| Russian hackers attack the white house | | | Michae haven | 4/27/2015 | | On April 8, 2015 CNN did a report on a security breach involving the white house and the state department. This attack was done allegedly by Russian hackers in an attempt to gain states secrets. The hackers had gained access to the state departments computers via a phishing email attack. The attack was found out by suspicious activity that was happening on the white house computers. This attack allowed
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http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/introductions.htm https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/02/identity-theft-tops-ftcs-consumer-complaint-categories-again-2014 http://blog.fraudfighter.com/bid/94512/Aug-14-2013-Identity-Theft-The-Fastest-Growing-Crime-in-America How can I prevent identity theft? Some of the things you can do and not a victim yet is to monitor your credit and keeping your information safe. We talked about not only making sure your information is safe when
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Today’s Age Problem Statement Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is sensitive data of a person’s identity. If mishandled, this information can result in identity theft. There have been millions of consumers who have had their identity compromised from misuse or lost PII. To adequately protect PII, one must understand what it is. PII is information that can distinguish or trace a person identity. A few examples such as, a person’s Social Security number, age, home and office phone numbers are
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considered threat to information, which can exploit system’s vulnerability and open the door for hackers. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FACULTY INB255 Security Semester 1 2014 Security News Log News 2 Title: 8 charged in AT&T ID theft fraud case, including outsourced
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connivance or by his agents with the intention to deceive another party or his agent or to induce him to enter in to a contract. Banking Frauds constitute a considerable percentage of white-collar offences being probed by the police. Unlike ordinary thefts and robberies, the amount misappropriated in these crimes runs into lakhs and crores of rupees. Bank fraud is a federal crime in many countries, defined as planning to obtain property or money from any federally insured financial institution. It
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and username this is why people keep telling you to have strong passwords that don’t relate to you directly. There are many different ways that a user can have security problems on their computers these are things like… • Hacking • Viruses • Identity theft Hacking
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Lonnie Virgil Week Seven Case Study Data security is a critical factor that all individuals and organizations should be concern about. When taking into consideration sensitive data that businesses and individuals hold from financial information to personal information such as social security numbers, any breach in security could be damaging. Data security are methods used to protect data and sensitive information from unauthorized users by preventing unauthorized access to computers, databases
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Further investigation showed that there was not adequate virus protection on these PCs. The key-logging virus originated from a phishing email impersonating VL Bank and asking the customer to load the latest security software to protect from identity theft. The customers reported the fund transfer immediately (within 48 hours) and they are protected under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA). This states that as long as the fraudulent wire transfer is reporting in a timely manner that the
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1. A successful data and security breach notification law was Florida passed senate bill 1524 in 2014. 2. An entity is not required to notify individuals if it "reasonably determines that the breach has not and will not likely result in identity theft or any other financial harm to the individuals whose personal information has been accessed." If an entity determines that notification to individuals is required, such notification should include the date of the breach, a description of the information
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distinguishing individual identity. Big corporations find PII important identifying their employees. For example most companies have employee ID which is unique from one employee to another. Government officials need to use PII to search and identify and distinguish individuals in their large data base. For example, all legal US residences have a social security number that identifies an individual. In forensic, PII is important to help track down and identify criminals. This identity can be obtained through
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