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