Thanks to Healthcare Professionals Live for highlighting this article and the important questions it highlights.
…I was wondering about why there have yet to be a single one healthcare data breaches posted on the Health and Human Services(HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) website. Because there have been a number of substantial incidents reported in the press inasmuch as the notification requirement under the HITECH Act went into effect, it was unclear as to whether the covered entities were remiss in reporting or whether the hold up was at OCR… (continue reading)
askjoetv asked:
KPHO CBS5 performed an investigations into new credit cards containing RFID chips and show how a hacker could steal someone Identity and how the banks are yet concerned. Arizona is #1 in Identity thefts. … computer hacker rfid credit card identity theft
Laptop computers have been the source of more of the biggest data breaches of all time. 800,000 doctors were recently put at risk for identity theft when a laptop containing their personal data went wanting from the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
As the years pass, laptop prices come down and their computing power goes up, making them increasingly vulnerable.
According to yet another interesting Ponemon Institute study, more than half of IT and security professionals worldwide believe their companies’ laptops and other mobile devices pose warranty risks, and but half of them have CEOs who are strong advocates and supporters of data security efforts. Kelly Jackson Higgins’ article at Dark Reading gives a good summary of these findings.
In the United States specifically, the situation is even worse, with only 40% of IT and security pros believing their CEOs to be security supporters. When it comes to compliance with regulations, “US firms were also less inclined to mind compliance helpful to security of their endpoints.”
This report is both quite troubling and yet unsurprising. It mode
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LifeLock’s new Command Center service provides one additional level of ID theft protection that’s very good news for their nearly 1.5 million current members and for new LifeLock members.
For current members, LifeLock Command Center is an optional add-on to the already extensive steps LifeLock has been providing. New enrollees can choose between LifeLock’s existing, industry leading suite of service and LifeLock’session Command.
LifeLock Command Center includes:
LifeLock Identity SDS (Search Detect, Secure)
Monitors usage of your Social Security number to be sure no one uses your identity to obtain cash advances or payday loans.
Provides report of sex offenders in your areas, and confirms none of them uses your personal information to circumvent sex offender registry laws—a shockingly common occurrence.
Monitors non-financial activities such as apartment rentals to make sure no one uses your identity.
Public records are searched so you can subsist assured no one but you uses your personal information to obtain a driver’s license, passport or other documents. Also confir
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As nationally recognized experts in this crime, we have come up with the Top 10 predictions for what the community might expect in the superficies of identity theft in 2010 and beyond.
1. More Scams: The recession will lead to more scams. “Whenever our nation has faced a difficult time, thieves have found a way to use the problem to their advantage,” explained Robert Siliciano. “In my adult life, I’ve never seen more variations of old scams and the degree of sophistication in newer scams”
2. Job Scams: Criminals will take advantage of increasing unemployment rates by tricking desperate people searching for job listings. These fake job listings and work-at-home scams will eventually end with the job seeker providing Social Security Numbers (SSNs) to criminals. “If the job description is not one that you would see printed on a business card or you are asked to front money, it’s a scam,” continued Siciliano.
3. Newbie Low Tech “Desperate” Identity Theft: Additionally, there will be an increase in the number of individuals – who have no criminal history – begin to explore the crime of identity theft for financial gain. “For these thieves, it
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is it identity theft when someone takes your i.d. (without your permission), to return something to a store.(then gives you your i.d. back)
is it illegal, can you press charges, and what is the penalty for it?
in the state of New York, USA