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India takes step on ID Card road
Blog According to a US DHS document from last October, "identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America. India has taken a step towards provision of biometric ID Cards for all citizens. The Hindu mentioned the supposed benefits of this...
[November 11, 2008, 12:18]
Protection offered against ID theft keylogger
News Security firm Sunbelt Software discovered a huge identity-theft ring late last week. Companies and individual Internet users can now protect themselves against a dangerous piece of malware which steals personal information such as credit card and...
[August 11, 2005, 15:40]
Government creates ID card agency
Talkback It won't stop, or even slow down terrorism; it will be a positive boon for ID theft and unless the police are going to spend all their time doing street stop searches on "Dodgy Looking" (read ethnic minority) people, it won't do anything for...
[April 3, 2006, 11:32]
ID theft scandal hits outsourced call centres
News The kind of details they provided was alarming - not just the names and addresses of Australian customers but also their telephone numbers, birth certificate details, Medicare numbers, driver's license numbers (and) ATM card numbers.
[August 17, 2005, 9:25]
FBI investigating ID theft at Stanford
News However, some recruiter records included credit card information. The FBI is investigating a computer system security breach at Stanford University that may have put the personal information of nearly 10,000 people at risk, the university said on...
[May 26, 2005, 10:20]
Tens of thousands hit by ID theft ring
News An estimated 27,000 people have been affected by an identity theft ring that was discovered earlier this month, according to Sunbelt Software, the security firm that uncovered the operation. Eric Sites, the vice-president of research and...
[August 24, 2005, 17:55]
Massive ID theft nabs 55,000 student records
News In February, a data processing centre in Nebraska revealed that eight million credit card numbers had been stolen from its servers, and, in January, the University of Kansas acknowledged that online attackers had snagged the records of 1,400...
[March 7, 2003, 13:03]
Government denies ID card climbdown
News Home secretary David Blunkett has already expressed his support for entitlement cards -- which he says would be used to prevent identity theft and fraud and would also help citizens to access government services.
[January 24, 2003, 14:55]
Zombie networks implicated in ID theft
News Botnets - otherwise known as zombie networks - collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet...
[March 15, 2005, 8:15]
ZoneAlarm adds ID theft protection
News Check Point Software Technologies on Monday released an update to ZoneAlarm that comes with new features to protect against identity theft. As part of the new identity fraud defenses, users will be alerted when their credit card number shows up for...
[June 6, 2006, 10:45]
ID theft: The next IT industry boom?
News As e-business grows, online fraud will evolve from stealing credit card numbers to corporate identity theft, having profound implications on companies' bottom lines and employee behaviour, according to IBM's Stacy Cannady.
[June 13, 2002, 8:52]
ID theft gang thwarts police with encryption
News Three ID thieves have been jailed for their part in a massive data theft operation. One of the ringleaders of the gang, Anton Dolgov — also known as Gelonkin — was sentenced to six years at Harrow Crown Court on Wednesday for his part in the theft...
[December 18, 2006, 11:16]
Survey: ID theft costing UK billions in taxes
Talkback Instances of forged signatures or cracked computer passwords or credit card numbers may be Fraud or Counterfeiting but they are NOT "Identity Theft" which does not appear on any statute as a crime.phishing", despite the hype has not even netted...
[July 15, 2004, 1:36]
ID card details emerge in bill
News A Home Office statement issued to coincide with the bill said that the scheme "will provide a simple and secure 'gold standard' for proving identity, protecting people from identity fraud and theft and providing them with a convenient means of...
[November 30, 2004, 14:25]
Banks 'must try harder' on ID theft
News Having said that, what is required is strategy for dealing with ID theft. Identity theft has been in the headlines again in recent weeks in both the US and in the UK, where an undercover reporter from one tabloid newspaper, The Sun, was promised...
[July 5, 2005, 11:40]
International crackdown nets ID theft ring
News In an investigation that led from online forums to a passport-forging facility in Bulgaria, law enforcement officials arrested in the last 48 hours suspects from eight US states and six other countries on charges of identity theft, computer fraud...
[October 29, 2004, 8:54]
Opposition grows in ID card debate
News Back in July 2002 the UK government launched a six-month consultation into entitlement cards, which it claims could help combat fraud and identity theft, and deliver public services more effectively. Opposition is growing against the introduction...
[January 15, 2003, 16:36]
New technology 'making ID theft easier'
News Chip and PIN technology and ID cards will make it easier for criminals to engage in fraud and identity theft instead of tackling the problem, according to a leading criminologist. Research carried out by the university found criminals are 'shoulder...
[September 6, 2005, 9:10]
One last chance for ID card sanity
Talkback Like mistaken identity theft. Why spend ridiculous money on an ineffective, compulsory national id card scheme which has no effective means of combatting crime, or terrorism. Look at the Madrid bombings last year, where compulsory national id...
[May 17, 2005, 0:03]
University suffers massive ID data theft
News However, it is possible that the data on the server could be used for identity theft. But the server with the ID card information still stored Social Security numbers in its database, according to the George Mason email.
[January 11, 2005, 7:40]
