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Follow-up to September 19, 2006 posting, President’s Identity Theft Task Force Announces Interim Recommendations, today OMB issued a memorandum of Recommendations for Identity Theft Related Data Breach Notification, from Clay Johnson, Deputy Director for Management. “We…recommend that each agency identify in advance a core management group that will be convened upon the identification of a …
FTC press release: “The Presidents Identity Theft Task Force has adopted interim recommendations on measures that can be implemented immediately to help address the problem of identity theft, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras announced today.”
Press release: Carnegie Mellon CyLab researchers create new system to address phishing fraud [ZDNet] Phoolproof Phishing Prevention – Bryan Parno, Cynthia Kuo, Adrian Perrig: “Phishing attacks exploit a users inability to distinguish legitimate websites from spoofed websites. Unfortunately, humans are ill-suited for performing the security checks necessary for secure site identification. Phoolproof Phishing Prevention uses …
From the Antiphishing Working Group, the June Phishing Activity Trends Report.
Ponemon Institute Releases National Survey on Confidential Data at Risk “Stored data presents unique challenges for enterprise security, and the U.S. Survey: Confidential Data at Risk is a first-of-its-kind study on the topic. Derived from a national sampling of nearly 500 experienced information security practitioners, the survey reveals a number of key findings, including: 81 …
Consumer Alert: New Phishing Attack Claims to be FDIC “The FDIC is aware of a phishing e-mail that has the appearance of being sent from the FDIC. The name “Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” appears on the “From” line and the subject is, “IMPORTANT: Notification of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.” This e-mail claims that the FDIC …
Follow up to August 9, 2006 posting, AOL Data Breach Causes Privacy Group to File Complaint With FTC, news today “the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)…asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate America Online (AOL) and require changes in its privacy practices, after the company recently released search history logs that exposed the private lives …
Industry, Government Fret Over Tactics for Fighting Data Theft, by Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal, August 10, 2006.
StopBadware.org Blog: “We’re entering a new phase here at StopBadware.org. Googlewhich is one of our partnerswill present people with a warning before they visit websites that have been reported to StopBadware.org as sites that distribute badware. These warnings currently link to a general page on StopBadware.org, but as we finish researching sites, we’ll replace the …
Press release: “Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME), Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, today introduced the “Small Business Information Security Act of 2006,” (S. 3786) legislation that will create the “Small Business Information Security Task Force” within the Small Business Administration to help small businesses both understand the information security challenges …
Into the Breach: Security Breaches and Identity Theft/Research Report July 2006 “Security breaches of data files can lead to identity theft. In this AARP Public Policy Institute Data Digest, Neal Walters analyzes 244 breaches between January 1, 2005 and May 26, 2006, and finds that 40 percent were caused by hackers or insider access …
GSA press release: “The U.S. General Services Administrations (GSA) Office of Citizens Services & Communications is warning the public to avoid falling victim to a recent e-mail scheme that targets users by sending unsolicited e-mails allegedly from FirstGov, the citizen portal operated by GSA. These scam e-mails tell recipients that because of recent fraudulent activities …
