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security
UPDATE: Win $1000
By 5.22.06
We want you to have $1000 and will give you a prize for just trying to collect it.
Source Documents Implicating AT&T and NSA Internet Spying
By 5.22.06
At 2:00 AM EST this morning, Wired News published primary documents incriminating the NSA and AT&T in a clandestine surveillance operation by the government to monitor the internet.
Target’s Current Affairs Doormat
By 5.15.06
Damn spooks showing at the doorstep, traipsing inside and getting their dirty data-miner boots all over the wall-to-wall shag carpet. Now you can remind them to wipe AND obtain a warrant before entering, with this fetching doormat from Target.
BREAKING: Wells Fargo Loses Laptop With Customers Private Data
By 5.12.06
Lee received a letter today from Wells Fargo notifying him that they lost a laptop containing his and other customer’s private data.
BREAKING: NSA Has Massive Database of Americans’ Phone Calls
By 5.11.06
Good thing we installed that intricate secret network of tin cans and string. Reports USA TODAY:
Baby’s Identity Stolen By Crackhead
By 5.4.06
Even our nation’s fat Churchill-looking cherubs aren’t safe from identity theft. The parents of a three week old baby in Bothell, Washington discovered he had his identity stolen when he got a bill from a local hospital for $94.The bill was in relation to a lumbar disc displacement and a prescriped dose of narcotics to deal with the pain.
HOW TO: Get Through Having Your Identity Stolen
By 5.3.06
After our last post on identity theft, regular Consumerist commenter trixare4kids sent us a great, well-crafted email detailing her own experience having her identity stolen. Better yet, she wrote us a personalized How To for getting through an identity theft crisis.
Interviewing The Victims Of Identity Theft
By 5.2.06
The Dayton Daily News has a good article up interviewing the victims of identity theft and describing how their lives have changed because of it. Although we’re all concerned by the murky underworld of Eastern European hackers that prey upon badly secured financial records, the article is a good reminder that most identity theft actually originates with people close to you: friends, relatives and (natch) employees of the very institutions you trust to keep your financial details safe.
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Does Passwords, Not Security
By 4.28.06
We hate remembering passwords. We have enough arbitrary code phrases in our life to remember, like the one we have to try to remember when our girlfriend cinches that plastic sack over our head. So Microsoft’s Fingerprint Reader software seemed pretty cool to us.
After Losing Student’s Money, Citibank Badgers Him
By 4.24.06
Joseph is an American student stranded in in Germany after his meagre monies just got jacked via a Citibank security breach, one that Citibank would like to blame him for.
New Debit Card Vulnerability
By 4.24.06
Your debit card could be stolen and used without the thieves even having to hack your PIN code.
Fidelity Loses Laptop Containing Customers’ Personal Info
By 4.20.06
A Fidelity laptop containing customer’s personal data was stolen on March 15th but one man didn’t find out until last week, April 13th.
Consumers Think Online Banking Sucks
By 4.18.06
Banks are continuing to feel the sting of their own cyber-incompetence. After much publicized security breaches like the Citibank scandal, more and more customers are moving away from online banking due to fears of identity theft. The growth of online banking as an industry in 2005 was only 3.1%, sharply down from the growth of previous years.
90% of US Account Holders Think Bank Security Sucks
By 4.10.06
You just know your entire industry is gang raping the pooch when statistics like these are coming out:
