Indian call centre security breaches exposed

Yikes, another reason to be concerned about offshore call centers. While the article below covers call centers supporting UK customers who are clearly exposed to possible identity theft, the same thing could happen any one of us in the United States!

Indian call centre security breaches exposed
Offshore industry hits back at undercover TV sting
By Andy McCue

Published: Thursday 5 October 2006

An undercover TV investigation claims to have infiltrated criminal gangs selling thousands of UK credit card and passport details for as little as £5 each from the country's offshore call centres.
The Channel 4 Dispatches documentary follows a 12-month investigation that resulted in footage of middlemen offering the undercover reporter credit card details of 100,000 customers of UK high-street banks from Indian call centres.

But India IT trade body Nasscom has hit out at Channel 4 after the TV company refused to show the organisation any of the footage before the broadcast on Thursday evening and urged the programme makers to co-operate in rooting out and prosecuting any "corrupt" call centre workers.

Full article: http://services.silicon.com/offshoring/0,3800004877,39163025,00.htm

Identity Theft Tips for Prevention and Victims

A few quick and easy things to keep in mind in order to prevent identity theft and tips if you have been victimized. Alot of this is common sense, what makes it important is that you remember to go through these steps one by one.

Source: http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=ID+theft%3A+Protect+yourself&articleId=ac05db1f-f9f9-40f6-bde9-8d6ccaddf847

Macomb Daily: Thief steals judge's identity

The world of identity theft never seizes to amaze me. Below is a local news article on a judge who was had her identity stolen twice! You'd think the judge would have sense and sign up for some idneity theft protection service such as PrivacyMatters!

Full article: http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/090306/loc_idtheft001.shtml

10 tips to protect against identity theft

What's missing from this particular tip sheet is making sure when you provide websites with your name and other information that the site is using a secure way to send your information. Look for the padded lock icon at the bottom right corner of your browswer window.

Source: http://www2.townonline.com/arlington/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=557291

Protect your credit if you suspect identity theft

A fairly good article on identity theft with regards to credit and how to protect it as well.

Full article: http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/other/08/11greig.html

Breaches Put Residents At Risk for Identity Fraud

An interesting article on breaches from the Monterey County Herald regarding breaches and how it puts residents at risk.

Full article: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/15133805.htm

Even Celebrities Aren't Immune To Identity Theft

That's right, even the high profile celebrities are vulnerable to identity theft. Sportsline briefly goes into how to be proactive about identity theft.

Full article: http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/9569166

Avoiding Identity Theft: Part One

Good article from a local website on how to prevent identity theft and how security breaches and theft of corporate information can affect you.

Avoiding Identity Theft: Part One
Westport News
Identity theft is rampant these days. It's in the news all the time. Databases are being penetrated on a regular basis. And, even if you don't fall prey to full-blown identity theft, your credit or debit card number might end up being used for a few hundred dollars worth of merchandise on some Web site in Asia. It happens all the time.

While some crime still goes down the old-fashioned way, somebody gets your credit card number during a everyday transaction, much of it is the result of the Internet. Welcome to the future. Science fiction writers predicted many things but cybercrime was foreseen by very few. The Internet, it seems, is both a blessing and a curse.

Full article: http://www.westport-news.com/opinion/ci_4052852

Security Breaches Occur in Univeristies as well

I know it's a stretch but imagine for a moment that your information were stolen before you even had a credit history? Are students ideal identity theft victims?

In any case, I thought this was a good article from ComputerWorld and what we'll do is try to interpret these articles and share our point of view on them.

Full article: http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=112432&taxonomyId=17

Ohio's motor vehicles department just launched a new website allowing drivers to find out whether someone is using their name.

Source: http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/071306license.html