Zero Fraud Liability

Posted on Wednesday, 23rd February 2011 by Nate Sawers

Around 13,000 current and former students of Chapman University and its affiliate, Brandman University had their personal information exposed last week.  The university said an electronic document containing sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, student identification numbers and financial aid information was discovered by a Chapman student on February 15^th.

Chapman University discovered that the document had accidentally been placed in a nonsecure location.

Shari Waters, Chapman’s chief information officer, said in a statement released Tuesday that the university has found “no evidence that any personal data was appropriated or misused” and that the slip-up appeared to be an “isolated incident.”

Chapman University has contacted all of the students listed in the document and is offering identity protection service to the students

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Posted on Wednesday, 23rd February 2011 by Archie Norton

Whether you’re a road warrior or simply own multiple PCs and want access to all your data from anywhere, here are a few easy ways to do it, and one not so easy option.

All of these options are secure, as long as you don’t leave a remote PC logged into your account, or log in from a PC that is already infected with spyware or a virus. I only log in from trusted PCs like my own laptop.

LogMeIn gives you remote access to your PC or Mac from any other computer with an Internet connection, for free. Just install LogMeIn on the computer you want to access, and then log into your account from any other computer. You’ll be able to see your desktop and use all your applications, as if you were sitting right in front of your home computer, even if you’re across town, across the country, or across the world. LogMeIn

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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd February 2011 by Archie Norton

The Department of Defense proclaims, “The national security depends on our defense installations and facilities being in the right place, at the right time, with the right qualities and capacities to protect our national resources.” But by relying on Social Security numbers as primary identifiers, this same organization puts the identities of soldiers and their families at risk.

Last month, four West Point professors released a journal article arguing, “Despite the Defense Department’s recent advances in protecting personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, the military continues to have a ‘cultural disregard’ for PII.” The professors also pointed out that since the first digits of a Social Security number can be deduced based on birth year and location, restricting use to the last four digits does not adequately preclude identity theft.

In 2007, an Office of Management and Budget memo ordered agencies to eliminate all nonessential uses of Social Security numbers, and the Department of Defense is currently working on limiting its use of the numbers.

If you are a soldier or have a family member away on leave, there are two ways to protect yourself or your family member:

1. Place an “act

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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd February 2011 by Admin

Now it is time that people should aware of all classes of debt relief such as debt management, debt consolidation, credit card consolidation etc. You can see everywhere the appearance of debt management companies. These companies help you pay your debts by one monthly payoff to you and then distribute the money among your creditors. You can see it as a loan to consolidate the debt. Reports indicate that most of the time people get confused paying multiple debts to different creditors. So, because the Americans are in debt, this area of debt management business is one of the fastest developing today.

If you do not know about any of these terms then you should gather information on them and then do work on the debt. There are many programs for debt relief tailored specifically for people who can not pay their minimum monthly bills. Read more…

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Posted on Monday, 21st February 2011 by Nathan Thorpe

We all know that things aren’t always what they seem. On the surface the world of Disney seems like the idyllic place where dreams actually come true, especially if you wish upon a star (makes no difference who you are). Though the unfortunate reality of the Disney empire is that it is a money-making business that charges exorbitant amounts of money for people to enter their theme parks. And well, we have all heard the stories from friends (or friends of friends) who worked for Disney. Let’s just put it this way — not all dreams come true in the Disney empire.

Now that we have gotten our Disney-bias out of the way. Let’s discuss something happening with Disney and identity theft. The Walt Disney Co. was sued in federal court in Santa Ana today in a class action lawsuit that alleges the company-issued employee badges that left workers vulnerable to identity theft. The emp

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Posted on Thursday, 17th February 2011 by Archie Norton

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were at least 662 data breaches in 2010, which exposed more than 16 million records. Nearly two-thirds of breaches exposed Social Security numbers, and 26% involved credit or debit card data.

The ITRC elaborated, “Other than breaches reported by the media and a few progressive state websites, there is little or no information available on many data breach events that occur. It is clear that without a mandatory national reporting requirement, many data breaches will continue to be unreported, or under-reported.”

The majority of these attacks were malicious hacks or insider theft, rather than the result of employee errors. InformationWeek reports, “Some states, but not all, have data breach notification laws, which require any organization that suffers a breach to notify that state’s affected residents. Interes

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