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HP pays $14.5m to settle spy scandal
News It also cites an identity theft statute that prohibits obtaining someone's personally identifying information and then using that information for an unlawful purpose. As part of the settlement, which was first reported by ZDNet UK sister site CNET...
[December 8, 2006, 8:07]
The NASA hacker: Scapegoat or public enemy?
Talkback Not only that, often when you hear of a person charged with hacking you hear of how much money was lost, and it's usually some very high figure estimation, this along with a very high prison term, now when I hear something like that I begin to...
[April 13, 2006, 20:39]
The Blair IT projects
News The chaos that ensued included identity theft on an unprecedented scale, the accidental deletion of.almost a million taxpayer records, overpayments to the tune of £100m and payment delays for hundreds of thousands of taxpayers.
[June 27, 2007, 12:08]
Unpatched machines 'Net's biggest threat'
News Phishing attacks, a form of online threat aimed at stealing personal data for criminal use or identity theft, continued to increase rapidly during the first quarter, the report said. Unpatched computers continue to represent the IT world's biggest...
[April 26, 2005, 10:10]
Lords calls for urgent action on internet security
News Merlin, the Earl of Errol, a member of the Science and Technology Committee said: "A lot of online e-crime is focused on identity theft. If public confidence in the security of the internet is undermined or, if the internet itself is compromised...
[August 10, 2007, 17:43]
Security issue will be fixed - experts
News This user presence is important in that it ensures the user is physically present at the time of authentication, and reduces the possibility of identity theft and criminal access to the authentication process.
[November 8, 2001, 10:04]
Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
Blog It is no surprise to me that identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the world when user security and integrity are largely misunderstood and ignored. Confidentiality, privacy of information, is required to keep information secret.
[September 18, 2007, 19:53]
Jeremy Clarkson's Guide To Avoiding ID Theft
Blog In particular, he recently indulged in punditry concerning ID theft, telling the readers of his Sun newspaper column that it was all nonsense. It means 'to be comprehensively shafted, vanquished, taken advantage of, beaten or otherwise shaken down...
[January 7, 2008, 15:46]
Insurance fraud adds to mobile theft figures
News The recent surge in mobile phone theft is partly caused by fraudulent insurance claims, according to latest research from the mobile industry. The MPICAF's claim comes just days after the Home Office announced new measures to tackle mobile phone...
[May 7, 2002, 18:39]
Intel: We won't track ID chips
News Gelsinger added that the new initiative would not be used to combat illegal overclocking and chip theft -- two possible uses for the technology. Instead, applications vendors and Web sites can use the numbers to link a PC with a user's identity...
[January 22, 1999, 9:14]
Software file-sharers face crackdown
News Ten ISPs received a High Court order on Monday instructing them to hand over details of the alleged unauthorised file-sharers to the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), a pressure group that represents the software industry.
[January 31, 2006, 12:20]
Rights groups call for ID tracking laws
News Is fraud or ID theft a greater social concern than privacy? In the real world, transactions are authenticated with cash, not with your identity," said Schwartz, adding that a similar method should be used in cyberspace.
[March 9, 1999, 9:46]
Blanket hack muffles RIAA site - again
News We will continue to fight theft on the Internet and work hard to make sure that songwriters, artists and other copyright holders continue to get paid for their work. In the battle to deter illegal online file swapping, the RIAA won a critical round...
[January 28, 2003, 8:15]
Level 3 falls victim to data centre robbery
News The theft is the latest in a line of break-ins affecting communications companies. IT professionals contacted by ZDNet UK questioned the security levels at the major London data centres, saying the identity of visitors is often not checked.
[November 2, 2006, 16:38]
SOCA: Beware the IT mafia
News He said: "We have fraud and ID theft but one of the big threats still comes from the trusted insiders. According to SOCA's annual plan, around 40 percent of its efforts will be directed towards combating drugs trafficking; 25 percent towards...
[April 25, 2006, 15:30]
Police use UV marking to fight mobile theft
News The UV marking team started work on 11 February, and is targeting areas with the highest levels of mobile theft. Police officers are also urging mobile users to record their IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) numbers.
[February 28, 2002, 12:59]
Total cluster****
Talkback That database is ID theft on the hoof and that's only one point against it. It is the database, the National Identity Register that is the main problem for most of us. The whole conception is a mess and a badly thought out one.
[November 7, 2008, 19:17]
Stolen e-passports 'worth millions' on black market
News The Foreign Office has launched an urgent inquiry into the theft and Greater Manchester Police has launched a criminal investigation. But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman said: "Our high-tech security features mean that these passports...
[July 30, 2008, 9:25]
Ruling means dark days for P2P users?
News Individuals accused of copyright infringement as a result of file swapping activities could also face criminal charges under the No Electronic Theft Act, with a guilty verdict carrying a maximum three-year prison sentence as well as fines up to...
[April 28, 2003, 9:44]
Yahoo!, ISPs dig in against labels
News Like the sound recordings implicated by the RIAA's subpoena, the motion pictures produced and distributed by MPAA members are persistently subject to theft by Internet pirates. In July, the RIAA invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA...
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
