New business (Identity Theft) destroys paper trail

New business destroys paper trail
1960 Sun - It's not just "trash talk" when Katy resident Joe Siminic, who recently opened West Houston Document Destruction, an on or off site shredding service, talks about protecting identities, businesses and the environment. After spending 30 years in the
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Alleged leader of ID theft ring arrested
WOOD - (Muskegon County, April 5, 2006, 4:36 p.m.) Investigators in Muskegon County say they have arrested the boss of an international crime ring targeting West Michigan stores. Authorities arrested the man from Los Angeles. He is the alleged leader of
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Thief stole more than 200 IDs, some from graveyards
Seattle Times - Greg and Carol Paus' 6-year-old son, Jeffrey, died of a brain tumor in Whatcom County in 1961. Forty-two years later they were devastated to learn that someone was using their dead son's identity to write a string of bad checks in Oregon. "It brought
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Couple charged in identity thefts
Tacoma News Tribune - Police suspect an East Side Tacoma couple might have stolen the identities and mail of as many as 50 people, with the woman s mother among the victims. Pierce County prosecutors on Wednesday charged Winona Nicole Jackson, 25, and her boyfriend
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Well Spent: ID theft can extend to utility fraud as well
Seattle Post Intelligencer - In today's high-tech atmosphere, identity thieves employ a variety of sophisticated schemes, but police say much of them are still perpetrated by old-fashioned, non-computerized methods, and likely by people who personally know their victims. John
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

Enemy at the Watercooler: Insider IT Threats Increasing
TechNewsWorld - The most effective way to detect insider attacks, and to reduce the potential risk to the institution, is to automate the process -- just as is most often done at the perimeter level. New automated enterprise security management systems, for example
Source: www.technewsworld.com