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- National Meeting Focuses on New Type of Crime
- Wardriving Burglars Hacked Business Wi-
Fi Networks - SMBs Should Protect Against Identity Theft
- Identity theft puts small businesses at risk
- ID theft also putting small businesses at risk
- "Fraud: A 360 View" Fundtech White Paper Reveals Widespread Bank Cyber Crime Challenges
- Business identity theft is growing threat
- Invisus Launches First Business Identity Theft Protection Service
- How can I protect my small business against internal fraud?
- FUNDTECH : “Fraud: A 360° View” White Paper Reveals Widespread Bank Cyber Crime Challenges
- Gale warns of growing threat from business identity theft
- 10 threats against small business data security
- Lack of emphasis on security causing Web breaches
- Identity Theft Blamed In Hundreds Of Wrongful Arrests
- Scam watch: Child identity theft, credit repair, investments
- Britain, America Unite Against Identity Theft Trends
- It’s ‘National Protect Your Identity Week’
- Protecting Your Child’s Personal Information At School
- Seniors Being Targeted For Identity Theft Scam
- Five Ways To Protect Your Identity Right Now
- Identity thieves selling children's Social Security numbers online
- Study: ID protection tools work, but you'd better comparison shop
- LifeLock, other ID theft 'protection' services over-
promise, under- deliver: Money Matters - FREEDOM VIEW: Snooping bill raises risk of ID theft
- Better Business Bureau Warns of "Friendly Fraud"
- Tips On Detecting And Avoiding Identity Theft
- From phishing to vishing to baiting, there’s a world of crooks wanting to steal your identity
- Guilford County Leaks Taxpayers Personal Data On Its Website
- ID theft website launched
- Texas Police Chief Association suffers data breach, with sensitive documents and emails published
- Senate Dem wants stiffer identity theft penalties
- New Study Finds More Than One in Three Canadians More Concerned of Identity Theft
Job searches can lead to scams - Coping with identity theft
- Tips For College-
Bound Students To Prevent Identity Theft - 9 steps to take if your credit card data is hacked
- Prosecutor seeks probe of leaked medical records
- Yale warns 43,000 about 10-
month- long data breach - Woman has 101 Social Security numbers, 7 dates of birth: Identity thieves are busy
in metro-
east - Warning Issued by Denver Dumpster: Roll off Container Could Lead to Identify Theft
- Doctors questioned over security after data breach
- Health Net Widens Scope of Data Breach Stemming From Lost Hard Drives
- Health Net “Alerts” Customers to 6-
Month- Old Data Breach - Identity Theft Tied To Illegal Immigration
- Pentagon files lost in data breach involving a US Department of Defense contractor
- Identity theft plagues consumers
- MSSB data breach is a lesson for advisers
- Booz Allen confirms data breach
- Your Old Smartphone's Data Can Come Back to Haunt You
- FBI Agent Shares Tips On Fighting Identity Theft
- Sony extends ID theft protection deal to PSN users
- Iowa Toddlers Identity Theft Case Uncovered
- Report: Morgan Stanley warns 34,000 clients of data breach
- Epsilon Breach: Small Businesses Who Get “Hacked”
- Largest payroll processing firm probes data breach at unit
- IRS identity theft keeps innocent taxpayers waiting months to receive their refund
- Medical Identity Thieves Meet New Detective: The Palm Reader
- Dozens report banking breaches
- Regulators pressure banks after Citi data breach
- Citigroup Took Three Weeks to Notify Customers of Breach
- Citigroup says hackers accessed credit card data
- Frequency of Hospital Data Breaches May Impede Meaningful Use Efforts
- New Medicare Scam Targets Part B Participants
- Special Report: Protecting yourself from medical identity theft
Cybercrime
- FBI Cyber Crime Officer Warns of New ID Dangers
- Cyber-
security pits West against China, Russia - Small biz owners: Beware cyber security
- Computer related crimes on the rise
- Take Precautions To Lock Out Cyber Crime
- Peer-
to- peer update makes ZeuS botnets harder to take down - As cybercrime grows, so do the costs
- 340 million PC Browsers are out of date
- Cybercrime Getting Easier to Commit, Federal Agents Say
- 8 Steps To Keep Your PCs Safe From Online Criminals
- Cyber Crime rate escalating, says Deparment of Homeland Security
- Cyber Crime Report Shows There Are Virtually No Cops to Call On
- Hackers Targeting Kids through Internet Games for Serving Malicious Software
- Leading Botnets Have Infected Over 20 Million PCs
- Industrial cyber crime risks rising, U.S. says
- Cybercrime increase worries, vulnerable groups targeted
- Is It Time To Worry About Cybercrime?
- Cybercrime Waves
- Cybercrime: is it out of control?
- Cybercriminals go after Bitcoin online currency
- Internet providers have role in fighting botnet infection, researcher says
- FBI -
CYBER SECURITY: THREATS TO THE FINANCIAL SECTOR - ATM Heist Snares Cybercrime Czar
- Ex US internal-
security overlord bigs up cyber menace - Network Operating Botnet Hijacked by more than 2 million computers and stole about $ 100 million
- Cyber crime, still a priority
- In the "Year of the Hack," Survey Reveals Enterprises Are Most Concerned About "Advanced Persistent Threat" Attacks by Wide Margin
- International alliance fights back to contain spread of cybercrime
- How cyber crime gang stole $13 million in a day
- Why The 'Anonymous' Hackers Do What They Do
- Xpaj Botnet Intercepts 87 Million Web Searches In Click-
Fraud Scheme - FBI fights back against cybercrime
- DDoS and Hacking Services for Sale on Secret Websites
- Home computers taken over by hackers
- Conversation-
spying Android Trojan in the wild - The cyber Mafia has already hacked you
- Viewpoint: Cyberwars at full throttle in Hawaii
- Corporate Security Chiefs Focus on ‘Human’ Side of Cybercrime
- Stories about indestructible TDL-
4 botnet "alarmist" says Kaspersky - Microsoft Says Any Botnet Can be Decapitated, Destroyed
- UK Claims Cybercrime Victory After Phishing Gang Sentencing
- A Horde of 4.5 Million Zombie Computers Is Marching Towards You
- Criminal gang's European botnet may be largest ever
- Preventing cyber crime
- Bitcoin-
thieving Trojans appear in the wild - ‘Cyber crime’ fighters set up shop in Brunswick
- FBI ramping up efforts to fight hackers and cybercrime
- EU nations give nod to tougher penalties for cybercrimes
- Analysis: The hidden cost of cybercrime
- 15 Minute Video Teaches People To Hack Online Accounts
- Multiplatform Java botnet spotted in the wild
- Fighting cyber crime
- FBI seriously combating Coreflood, malicious and widespreading botnets
- Cybersecurity: SEC outlines requirement that companies report cyber theft and attack
- IT's Role in Regulatory Compliance
- Judge approves TD Ameritrade data theft settlement offering people $50-
$2,500 for ID theft - The year of the mobile security breach is here: Attacks skyrocketed in 2011
- Businesses are failing to maintain data security
- Are you up to speed with PCI DSS?
- Education joins the ranks of sectors at risk of document compliant breaches, along with health and financial services
- In credit card security, ignorance is not bliss
- Gov. Signs Simitian Data Theft Bill
- Achieving Email Compliance with the Texas Data Breach Notification Law
- Data Breach Due to Poor Business Associate Safeguards
- Can Data Breaches Kill?
- Data Breach Compliance Legislation Is Coming: Are You Ready?
- SecurID Data Breach Cost RSA $66 Million
- Deficit of security breach data 'complicates risk'
- WellPoint reaches tentative accord in data breach suit
- Companies to spend $130 billion on cybersecurity in 2011
- Tech companies support national data-
breach law - Thousands of privacy breaches going unreported
- House panel OKs national data breach notification bill
- How Fast Is Fast Enough to Tell Customers About Data Breaches?
- Opportunity Ripe to Advance Data Breach Bill, BSA Says
- Commission considers EU-
wide rules for data breach notification - Preventing the Next Private Sector Cyber Security Breach
- Data Breaches Multiply; Average Cost Now $2.7M
- Openness, quick action key to quelling data breach storms
- ICO slams private sector for being worst data breach offender
- Ind. AG: WellPoint to pay $100K over data breach
- Data security and data breach notification bills circulating in Congress
- A Flurry of Cyber Security Legislation in Washington
- Cyber-
protection tips for small businesses - Data Encryption On The Rise
- New York attorney general escalates Sony attack probe
- Companies Settle After Compromising Privacy of 65,000 Consumers
- HITECH Act's promise of data security not yet realized
- TRICARE Hit With $4.9 Billion Lawsuit
- EHR Data Breaches are Bound to Happen: Make EHR/EMR Privacy and Security a Top Priority when Implementing Your EHR/EMR System
- 10 Best Practices for Securing Protected Health Information
- Stanford Hospital sued $20M over data breach, faults billing contractor
- Interview: The New HIPAA Enforcer
- HIPAA Activity on the Rise
- Day of reckoning
- Stolen TRICARE health records did not meet federal encryption standards
- 6 best ways to protect against health data breaches
- Online information needs better protection
- Clinic says North Dakota Blues violate HIPAA law
- Will your business associates cause a health care data breach?
- HIPAA at 15: HITECH Tightens Health Care Data Privacy Laws
- OCR: More Than 30K Health Data Breaches Recorded Since 2009
- Hospitals embrace high-
tech security - How to Evaluate a HIPAA Security Compliant Data Center
- Opinion: Oversight of corporate compliance in health care more important than ever
- Texas raises stakes on health care privacy
- Veriphyr Survey Finds More Than 70 Percent of Healthcare Providers Suffered Privacy Breach in Past 12 Months
- Keep patients’ data safe to avoid fine
- HIPAA audits are coming: The time to prepare is now
- HITECH Act Changes Game For HIPAA Compliance VARs
- New data spill shows risk of online health records
- Are your contractors the real deal?
- OCR: Walgreens HIPAA Investigation Continues
- UCLA Health System Pays $865,000 Fine For Failure to Maintain Privacy of Medical Records
- Vigorous HIPAA privacy rule enforcement
- CHIME Weighs in on Proposed HIPAA Disclosure Rules
Spam &
- Report: Phishing Domain Registrations Way Down
- Apple phishing attack circulating
- Bank phishing attacks on the rise
- Cybercrime tool Whaling takes over Phishing
- TechMan: Phishing attackers play wicked Internet con game
- Fake Microsoft scammers lure users into granting remote access to PCs
- Better Business: Flurry of tax scams in area prompts IRS warning
- New Twitter Email Spam Phishing Attack
- INFOGRAPHIC: How Scams And Spam Affected Social Networking Users This Summer
- Watch out for Hurricane Irene Scams and Phishing Attacks on Facebook and Twitter
- Phone scammers target Wells Fargo customers
- Can you tell a real Facebook e-
mail from a phishing attempt? - iCloud phishing attack Warnings
- How Phishing is Like a Home Invasion
- TD warns Easyweb customers of a Phishing Attack
- Don't Be Fooled By IRS Phishing Scams
- Pictures of Osama Bin Laden phishing attack hits Twitter users
- Don't get spammed
- Forget Phishing — New Cybercrime Tool is Whaling
- Spammers' new favorite delivery model: Your compromised email account
- Analysis: Spammers exploit the Google cloud to dupe victims
- New Phishing Attack Spreads on Twitter
- Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 spam
- Crooks use Skype in new cyber swindle based on virus scam
- Phishing Scam Targets Credit Union Members
- Taxpayers warned of phishing scams
- When "Phish" Is Really Fishy
- How Responding to a Text Can Cost You
- iPhone 5 Phishing Attack Preys on WWDC Hype
- Spammers and Their Bankers
- BitDefender Cautions Online users Against Online Scams
- Bin Laden's death leads to surge in cybercrimes, Internet scams
- Malicious spam back on the increase reports M86 researcher
- Recent data breaches redefine failure, demand new approaches
- Phishing attacks spiked in late 2010
Business Data Breach
- Firms lose 12% of their brand value from data breaches, survey finds
- Data Breaches Costing Companies Millions in Brand Value
- SEC Data Breach Rules Ultimately Good for Business
- Hotels make guest data security a top priority
- SEC orders firms to come clean about data breaches
- Enterprise security spending up, but data protection overlooked
- Markel: Data Breaches Not Just Aimed at Large Companies Any More
- Data Breach -
What You Need to Know Now: California's Data Security Breach Notification Law - Avoiding a Breach: Advice for Managers from Security Experts
- How to Handle a Security Breach
- The 6 tips for avoiding data breaches
- How to protect your business in the event of a breach of personal information
- Mandatory data breach reporting proposed
- Most small businesses 'unprepared' for data breach
- Senate Committee Approves Data Breach Bills Despite Heavy Opposition
- Bots troll hacker forums to discover data breaches
- Plan ahead to tackle data breaches
- Federal data breach notification law could simplify process
- Data Breach Avoidance Requires Copy Cops?
- Data breach risks: Not just the insider threat
- Patient Data Posted Online in Major Breach of Privacy
- New Data Breach Study Shows Over 806.2 Million Records Disclosed, Estimated Cost of $156.7 Billion
- Top 4 tips for minimizing a data breach's financial impact
- California Amends Its Data Breach Law -
For Real, This Time! (As California Goes, So Goes the Nation? Part Three) - A Practical Approach to Mitigating Data Breach Risk in an Interconnected World
- Principle seven and breach of data in a Hampshire school
- A flurry of federal data security and data breach notification bills introduced into Congress
- Bottom of Form 1 Vulnerable to Data Breaches? Five Tips for Data Breach Security Testing
- 14 Enterprise Security Tips From Anonymous Hacker
- 90 Percent of Security Pros Take Note of High-
Profile Breaches, But Majority Do Nothing - Our data encryption is sorely lacking
- It's no good putting security systems in place after a breach
- Comment: EU Data Breach Notification Law is a Start, but Not Enough
- Few e-
retailers are prepared to notify consumers of a loss of card data - Half of data breaches happens in-
house, security firm warns - Data breaches: Steps businesses need to take to protect data
- KnowBe4 Cybercrime Case Study Reveals True Cost of Network Breach
- Restaurant Breach Raises Concerns
- How to Inform Customers of a Data Breach
- Study: Small Businesses Overly Complacent About Cybersecurity Threats
- Businesses Fight Online Criminals with Cyberinsurance
- First Person: Keeping My Small Business Safe From Cyberthreats
- Protecting Your Small Business From Cyber Crime
- As Information Thieves Target Smaller Firms, New Insurance Emerges
- Midsize firms easy pickings for thieves targeting data
- Cloud Cover: Are You Protected?
- Protecting Your Small Business From Hackers
- Small Business Next Cybercrime Target
- Exploring Cyber Security -
The Open Source Way! - Tech Talk: CompTIA working for IT, small business communities
- How Washington is Impacting Small Business and IT
- Invest in compliance programmes -
CCPC - Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms
- Lawsuits, Identity Theft Keep CEOs Up at Night
- Cybercriminals: A Look at Their World and Their Threat to Business
- The c-
words that curse data breaches - Canadian small businesses targeted by hackers
- Cyber Crime and Small Business
- Managing Risk: Stay Ahead of the Curve
- Company loses about $40,000 in cyber attack
- 7 Safety Tips as Hackers Hit Small Businesses
- ICO reports that private sector was responsible for a third of data breaches, yet most businesses refuse an audit
- Conducting A Business Audit to Detect Cybercrime Attacks
- 5 Things every Small Business should know about Web Threats and Cybercrime
History's biggest cybercrime ring dismantled
Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated
Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and
enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-
Oversharing on Facebook and Twitter will expose thousands to identity theft, experts warn
Identity theft will hit one in eight people in Wales in the next year as people “over-
New Twitter phishing attack poses as reputation alert
Cybercriminals are at work on micro-
Sony Freezes 93,000 Online Accounts After Security Breach
The company said last night that it had shut down approximately 93,000 accounts on
its online gaming and entertainment networks after detecting a mass, attempted sign-
111 Charged in Elaborate Identity-
A total of 111 people have been indicted in an identity-
Data Thieves Find Easy Pickings in Email Addresses
Recent breaches at Epsilon and Citibank are evidence that criminals are not just going after financial information anymore
Nationwide Effort to Increase Awareness of Online Safety and Security Includes New Focus Areas for Law Enforcement, Small Business, and Professional Development
Records of 4.9 mln stolen from car in Texas data breach
A massive data breach, in which the personal and medical records of millions of military patients and their families were compromised, happened when the records were stolen out of a data contractor's car in San Antonio
US: Cyber attacks on utilities, industries rise
U.S. utilities and other crucial industries face an increasing number of cyberbreak-
Microsoft botnet hunters strike again, take alleged botnet domain hoster to court
Fresh off the success of decapitating the Rustock botnet, Microsoft today announced
the takedown of another botnet known as Kelihos, which controlled 41,000 computers
worldwide and was capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-
Small business next cybercrime target, experts warn Congress
Representatives from the Secret Service, FBI and Department of Homeland Security testified before a House committee Wednesday that small businesses need to change the way they think about security.
Botnets on my PC are one thing. Exploding air bags and braking systems that fail when I'm driving are entirely another matter. The report, Caution: Malware Ahead, serves up a dizzying array of scenarios. "Having your car hacked could translate to dire risks to your personal safety," McClure warns.
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