Survey Finds That Consumers Who Receive a Data Breach Notification are 4 Times More Likely To Suffer Identity Theft
A Javelin Strategies report published this week shows that if a consumer gets a data breach notification letter, they are four times more likely to suffer identity theft within the next year.
If I have suspicious that I am a victim of Identity Theft, what can I do?
I have recently done a background check on myself and have found an unknown name and address associated with my social security number.
What does this mean and what should I do? I assume it means that someone tried to use my social security number and their address to receive credit cards. But where [...]
USB Driver Bugs Could Be An Attack Vector
MWR Labs has published some information about research that they’ve been doing into USB driver vulnerabilities on various operating systems. For example, they have been using USB enumeration commands, which occur whenever you plug a device into a computer’s USB port, to try and cause buffer overflows on the host computer. So far it looks [...]
Job Seeker’s Information Stolen in Guardian Jobs Website Hack
The jobs.guardian.co.uk online jobs website has about 10 million users, including their US jobs site. Over the weekend they notified about half a million job seekers in the United Kingdom that hackers had compromised their databases and stolen a copy of their personal information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and job history.
The attack on [...]
LifeLock reviews: My firsthand account
So far, so good. I’m six months into my new LifeLock membership, and so far everything has gone just like they said it would.
I received my notice that I would no longer receive pre-approved credit offers within a few days. Hallelujah! ID thieves steal mail as one of the most common methods of ID theft, [...]