Posts Tagged ‘credit card’
IN THE HEADLINES: Data Breaches Off to a Great Start
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 27, 2012
The New Year is barely a couple of weeks old and already we’re seeing some brazen and possibly huge data breaches. Fans of the Huffington Post were greeted a couple of days ago with a Twitter message from the Post that said simply “Sorry about that, Twitterverse! We know we’ve been hacked and are working [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Credit card providers get mixed marks for security
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 13, 2011
Research firm Javelin recently released its 7th Annual Card Issuer’s Identity Safety Scorecard, an annual report that takes a detailed look at all the precautions and steps the nation’s top credit card issuers take to protect their customers from identity theft and fraud. And the results were definitely mixed. Javelin’s methodology uses a points system [...]
Have You Been “SCARED” into Compromising Yourself?
Posted by: Jerry Thompson in: ● July 11, 2011
SCAREWARE. Does that word sound familiar? It is yet another variant of cyber threats that get consumers to do something on the Internet that compromises their PC and, more importantly, their identities, bank accounts, brokerage accounts, credit cards and likely all of their online accounts. Here is how it works: You see an email or [...]
Digital Footprints of a College Graduate — Part II: Your Credit Profile
Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● March 21, 2011
In Part One of Footprints of a College Graduate, we advised college graduates to take an objective look at their Social Media profiles with a particular focus on their updates, photographs, and commentaries. Now we turn the focus to credit profiles and the relevance they play in job searches, new purchases, and house rentals or [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Clever Skimming Hits Airports
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 25, 2011
Opportunity is everywhere, and sadly this means a few might attempt to exploit it, no matter how it may shatter trust between a consumer and a business. I read today about how a ticket counter employee for American Airlines at the San Jose airport had created a lucrative part-time business stealing credit card information from [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #016 — Reflections (and Cautions) Concerning the 2011 Javelin Identity Fraud Survey
Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● February 11, 2011
This week, Javelin Strategy & Research released their 2011 Identity Fraud Survey. Since 2003, Javelin Strategy & Research has conducted this survey in order to provide a detailed, comprehensive analysis of identity fraud so that consumers and businesses better understand methods for prevention, detection and resolution. The survey is comprised of a nationally representative sample [...]
Episode #016: Reflections (and Cautions) Concerning the 2011 Javelin Identity Fraud Survey [ 5:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIN THE HEADLINES: Criminal Mastermind Runs Identity Theft Ring…from Prison
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 2, 2011
I guess old habits die hard. An inmate serving time at the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio just plead guilty to operating a massive identity theft scheme while still in prison. It’s not clear what he was in prison for at the time, but it is very clear that he won’t be getting [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Skimming Cases Spread Across the Country
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 28, 2011
Last week I wrote about how the sleepy California town of Sierra Madre had fallen victim to a skimming attack that netted more than 400 victims at just one local gas station. And almost every day since then I’ve seen more stories emerge about skimming attacks across the country. Just this week, authorities at the [...]
Spending with the Stars: The Hidden Costs of Pop Culture
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 6, 2010
Last week, news outlets released some amazing statistics concerning this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The Huffington Post reported that sales in physical retail shops during the Black Friday weekend were up by 12.1 percent from 2009. For Cyber Monday, Bloomberg reported Internet retailers cracking the $1 billion ceiling, the first time in Cyber [...]
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