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E-Commerce Times: Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft, Part 1 Developing Best Practices to Combat ID Theft, Part 2 Securing Your Online ID: Beyond Username and Password Is That Really You? ID Theft and Authentication, Part 1 New Layers of Defense: ID Theft and Authentication, Part 2
“On April 23 and 24, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission will host a public workshop, Proof Positive: New Directions in ID Authentication, to explore methods to reduce identity theft through enhanced authentication. The workshop will facilitate a discussion among public-sector, private-sector, and consumer representatives, and will focus on technological and policy requirements for developing better …
Findings from a new study by ID Analytics, reported by ComputerWeek, indicate that “….the riskiest states for ID theft are New York, California, Nevada and Arizona, while the safest ones are Wyoming, Vermont, Montana and North Dakota. The riskiest 5-digit zip codes for ID theft — after Floral Park and Faulkton — are Old Bethpage, …
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a service that sends out electronic mail (e-mail) alerts when new and vital information is posted on the FBI.gov Web site. Subscribers select which topics that they want updates on, such as new electronic scams (e-scams) and warnings, most wanted terrorists, top ten fugitives, and local and …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued its annual report, Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft Complaint Data on complaints consumers have filed with the agency. For the seventh year in a row, identity theft tops the list, accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006. Other …
New York State Office of the CIO: “Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides an effective way to protect computer-based services and data for all state and local agencies from unauthorized access. Organizational business requirements often result in the need to grant external users access to services and data or to achieve multi-organizational system interoperability. Demand …
Inspection Letter Report, Alleged Loss or Theft of Personally Identifiable Information at Pantex, February 2, 2007.
The Emperor’s New Security Indicators, An evaluation of website authentication and the effect of role playing on usability studies, working draft released February 4, 2007. Authors: Stuart E. Schechter (MIT), Rachna Dhamija (Harvard), Andy Ozmet (MIT), Ian Fischer (Harvard).
“The Javelin 2007 Identity Fraud Survey Report provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of identity fraud in the United States, in order to help consumers and businesses better understand the effectiveness of methods used for its prevention, detection and resolution. A nationally representative sample of over 5,000 US adults, including 458 fraud victims, is surveyed via …
Convergence of Physical and Cyber Technologies and Related Security Management Challenges Working Group Final Report and Recommendations (PDF, 42 pages), January 19, 2007 and Transmittal Letter (PDF, 2 pages), January 19, 2007.
Press release: “The University of New Hampshire Cyber Threat Calculator was unveiled Thursday, January 25, 2007, at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri. The UNH Cyber Threat Calculator was developed by researchers at UNH Justiceworks and students, and offers a new method to identify and quantify the threats posed …
Best Practices Suggestions Document: “Building upon the Definitions and Risk Model documents, the Best Practices document aims to expand past defining what behaviors and consent factors will currently make software potentially unwanted and to focus upon making the marketplace better. This document highlights the sorts of technological behaviors that limit the negative impact of potentially …
