From Mark Gibbs’ “Debt collectors mining your secrets” (Network World: 19 June 2008):
[Bud Hibbs, a consumer advocate] told me any debt collection company has access to an incredible amount of personal data from hundreds of possible sources and the motivation to mine it.
What intrigued me after talking with Hibbs was how the debt collection [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2008 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Mitigating Identity Theft” (Crypto-Gram: 15 April 2005):
The very term “identity theft” is an oxymoron. Identity is not a possession that can be acquired or lost; it’s not a thing at all. …
The real crime here is fraud; more specifically, impersonation leading to fraud. Impersonation is an ancient crime, but the rise of [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “More on Two-Factor Authentication” (Crypto-Gram: 15 April 2005):
Passwords just don’t work anymore. As computers have gotten faster, password guessing has gotten easier. Ever-more-complicated passwords are required to evade password-guessing software. At the same time, there’s an upper limit to how complex a password users can be expected to remember. About five years [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Identity-Theft Disclosure Laws” (Crypto-Gram Newsletter: 15 May 2006):
Disclosure laws force companies to make these security breaches public. This is a good idea for three reasons. One, it is good security practice to notify potential identity theft victims that their personal information has been lost or stolen. Two, statistics on actual data thefts [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Indian call centre ‘fraud’ probe (BBC News: 23 June 2005):
Police are investigating reports that the bank account details of 1,000 UK customers, held by Indian call centres, were sold to an undercover reporter.
The Sun claims one of its journalists bought personal details including passwords, addresses and passport data from a Delhi IT worker for [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Michael Alter’s States fiddle while defrauders steal (CNET News.com: 21 June 2005):
More than 9 million American consumers fall victim to identity theft each year. But the most underpublicized identity theft crime is one in which thieves defraud state governments of payroll taxes by filing fraudulent unemployment claims.
It can be a fairly lucrative scheme, too. [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From David Kirkpatrick’s “The Net’s not-so-secret economy of crime” (Fortune: 15 May 2006):
Raze Software offers a product called CC2Bank 1.3, available in freeware form - if you like it, please pay for it. …
But CC2Bank’s purpose is the management of stolen credit cards. Release 1.3 enables you to type in any credit card number and [...]
Posted on June 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From TechWeb News’s “One In Four Identity-Theft Victims Never Fully Recover“:
Making things right after a stolen identity can take months and cost thousands, a survey of identity theft victims released Tuesday said. Worse, in more than one in four cases, victims haven’t been able to completely restore their good name.
The survey, conducted by Nationwide Mutual [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From danah boyd’s “G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide“:
In the early 1970s, Stanley Milgram was intrigued by what he called “familiar strangers” - people who recognized each other in public life but never interacted. Through experiments, he found that people are most likely to interact with people when removed from the situation in [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From danah boyd’s “G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide“:
Culture is the set of values, norms and artifacts that influence people’s lives and worldview. Culture is embedded in material objects and in conceptual frameworks about how the world works. …
People are a part of multiple cultures - the most obvious of which are constructed [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From The New York Times‘ “Countless Dens of Uncatchable Thieves“:
In the online world, he operates under the pseudonym Zo0mer, according to American investigators, and he smugly hawks all manner of stolen consumer information alongside dozens of other peddlers at a Web site he helps manage.
“My prices are lowers then most of other vendors have and [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From danah boyd’s “Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?“:
No, it is not just a moral panic that could make MySpace a fad. The primary value right now has to do with identity production and sharing, practices that are more critical to certain populations at certain times in their lives and it is possible [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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