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LifeLock and Identity Theft

2008-06-17 06:51:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
LifeLock, one of the companies that offers 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...
 
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
Several weeks on and I'm still digesting the massive amount of information and insight from the second European identity conference in Munich, organized by Kuppinger Cole. Five days chock-full of content (7 am to 7 pm every day!), 50 exhibitors, 130 speakers, four workshop tracks, five theme tracks, and 25 best-practice sessions. Hundreds of...
 
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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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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2008-04-04 12:40:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/28/08 Organization Illinois Eye Center Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth Breach Description A former Illinois Eye Center employee could have used confidential patient information for...
 
Tags: eye center, center, illinois eye center, illinois, identity theft, confidential information, information, confidential patient information, occasional
 
 
 
 
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Portable Identity and the BBC

2008-04-29 14:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
We've spoken about OpenID before on this blog (see entries from 9 Feb 2008 and 7 Feb 2007 ) and I've been quite enthusiastic about the prospects for this "open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity." It seems that the BBC have seen the potential and joined the OpenID foundation. Jem Stone , on his blog, makes the bold...
 
Tags: portable identity, identity, user-centric digital identity, bbc, mobile phone, future plans, future, openid, openid foundation
 
 
 
 
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Use Cases for Identity Management in E-Government

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
E-government provides a special and complex use case for identity management systems, first because the needs of some parts of the government (such as law enforcement and national security) are often at odds with the service-oriented aspects of government, and second because of the unique role government plays in the life of the citizen. The...
 
Tags: e-government, government, identity management systems, zealand implementation differs, zealand, history strongly affect, identity management system, law enforcement, authors discuss
 
 
 
 
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CBAC & Medical Identity Theft

2008-07-10 10:09:41 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Good story to keep in mind for those of you working on CBAC. Claims neeed protection and verification. Why steal an identity when you can capture a claim? (hattip: askelizabeth The Sopranokovs The Russian mob comes to town with a new scammedical identity theft When FBI special agent Ted Price peered through the window of a dingy brick storefront...
 
Tags: dme suppliers simply, dme suppliers, dme fraud, fraud, dme, identity, medical identity theft, dme dealers, dme supplier
 
 
 
 
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Identity Framework Probable Feature List

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2007-12-16 06:42:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
Vittorio has just concluded a series of posts where he's sharing a sneak preview of the Identity Framework (Fx for this post). Based on what he's shown and his descriptions, I've put together a little list of some features we can probably expect from the Fx. This is all pre-alpha stuff and the API will probably change, but the core features...
 
Tags: informationcard login control, login control, information card serializer, information, control, user authentication methods, user, custom sts, card
 
 
 
 
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Former Verizon Wireless employee charged with identity theft

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2008-04-27 09:43:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 4/22/08 Organization Verizon Wireless Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, address, Social Security number, and/or Verizon Wireless account number Breach Description A former employee of Verizon Wireless who worked in a telesales...
 
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