Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category
Friday, March 12th, 2010
by Doug Pollack
Federal agencies and regulators announced this week that LifeLock will pay $12 million to settle a complaint that it used false and misleading claims in its advertising. $11 million of the settlement will be paid to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and $1 million to ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
by Doug Pollack
It was reported today in Finextra that US judge Andrew Guilford has concluded that "Lifelock....has been employing unfair business practices by placing fraud alerts on customer credit files it maintains."
Data breach incidents have been on the rise this year. Typically a credit monitoring offering is provided to the ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
By Rebecca Seaman
Remember the classic “Nigerian 419” scam; where a rich Prince or Bank Executive from a foreign country just needed your banking information to facilitate a transfer of funds? In exchange for your help, you would receive a percentage of those funds; Gratis. And just like that, you could ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
by Doug Pollack
The Attrition.org site has now re-emerged as DataLossDB. Their mission is described as follows on their site:
"DataLossDB, formerly the Attrition.org, Data Loss Database Open Source, is an research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide. ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
By Rebecca Seaman
By now, most savvy consumers are aware of Phishing Scams: emails supposedly sent from one of the entities we do business with asking us to verify our personal information by clicking on a link in the body of the email. We know that if our creditors or banking ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
By Rebecca Seaman
A modified bill that would allow victims of ID Theft to recoup costs in federal court and which would impose harsher restrictions on cyberattacks passed in the Senate this week. The bill, known as the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, still needs to be approved by the ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
BEAVERTON, Ore., May 13 -- ID Experts(TM), the leader in data breach protection services, announced today its new blog DataBreachWatch.org that will feature data breach alerts, breach news and online resources for security and privacy professionals.
"DataBreachWatch.org is a great way for us to consolidate data breach events and information as ...
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