It’s news when an identity thief is caught (only 1 thief in 700 reported cases is caught and prosecuted), but when the victim catches her own thief, that commands a headline! In a byline article in the Seattle Times yesterday, Ian Ith reports the story of Michelle McCambridge, a 23-year-old retail clerk and college student [...]
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Cybergangs Mimic Mafia
Published by July 16th, 2008 in CyberCrime, Identity Theft and Internet Security. 0 CommentsWeb security company Finjan released a report today in which it shows how cybercrime has evolved into a “well-structured business model.” It even calls cybergangs “companies,” and makes convincing comparisons with La Cosa Nostra. Emil Protalinski at Ars Technica published a fascinating article today on the Finjan study titled Report: cybercrime groups starting to operate [...]
Good question. There’s really nothing wrong with credit monitoring. In fact, you should monitor activity on your credit records. You can do that fairly easily for free. Or you can pay one of those companies that tell you that you can prevent having your identity stolen by putting yourself in their hands. That cute guy [...]
Why you can’t prevent identity theft
Published by July 1st, 2008 in Data Theft and Identity Theft. 0 CommentsYou can’t prevent identity theft because there are simply too many ways for thieves to get your personal information. The easiest way is to just buy a file of names with social security numbers on the Internet. You can buy a million names for about a hundred bucks. Some files include dates of birth, home [...]