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I feel like my head is going to explode. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled “that using someone else’s Social Security number is not identity theft as long as you use your own name with it.” The def...
Living in the Northeast has its pros and cons. We have the four seasons, great food, entertainment, sports, everything is at your fingertips, and for me it’s where business gets done. Drawbacks includ...
The Seoul G20 summit should be the final step before we enter in the “Basel III era”. This set of regulations will mark one of the most significant developments since the original Basel accord in 1988...
Today’s criminal hackers are very different than those who hacked for fun and fame a decade ago. Every week, I see stories about more criminals in faraway lands, making millions from various scams, em...
Something happened last week that was so extraordinary, I had to blink and rub my eyes to really believe they weren’t deceiving me! If you have read my blogs before, you will know I regularly highligh...
A botnet is a group of Internet-connected personal computers that have been infected by a malicious application, which allows a hacker to control the infected computers without alerting the computer o...
“Spear phishing” refers to phishing scams that are directed at a specific target. Like when Tom Hanks was stranded on the island in the movie Cast Away. He whittled a spear and targeted specific fish,...
Quangos aren't organisations that receive the best of press - even when they do a good job! The Audit Commission has had its fair share of critics over the years. But, unlike many quangos, it has play...
It is that tradeshow time of year when specific communities disappear out of the office to meet up with other people to do the physical rather than virtual/social networking. This last week it was S
#1 Publically available information is not valuable to an identity thief. If I was an identity thief I’d start with the phone book. All information about you is of value to an identity thief. The bad ...
Shock. Horror. Criminal gangs are doing their utmost to hijack UK legal firms! No, we're not talking about the synopsis to a sequel to The Firm, John Grisham's best-selling novel about a US law pract
We often hear about data breaches in the news and the unfortunate victim whose operations have been devastated. But more often than not, this is as far as data security extends into our worlds. Do we ...