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LifeLock and Identity Theft

2008-06-17 06:51:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...identity-theft protection in the United States, has been taking quite a beating recently. They're being sued by credit bureaus, competitors and lawyers in several states that are launching class action lawsuits. And the stories in the media ... it's like a piranha feeding frenzy There are also a lot of errors and misconceptions. With its...
 
Tags: identity theft, credit reports, credit, identity, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau
 
 
 
 
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EIC 2008: Takeaways from Europe's biggest identity event

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2008-06-13 08:19:15 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
...identity-driven security, federation, single sign-on (SSO), provisioning, context-based authentication, mobile and user-centric identity, SOA, entitlement management, and information risk management all commanded their own tracks. But some unifying themes emerged, chief among them that well-planned and -implemented identity and access...
 
Tags: identity, information, information risk management, user-centric identity, iam, iam implementation, effective information security, implement iam, holistic iam context
 
 
 
 
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Ping Identity acquires Sxip Identity

2008-03-11 12:31:57 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
Ping Identity announced that it acquired Sxip Identity for an undisclosed sum. The rationale of the acquisition is to allow Ping Identity's products to meet enterprise-wide, typically SSO challenges. This is important to be able to further extend Ping's market share with software-as-a-service providers. Is it a breakthrough? Hardly. Questions...
 
Tags: identity, sxip identity, identity management, iam, iam arena, vendors, role vendors, forge strategic partnerships, iam suite
 
 
 
 
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Certificates - secure a. identity b. encryption c. both d. neither

2008-07-09 07:55:45 by HASH0x8b4ef88 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
With the release of Firefox 3.0 there has been a bit of controversy over how it handles self-signed certificates. It seems that Firefox makes it difficult to use self-signed certificates and some people are complaining about it. Here at StillSecure we use self-signed certs in our products and we had to change how we do things to make it work....
 
Tags: identity, prove identity, identity confirmation, encryption, identity certs, certs, firefox, encryption function, step backward
 
 
 
 
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Certificates - secure a. identity b. encryption c. both d. neither

2008-07-09 08:44:01 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
With the release of Firefox 3.0 there has been a bit of controversy over how it handles self-signed certificates. It seems that Firefox makes it difficult to use self-signed certificates and some people are complaining about it. Here at StillSecure we use self-signed certs in our products and we had to change how we do things to make it work....
 
Tags: identity, prove identity, identity confirmation, encryption, identity certs, certs, firefox, encryption function, step backward
 
 
 
 
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The Venn of Identity: Options and Issues in Federated Identity Management

2008-05-22 06:22:46 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Digital identities can be associated with everything from people to software applications to entire companies, but human digital identities prove the most interesting and challenging. Human digital identities can simplify network usage and enable new classes of applications, but they also introduce security and privacy risks. Federated identity...
 
Tags: identity, identity management, identity tasks, human digital identities, digital identities, privacy risks, distribute identity information, software applications, applications
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity

2008-09-04 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
Let me start off by saying that I'm making this whole thing up Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago, someone could have just shown up in the country and gotten a...
 
Tags: security, identity, data, data shadow, data shadows, shadows, social security card, financial identity, photo ids glue
 
 
 
 
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Identity Farming

2008-09-09 05:42:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Let me start off by saying that I'm making this whole thing up Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago, someone could have just shown up in the country and gotten a...
 
Tags: identity, data, data shadow, data shadows, shadows, financial identity, photo ids glue, photo ids, identity databases
 
 
 
 
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OpenID family grows How it can transform Identity Federation between enteprises

2008-02-07 14:06:33 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
With Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! joining the OpenID Foundation, we may actually feel that something in federated access management is going to change. It is finally not the case of a vendor proposing a new standard and adding to the cacophony of federation standards but a set of moves towards a simple technology that today can...
 
Tags: openid, openid foundation, openid camp, accept openid authentication, integration, strong authentication integration, identity federations proliferation, simple technology, technology
 
 
 
 
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Illinois Eye Center warns patients of identity theft

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