketing has on a “business” and purchased some keywords for Google and Yahoo ads. This article by Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz of USA Today explains it well and will bring you up [...]
