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The ITRC is now on Facebook and Twitter
Posted on January 30th, 2011 No commentsNow you can friend the ITRC on facebook and follow us on Twitter! Our new Social Networking sites will keep you up to date on what is happening in the world of Identity Theft. You will also find helpful information on how to protect yourself from becoming a victim. Our advisors will also be present on Twitter and Facebook to answer any questions you have
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Senate panel approves data security bills
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsPlans would tighten data security procedures and beef up notification of breaches.
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Social networking sites a treasure trove for identity thieves
Posted on November 5th, 2009 No commentsWith Twitter, Brightkite and Flickr, a criminal can learn people’s activities and movements and create detailed accounts about their work or personal lives.
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Why Twitter Links Should Scare You
Posted on October 29th, 2009 No comments26% of Twitter messages contain links, half of which are made by spammers that lead to malicious websites. read more
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Gmail,Yahoo hit by phishing scheme
Posted on October 7th, 2009 No commentsUsers of Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail were also targeted in the large-scale phishing attack that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft’s Live Hotmail, according to reports Tuesday. Neither of the companies’ US representatives responded to requests for information. But in Europe, where most of the Hotmail phishing victims appea…
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Your CIO Doesn’t Want You Tweeting on Company Time
Posted on October 7th, 2009 No commentsMore than half of the 1,400 CIOs surveyed block sites such as Facebook and Twitter completely from employee access, according to Robert Half Technology.
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Twitter Hack Opens Pandora’s Box of Security Issues
Posted on July 16th, 2009 No commentsA hack into Twitter’s back-end productivity applications earlier this month is raising some serious questions — not only about password system security itself, but also about some consequences of network intrusion that may have been unforeseen. About a month ago, a hacker was able to access a Twitter employee’s personal email account — and once there, the intruder struck the mother lode.
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Twitter falls under a gorilla attack
Posted on July 7th, 2009 No commentsBy Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld — There were two big news stories about Twitter over the weekend, and I’m not sure which was more disturbing…
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Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 3.0.11
Posted on June 12th, 2009 No comments(added June 12, 2009) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom
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How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy Rules
Posted on June 12th, 2009 No commentsHow Facebook and Twitter Are CIOs think about privacy the way some people think about exercise: with a sigh and a sense of impending pain. Outside of regulated industries like health care–where patient privacy is paramount–privacy affects CIOs as a corollary of security when, say, a laptop holding millions of people’s records is lost or hackers siphon off customer data.
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