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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]
ID Theft: Should you believe the hype?
News About two-thirds of what is reported as ID theft in the US today is credit card fraud, against which cardholders are often legally protected, according to US Federal Trade Commission data released earlier this year.
[October 25, 2005, 16:10]
Survey: ID theft costing UK billions in taxes
News Billions of pounds of taxpayers' money is stolen each year through ID theft and other fraudulent activities, according to a survey of public sector security analysts and IT managers. The government has been fast-tracking its scheme to roll out ID...
[July 14, 2004, 17:10]
ID Theft: Should you believe the hype?
Talkback This is why I laugh when I see the law enforcement posters warning against ID theft! Here in the U.S.purchase a scanner and monitor public safety transmissions. THE POLICE will provide you with victims, names, addresses, birthdates, license numbers...
[November 1, 2005, 3:00]
ID theft gang smashed
News The gang used a variety of physical and online ID theft tricks to get access to confidential personal bank account details and PIN numbers. Professor Charles Munn, from the CSCB, said: "Identity theft is fast becoming a major focus for criminal...
[March 4, 2005, 11:20]
ID theft: The next IT industry boom?
News Cannady, from IBM's client security product management, told ZDNet that corporate ID theft would allow criminals to order goods on company accounts or conduct industrial sabotage. As e-business grows, online fraud will evolve from stealing credit...
[June 13, 2002, 8:52]
Survey: ID theft costing UK billions in taxes
Talkback Social Security and Benefits fraud may well be running at around £2 billion a year, but the "identity theft" component of this is only around £50 million, out of total payments of over £100 billion a year.
[July 15, 2004, 1:36]
Police arrest UK suspect in anti-ID theft operation
News A nineteen year-old man from Camberley, Surrey, was bailed on Wednesday night pending further enquiries after police arrested him for suspected involvement in an identity theft network. Arrests were made in the US and six other countries on charges...
[October 29, 2004, 15:14]
Liberty Alliance takes on ID theft
News In 54 percent of the ID theft cases, the perpetrator is somebody the victim knows, such as a relative, friend or domestic employee, he said. The group could be a clearinghouse for ID theft issues, but really its strength is in developing technical...
[June 14, 2005, 15:50]
Insiders pose ID theft threat
News What we're seeing increasingly is ID theft that occurred because some insider sees information and steals it from a company. Complaints about identity theft have risen 73 percent from a year ago, according to a new report from the Federal Trade...
[January 23, 2003, 13:32]
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]
Security guru urges banks to beat ID theft
News Banks and other financial institutions need to do more to beat the problem of identity theft, according to a leading information security expert. Writing in the latest issue of Wired, Schneier says that banks haven't solved the problem of identity...
[October 7, 2005, 16:10]
'One in four' touched by ID theft
News A quarter of adults have been a victim identity theft or know someone who has been affected by it, an investigation by Which? Despite the growing fear of identity theft, Brits are surprising lax about taking easy steps to keep their personal...
[March 4, 2005, 11:30]
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. Here's my Word Of The Decade: Pwnd. It means 'to be comprehensively shafted, vanquished, taken advantage...
[January 7, 2008, 15:46]
IT Solutions have equal and exceed the ID theft problem
Talkback What is to stop terrorists from hiring a chunker for theft, sabotage or money laundering and not telling him why as if a chunker would care. The Swedish theft could be anyone and used by anyone for anything already blocked.
[January 26, 2007, 14:20]
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. Criminals would also find ways around biometric ID cards by...
[September 6, 2005, 9:10]
Schneier: ID cards will worsen ID theft
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has slated the UK's ID card scheme, saying that not only will it not solve e-crime, it will also make ID theft worse. ID theft is fraud due to impersonation. The security guru told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the risks...
[April 27, 2006, 12:50]
Six face sentencing for Internet fraud, ID theft
News ID theft is growing concern for both individuals and corporations alike. Six men will be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday, after pleading guilty to using the Internet to defraud UK banks to the tune of £350,000.
[November 21, 2003, 10:50]
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]
1,500 government staff hit by ID theft scam
Talkback The OS vendor should shoulder the blame for this intrusion and be held responsible for making buggy software, regardless of who it is.
[December 5, 2005, 12:48]
