I’ve spoken often about the number of data breaches reported to the media – in fact it works out to an average of more than one data breach every single day for the last five years. And those are only the reported ones. When you take into account all the data breaches that are discovered [...]
It is not quite the end of January and I have already received more than five phishing emails from the IRS and my bank concerning last year’s tax returns and this year’s payments or refunds, whichever is applicable. The emails are variants of the same scam. Essentially what they are asking me to do is [...]
Security experts recently uncovered a new and very sinister twist on identity theft – businesses actively selling the Social Security numbers of children to buyers with less-than-stellar credit, who dump the stolen identities as soon as they’re no longer of use, then purchase more. Sounds crazy, but it does seem to be increasing in popularly, [...]
You’d think by now that companies of all sizes, but especially large publicly traded companies, would have gotten the security and privacy message loud and clear. We’re now more than a decade into the worst of the epidemic of cybercrime, identity theft, and privacy violations, and yet in spite of all the warnings, media coverage [...]
The more desperate job hunters become, the more risks they may be prepared to take. That often means providing potential employers or recruiters with a wealth of personal information, including name, home address, date and place of birth, entire work history and even Social Security numbers. If you’re hunting for a job, providing this kind [...]
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Neal O’Farrell, a nationally recognized [...]
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