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Round-Up Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary are accused of "identity theft" in the posters, which promise to make their fingerprints publicly available if captured. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed-looking Scottish gentleman.
[11 Apr 2008]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Satellites free the roads from snow and ice ¦ The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes ¦ silicon.com Classics: A London pub crawl… with...
[10 Apr 2008]
Comment Identity theft is rife. With identity theft now rife and rising steadily, keeping one's online personal information to an absolute minimum looks increasingly important. At last month's e-Crime Congress in London we heard how criminals are becoming...
[08 Apr 2008]
Comment There is the regular loss of confidential personal data by large companies and government agencies, such as HMRC, or, at the more sophisticated end of the spectrum, advanced identity theft from persistent bots and new exploits that seek to...
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment Yet sharing it so frequently must also contribute to the problem of identity theft - the very thing it is designed to prevent. Yet today I freely exposed my own personal information about 10 times to various vendors and agencies without a single...
[25 Feb 2008]
Comment The analyst firm warns web 2.0 applications could herald widespread identity theft and transaction fraud, give malware a new infection super highway, erode social networks and eventually create a total consumer loss of confidence in the web platform.
[26 Nov 2007]
Comment And at a time of extreme data sensitivity, with identity theft and fraud rife, you'd think its importance would have sunk in. An oversight of this nature recently stung UK bank Nationwide, which was fined nearly £1m over a laptop theft that was...
[13 Sep 2007]
Round-Up Sounding ominously like a recipe for identity theft, the details contained on the laptop included employee salaries, national insurance numbers, dates of birth and addresses. Marks & Sparks duly responded by informing all staff and offering free...
[11 May 2007]
Comment In any case, if you happen to be a clever, organised computer criminal indulging in identity theft, the chances of 'doing bird' are low enough to make cyber crime an attractive career option. It's largely about protecting identity - the Achilles...
[07 Mar 2007]
Leader A company called 3V in this case has conducted research which shows consumers are more worried about identity theft than gun crime, climate change and hospital superbug MRSA. Security companies have long been aware there is money to be made from...
[23 Jan 2007]
Round-Up A statement from the Met said: "We believe the risk of staff members falling victim to either fraudulent activity or identity theft is minimal. The Round-Up knows it is being slightly churlish and unfair here but it also can't help noticing the one...
[24 Nov 2006]
Leader This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had suffered the theft of a laptop which contained customer account information. F is for Federated identity The Financial Services Authority is currently investigating.
[14 Nov 2006]
Comment Next year's e-Crime Congress in London will focus on identity theft and the BBC reported this week that phishing has caused a rise in the amount of money lost to online banking fraud in the first half of this year.
[08 Nov 2006]
Round-Up Another reader, Graham Coles, added: "How can you ever educate people in reducing identity theft when they have to give out all of the details they would normally shred just to get a drink? Back to the subject of identity theft the Round-Up was...
[27 Oct 2006]
Leader We've heard before how UK citizens are running the risk of identity theft by binning sensitive documents such as bank statements or other papers with personally identifying material. As such, this week has been declared National identity theft...
[16 Oct 2006]
Comment I suffered identity theft myself last year when my debit card was cloned and £2,000 cleaned out of my account. In the past 18 months, according to reports by privacy watchdog groups, the incidents of identity theft in the US alone have been 148 and...
[06 Oct 2006]
Leader Of course, many biometric systems will be linked to a token (such as a smart card) to cut down on identity theft but the fundamental point remains - discarded biometrics will have a value to thieves and will need to be protected.
[24 Jul 2006]
Comment We're sending the responsibility for safe-guarding data to countries where legislation and law-enforcement efforts to deter the risk of fraud and identity theft are not in any way comparable with the UK.
[25 May 2006]
Comment While only one per cent of companies reported financial theft or fraud, these events were among the most serious and costly incidents, in some cases running into several millions of pounds. An effective identity and access management system should...
[19 Apr 2006]
Comment The Congress had heard reports that suggested a dramatic escalation in business and personal losses since the previous year's event, and 21 per cent of the audience admitted to have had personal experience of identity theft over the period with 11...
[11 Apr 2006]
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