Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

Welcome to the Data Breach Watch Blog

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Welcome to Data Breach Watch - your resource for data breach alerts, breach-related news and articles, and helpful resources. This blog was created to provide security and privacy officers, their teams, and other interested constituents, with up-to-date information, commentary and resources on data breaches. Despite advances in data security, ...

DataLossDB Site Beta

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. ...

Phishers Upgrade to Vishing: Phone Scams Target Your Identity

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 ...

Senate Passes Stricter Identity Theft Legislation

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 ...

DataBreachWatch.org to encompass data breach alerts, breach news and online resources

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 ...