Over one million American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest customers' details have been sold on eBay.
A coalition of corporations, universities and federal law enforcement agencies on Wednesday in the US opened the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection, whose mission is to research identity theft problems and solutions.
The National Association of Software and Service Companies, an Indian trade body, has asked the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to provide details of its undercover operation that allegedly found customers' data for sale by Indian outsourcers.
Unless you plan to chain your PDA to your belt, the odds of losing your PDA are good. And if you're an IT manager, the whereabouts of corporate-supplied PDAs--and the sensitive information they contain--is now your problem.
The Federal Privacy Commissioner has described identity fraud as a "gross invasion of privacy" and supported government efforts to fight it, while warning strong protections must accompany any proposal from the start.
Even if your organisation takes every possible precaution to protect its data, a security breach is often inevitable. What do you do if it happens? Mike Mullins offers some pointers for notifying those affected.
Is online identity theft as rife as the widespread media reports would suggest? We find out whether the risks are real.
The United States moves forward with a plan to put RFID chips and biometric data in passports by early next year.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin -- what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
Will corporate leaders broadly adopt the draconian measures in this cautionary tale? Not likely. But once RFID sensors are smart, cheap and pervasive, the potential for abuse will be significant.
The Korean government has ruled that by next year, domestic manufacturers must ensure that mobile phones emit a loud shutter-like click or noise when the camera is activated.
Spyware is gaining more mindshare amongst IT departments and security vendors alike. We round up eight tools that take on the undercover software.
In this special review, we round up the various authentication devices on the market. From fingerprint scanners, to single sign-on software and biometric technology -- we have the authentication market covered.
For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?
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