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Crooks Don't Need to Steal SSNs If They Can Create Valid SSNs Themselves

I've had some very interesting discussions about the CMU SSN study throughout the week, and, before moving on to other topics next week, I wanted to wrap up the week and discussion with some final thoughts on the CMU SSN...

Implications Of The CMU SSN Study: What Business Leaders Need To Understand

Following the release of the CMU SNN report on Monday, I've had some very interesting discussions with privacy and information security folks, and I've been pretty amazed at some of the reactions to the study. I also posted about this...

Missouri Dept of Revenue Sued (Under DPPA) For Releasing PII That Was Posted for Sale on the Internet

It used to be very common for various state and local government agencies, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, to sell their records, containing vasts amounts of personally identifiable information (PII), as a revenue stream. That changed when Rebecca...

Social Engineering Suckers Security Sages

Yesterday at Black Hat a couple of the presenters, Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel, reportedly discussed their experiment that revealed how easily they got some prominent Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to fall for a social engineering scam played...

Social Engineering, Ethics, and Why You Should Never Put Anything Online That You Don't Want Others To See

Okay, now here's an example of how people will take information you've given them, under false pretenses, just because they can, and post it for the world to see, with no regrets about how it hurts other people....

Social Engineering Rescues Long-Time Hostages

Yesterday it was widely reported that 15 hostages held by Colombia's Marxist guerrillas for as long as 6 years were freed after some very brave and daring commandos posed as being part of the guerrilla group. The news reports described...

Social Engineering Schemes Increase: Great Case Study From An Actual Event

Last month I finished the second issue of my Protecting Information publication and the topic couldn't be more timely: social engineering. Just today I have already read in my daily news items 5 articles about social engineering! One in particular,...

Show "Home Alone" To Raise Social Engineering Awareness

I hope those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving had a great one! I spent a very nice day with my family at my brother's house. After getting back home we decided to watch some Christmas movies, so we spent the...

07/07/07! Lucky for Cybercriminals?

I've always been fascinated with numbers. Math has always been fun, and one of my degrees is in math. I've never really studied numerology, but today's date, 07/07/07, only happens once each century, and it is interesting to see how...

Social Engineering & the Need for Awareness & Training: Fraudsters Are Calling Businesses Pretending to Be SEC Staff Members

Another example of a social engineering scam, and another example of why awareness and training are so important for safeguarding information... On May 10th the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a press release warning that imposters were calling...

Information Security & Privacy Awareness: Engage Personnel In Thinking About the Issues To Improve Security and Privacy

It really bothers me when so-called information security and privacy "experts" make statements that awareness activities have no impact. They base their opinions on measurements that could very well be, and likely are, unrelated to each other. Last year a...

Keyloggers + Social Engineering = Identity Theft: Fraudsters Exploit Human Frailties with Seductive Messages

Fraudsters and cybercriminals continue to find creative ways to exploit technology and human weakness to facilitate their crimes. Another new exploit they are using is hijacking popular Google search terms, typically targeting bank sites, and then inserting HTML into the...

Awareness and Training Example: Privacy Impacts Throughout the Day

There was a very interesting article in the Washington Post today, "Enjoying Technology's Conveniences But Not Escaping Its Watchful Eyes" This documentary of the day in the life of a woman shows how privacy issues are encountered throughout the day,...

Data Mining Doesn't Always Pay: $1.135 Million Judgment

On November 29 Judge Clarence Cooper of Atlanta's U.S. District Court ordered that Tamarac, Fla.-based 1st Source Information Specialists Inc. and company principals Kenneth W. Gorman and Steven Schwartz disgorge all profits and pay Cingular Wireless compensatory and punitive damages...

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