[jonasdatum]

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/st...deo_index.html

I am using this link on another thread, but the security portion of this link is worth mentioning. Wipe your drives completely. Erasing come in abundance free or purchased. For you new people search this and other threads since we talk about this in abundance.

[jonasdatum]

Yea, I have fairly tight security on my social-networking accounts. I encrypt up the wa-zoo and no 2 passwords are the same. Although I think it is time I update my passwords on some of my accounts. Not that I think they have been compromised, but just because.

Many online off-site data storage sites offer encryption and that is great, but I still encrypt everything on there serves and it is good idea if you do the same.

I look at it like a security system for a house. The idea is to make it to difficult and make them decided to attack the weaker prey.

[lotuseclat79]

In case the following hasn't yet been posted in this thread, if you are a victim of id theft or online crime you can make a complaint to

the Internet Crime Complaint Center , a collaboration between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). The point of IC3, as it's called, is to provide a place for victims of online theft to make complaints, a centralized system for the government to take them, and a means to learn what the bad guys are up to this week.

IC3 received almost 280,000 complaints last year and did something about over 70,000 of them. In many instances it referred them to state and local law enforcement agencies. IC3 also issues regular advisories on the latest mischief. These include alerts on the latest social networking fraud techniques, tips for SQL programmers on protecting their sites from hackers, and even warnings about e-mails pretending to be FBI warnings about Al Qaeda.

Ref: An introduction to the FBI's anti-cyber crime network.

The FBI explained how its anti-cyber crime task force works at a Congressional hearing this week, and outlined the Bureau's latest accomplishments, which include catching the masterminds of a coordinated raid on over 1,000 ATM machines. But nobody thinks the United States is prepared to stop a really bad attack through cyberspace on our financial or physical networks.

-- Tom

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by jonasdatum

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/st...deo_index.html

I am using this link on another thread, but the security portion of this link is worth mentioning. Wipe your drives completely. Erasing come in abundance free or purchased. For you new people search this and other threads since we talk about this in abundance.

Any new interesting stories about identity theft or related issues? It's been dry!

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by jonasdatum

Any new interesting stories about identity theft or related issues? It's been dry!

I often wonder how many people are even made aware or made aware on a timely basis that their identities are at risk from a security at a bank, credit card company or retail company's data base being compromised.
While I've had no issues, it was on the order of 6 month's after Mellon Bank experienced a theft of a portion of their backup data that they announced to their account holders there was a problem.....last I heard that involved a minimum of 14 million accounts.

[jonasdatum]

Originally Posted by Stoner

I often wonder how many people are even made aware or made aware on a timely basis that their identities are at risk from a security at a bank, credit card company or retail company's data base being compromised.
While I've had no issues, it was on the order of 6 month's after Mellon Bank experienced a theft of a portion of their backup data that they announced to their account holders there was a problem.....last I heard that involved a minimum of 14 million accounts.

I am well aware of the risk. Our world runs on technology, that is the state of our evolution. You can do but so much. The companies sell our data to one extent or another all the time. I often wounder how often somebody tries to hack my backed up data on a server somewhere on those online backup sites. I am seriously considering using them. One person on a youtube.com video asked the important questions:

1) Do you value the data you collected enough? If so how much is it in terms of dollars?

2) How many redundant backups do you have?

3) How can the medium the data is on be compromised?

4) Off site backup is good, but most do have that day-to-day?

I am thinking of going biometric soon with some of my data, but my current encryption applications don't support it. I haven't worked on encryption keys much with PGP. I've spent more time with it though. I like the idea for keys because what if I get hit on the head and get amnesia? All that data is backed-up, but I'd spend the rest of my life accessing it. Unless I know somebody at the pentagon who owes me a favor.

All these codes. I know them more than I know my plate number or my ATM code.

Anybody know of any cool new encryption software?

Make sure to wipe your storage medium(s) often. Especially if you sell, give away, discard them. If you must carry your data, no matter how you carry it, encrypt your information. If you use a code make sure the code is at least 7 characters long. The longer, the more complicated, the more unique to you, the better!

[Couriant]

Speaking of:

ECMC's 3.3mil of student loan data taken

They have caught the person and appears to have not been compromised.

[jonasdatum]

There was a news report on TV that overheard while waking up early this morning; I'll post the link to later. It spoke of how China hacked many companies and military databases. Using the data procured to make exact copies of installations.


ASHBURN, VA, April 22, 2010
Cyber Attacks Jeopardize Superpower Status
Where America Stands: Increasingly Computer-Based Nation Faces off Daily Against Hackers, with No International Rule of Law
By Terry McCarthy
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6422768.shtml

All you need to crack encryption is 'time'. My only question is on a day-to-day basis my data is on a few servers. At 128k to 256k, most of my data encrypted being the ladder, how secure is it? I use fairly complex and extensive codes. As you already I know I am considering going to biometric and key coding. Yea 128k, lol not the standard for most data of any real value to be stored. I am limited to what I have available to me . I am making 256k my new basic as soon as I get the software.

PS: I am planning on re-opening my encryption thread.

[jonasdatum]

Beware of RFID Chips on Credit / Debit Cards.



I have actually asked the credit card companies to give me a card like this and they said that it is not available. They only have it as a separate tag-device. I'll have to find some sort of radio jamming wallet when they become mandatory. I am sure they are on the market in countries where this technology is widely used.

[jonasdatum]

If the woman accused it did it, crush her! What she did was wrong and deserves to be crushed.

[jonasdatum]

How many layers of security do you have on your computer?

[jonasdatum]

30 news & feature articles results for "RFID wallets"
http://www.cnet.com/1770-5_1-0.html?...llets&tag=srch


High tech pickpockets, and how to protect yourself
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...mer&id=7461924

- Article I found while online and doing some searching.

RFID is a danger depending what data is on the chip. Might want to upgrade your wallet depending your dare I say it ... "threat assessment."

I don't have anything with RFID technology yet. So a good old wallet is good for me. LOL, I need a new wallet regardless.

[hewee]

They will track you to you die and it's getting worse.

[lotuseclat79]

New ID theft targets kids' SS numbers.

The latest form of identity theft doesn't depend on stealing your Social Security number. Now thieves are targeting your kid's number long before the little one even has a bank account.


Graphic outlines a new kind of credit fraud scheme involving credit privacy numbers

-- Tom

[lotuseclat79]

Identity Theft Council: A resource for identity-theft victims.

-- Tom