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Friday, July 06, 2007 9:40 AM

GAO: Data Breaches Rarely Lead To ID Theft

"Yep, breaches have no impact whatsoever. Trust me on this..." The Government Accountability Office released a report yesterday stating that it was difficult to link data breaches to confirmed cases of identity theft. The GAO also recommended that agencies
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:10 PM

David Bach on Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft

Financial author and columnist David "Finish Rich" Bach has followed up his November column on identity theft with some more useful discussion, particularly around the ease with which thieves can utilize a Social Security number, name, and address to
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:43 AM

Data Privacy And Guest Workers: It's Worse Than We Thought

As more information comes out about the new immigration proposal, it's becoming clear that the bill not only fails to comprehensively address the root problems of illegal immigration, but introduces a series of new risks to data security, privacy, and
Posted by DrIdentity | 6 Comments
Monday, May 21, 2007 2:46 PM

Identity Theft And The New Immigration Bill

Rather than delve into the morally thorny issue as to whether or not it's right to grant amnesty to undocumented workers, I want to address a serious part of the immigration debate that often goes unmentioned--how the black-market demand for cheap labor
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Monday, May 07, 2007 4:09 PM

TJX Had No Security Whatsoever? "INCONCEIVABLE!"

For those who are interested, the evidence seems to point to wireless hacking, or "wardriving," as the cause of the massive TJ Maxx data breach . The TJX data encryption was nonexistent when transmitting payment data, enabling said enterprising cyber-thieves
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:54 AM

FTC "Proof Positive" Conference, Day 2

Work has been crazy lately, so I didn't get a chance to recap the second day of the "Proof Positive" conference. It wasn't as packed as the first, but here are some highlights: There was an excellent discussion about the differing attitudes of nations
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Monday, April 23, 2007 10:32 PM

FTC "Proof Positive" Conference, Day 1

Today I had the honor of attending the FTC's Proof Positive identity authentication/identity theft conference. If you are into these issues at all, this conference was like a live-action reenactment of "Challenge of the Superfriends"--everyone from Gartner
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:48 PM

Georgia Health Contractor Loses Data On 2.9 Million People

This is exactly how identity theft happens: A computer disk containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal data on 2.9 million residents of Georgia has been lost, according to the state's Department of Community Health. The CD, which
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:37 PM

"The Underground Economy" and Identity Theft

I was originally going to write about the different fraud services and how they work, but Symantec's recently-released 2006 threat report is worth discussing first. The report makes a particular note of the rise in sales of personally identifying information
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