All About Identity Theft

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Identity Theft - State likely to drop charges against investigator in HP case


State likely to drop charges against investigator in HP case
Contra Costa Times - A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court, and state prosecutors said they would not oppose a defense motion to dismiss the identity theft, conspiracy, fraud and illegal use of computer data charges against

TheStar.com - News - 3 charged in identity theft
Toronto Star - Three people face a combined 70 charges after Canadians across the country had their identities stolen, Durham Regional Police say. Employees of The Source called police to the Dundas St. W. electronics store in Whitby on Friday to report a fraud in

Coaches Talk Mentoring In Super Bowl Spot
CBS News - including Alcohol Abuse, the Arts, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Breast Cancer, Child Abduction, Child Advocacy, Children's Health, Colon Cancer, Depression, Diversity/Tolerance, Drug Abuse, Education, Epilepsy, Heart Disease, HIV/AIDS, Identity Theft

County Supervisors call for upgrades to protect against identity theft
North County Times - SAN DIEGO -- County supervisors Tuesday unanimously directed county managers to find $300,000 to reinforce safeguards to protect taxpayers' personal information from identity theft. The recommendations were outlined as part of a review supervisors

What's In Your Mailbox?
Ledger - There's a good chance that much of that mail is made up of unsolicited credit-card offers, which, if they fall into the wrong hands, can make you vulnerable to identity theft. And that's not to mention the temptation such offers hold - temptations

State bill targets credit fraud
MSN MoneyCentral - Identity theft causes havoc, and our current statute of limitations makes it difficult to investigate and prosecute these cases. Today's consumer must be ever-vigilant in their credit protection activities, and SB 369 will give these consumers and

Monday, January 29, 2007

RSA Announces (Identity Theft) Findings of Annual Consumer Online Fraud Survey 


RSA Announces Findings of Annual Consumer Online Fraud Survey 
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, today released the findings of its fourth annual Financial Institution Consumer Online Fraud Survey. Conducted in December 2006, the online survey(1) asked 1,678 adults(2) from eight countries(3) around the world for their opinions on evolving fraud threats such as phishing, vishing and keylogging, and on the efforts of their financial institutions to strengthen ...

February 2007 
Keeping the business locked down from hackers and other means of electronic theft is a big job, but perhaps not as big as keeping sensitive information from leaking out by accident.

Second Massive Email Virus Attack in a Month Portends Explosive Growth in Fraud, Theft, Spam and Viruses 
Postini, the global leader in on-demand communications security, compliance and productivity solutions for email, instant messaging and the web, today announced that hackers and spammers are raising their onslaught in 2007 as witnessed by two massive, global email-borne virus attacks which took place from December 29 to December 31, 2006 and again from January 19 to January 21, 2007.

Dell Starts Taking Orders for Notebooks Pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows Vista 
Dell announced today that this weekend it will begin taking orders for Dell desktop and notebook computers pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows Vista.Dell has spent more than 100,000 engineer-hours testing and validating the new operating system and is ready to ...