Thursday, March 11, 2010
It's National Consumer Protection Week - Are You Prepared? The truth is in numbers found in reports like Javelin's Identity Theft Survey or Guardian Analytics/Ponemon's new Business Banking Trust Study, where the numbers point to an increasingly focused criminal element targeting consumers and businesses with a growing list of threats, all aimed to remove cash and data from them. BankInfoSecurity.com (blog) - Mike D'Agostino, Sanjay Kalra
Jihad Jane : Charged with plotting terror in South Asia Colleen LaRose, 46, who was arrested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct 15, has also been charged with making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Calcutta Tube (blog) - Ankan Basu
Dubai, Interpol adds 15 arrest warrants in Hamas death Interpol, based in Lyons, insists on the likely use of identity theft by the murderers. GenevaLunch (blog)
LifeLock Will Pay $12 Million to Settle Charges by the FTC and 35 States That Identity Theft Prevention and Data Security Claims... has agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that the company used false claims to promote its identity theft protection services, which it widely advertised by displaying the CEO's Social Security number on the side of a truck. Media Newswire
CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINER TO GIVE LECTURE AT SHU Many people will become a victim of identity theft this year. Media Newswire