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May 26, 2009

Memorial Day & ID Theft Using Info Of Deceased

Every year since probably my first year on this world I've visited cemetaries on the Sunday right before Memorial Day. My parents' reasoning was that we could get the graves and headstones decorated (Memorial Day is also known as Decoration Day) so that those visiting on Monday would see them. Probably where I got my habit of always arriving to meetings and events WAY too early! :)

This past Sunday my family drove my father out to three cemetaries to once more continue this tradition...

 
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April 14, 2009

"Secure Your ID Day" is April 18

I'm in Omaha to speak tomorrow at the Infotec09 conference and I heard on the local news that "Secure Your ID Day" is April 18...

 
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March 24, 2009

Many Motivators For Identity Theft

I've heard far too many business leaders in lesser-regulated industries, of organizations of all sizes, say something to the effect of, "Oh, we don't have any information that hackers would find of any value."

 
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March 17, 2009

Computer Fraud Criminal Sentenced To 4 1/2 Yrs Jailtime + US$1.6 Million

Would you notice a $20 - $30 fraudulent charge mixed in with a lot of other charges...most people have more than 10 according to a financial fraud expert friend...on your credit card statement?

It looks like in Bulgaria they really lower the sanctions boom on those committing computer fraud..

 
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February 20, 2009

Medical Identity Theft: Medical Equipment Co. Owner Sentenced to Prison


I just ran across this U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) press release from January 20, 2009...

 
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February 2, 2009

Txt Phishing (Vishing) In Iowa: MetaBank NOT Calling!

Boy, all throughout the day I heard on the radio, and it was all over the noon and evening news, that Iowa customers of MetaBank were receiving text messages on their phones to call MetaBank about unusual activity in their account...

 
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November 7, 2008

Cybercriminals Threaten To Post Millions Of PII Records For Express Scripts Customers

Just last month I blogged about the new Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008. It covers extortion. I'm interested to see if it gets used for the latest extortion attempt...

 
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October 28, 2008

The Insider Threat For Identity Theft: Watchout For Dead-Beat Parents

Here's a story that points to how vulnerable people are to identity theft and other types of crimes and frauds from slimy family...and ex-family...members...

 
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October 25, 2008

Hackers Are "Rattlesnakes Without the Rattles"

Research into the psychology of hackers has been going on ever since Cap'n Crunch cereal whistles were used to make free phone calls to anywhere in the world.

I saw the ABC News article...

 
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September 19, 2008

Tomorrow is "Secure Your ID" Day

This morning I was listening to my usual favorite radio station and was somewhat surprised to hear a guest talk about how he was going to be at a local grocery store parking lot tomorrow to offer free shredding services to help raise awareness of identity theft and in observation of "Secure Your ID" Day...

 
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Rebecca Herold's Bio:

Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.