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Technology for securing your credit card transactions while conducting online purchases is described in this article.
Single-use credit cards fight fraud. A number of companies are offering disposable credit card numbers for online purchase transactions.
Gartner Study Finds Significant Increase in E-Mail Phishing Attacks: “Phishing attacks by hackers against online consumers have become so widespread that an estimated 57 million Americans likely have received these fraudulent e-mails, according to a new study released today by Gartner, Inc. Direct losses from identity theft fraud against these phishing attack victims cost U.S. …
An online survey conducted in April indicates “that 75% of accountholders are less likely to respond to email from their banks, and over 65% said they were less likely to sign-up or continue to use their banks online services.” These results reflect growing consumer concern with phishing and email fraud, occurrences of which are increasingly …
Yesterday, California Senate Bill 1436, the Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, sponsored by Senator Kevin Murray, won approval by the Judiciary Committee. In addition, Assembly Bill 2787, which prohibits the download of spyware to a computer in California, was approved by the Committee on Judiciary.
Excerpts from an AP interview with ChoicePoint Inc. (CPS) chairman Derek Smith.
Spyware: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, Hearing by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, April 29, 2004 [Link to Witness List & Prepared Testimony, Related Documents and Bills.] See also Congress Eager to Ban Spyware and related postings on the subject.
From Websense’s fifth annual Web@Work survey, April 26: “92 Percent of Organizations with at Least 100 Employees Have Been Contaminated With Spyware, Yet Only Six Percent of Employees Believe They Have Been Infected.” In related news, see A Web of Electronic Denial
FTC Working to Protect Consumers and Businesses from Information Security Breaches Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Protecting Our Nation’s Cyberspace, Presented by Commissioner Orson Swindle Before the Subcommittee On Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Census of the Committee On Government Reform, United States House of Representatives (April 21, 2004). FTC …
From yesterday’s FTC Spyware Workshop, the Consumer Software Working Group Examples of Unfair, Deceptive or Devious Practices Involving Software, “endorsed by a broad coalition of software companies, Internet service providers, anti-spyware technology vendors, and consumer groups convened by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).” For additional resources, see CDT’s Spyware page. See also Few …
The BBC reports that the results of recent surveys of London commuters, requesting their PC login passwords in exchange for chocolate, were that a majority of respondents provided them without hesitation. Must be really good chocolate! In addition, the survey established that pet names are all too often passwords of choice, and are also willingly …
