Friday, July 30, 2004

Lakers' draft pick in Identity Theft

SignonSanDiego.com reports on this item. The scheme involved false slip-and-fall claims.

7/30/2004 09:22:00 AM  

Thursday, July 29, 2004

MessageLevel's Anti-Spoofing and Anti-Phishing Solutions

MessageLevel announced the availability of their email security solution that provides anti-spoofing and anti-phishing capabilities. The solutions is either enterprise-based appliance or desktop-based solution. More details about how it works can be found on Yahoo.

7/29/2004 09:39:00 AM  

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

MessageGate's new Phishing Solution

MessageGate announced the launch of their SPF/SenderID-based enterprise email security solution to combat phishing.

"Companies need to take a holistic approach to the detection and prevention of phishing by using all of the technology tools available to them," said Matt Cain, senior vice president at Meta Group. "Phishers have become more sophisticated about how they send out messages and rather than cast a wide net, they now prefer to target e-mails at very specific groups of people. Traditional anti-spam technology by itself will not solve this problem. To effectively fight against phishing, a solution must have the ability to analyze both headers and content to uncover the types of discrepancies and inconsistencies that mark a phishing attack."

Details here.

7/27/2004 10:19:00 AM  

Monday, July 26, 2004

No marriage certificate for you; You're already married!

South African women have been warned of identity theft that leads to fake marriage certificates issued at $833 each. Yes! The women are asked to periodically check for any fake certificates issued on their name. Most of the buyers come from Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt,India, Bangladesh, and Brazil.

7/26/2004 03:06:00 PM  

SSP-Litronic Advances Secure Identity Management

SSP-Litronic announced jForte smart card management system that provides high assurance identity and access management, privacy, and secure communications. More details here.

7/26/2004 09:58:00 AM  

Internet Commerce Grows 13.2%; Phishing Attacks Become More Acute and Globally Diverse

Verisign reports that the phishing trend is growing. The report features a spotlight on phishing. See here for details.

7/26/2004 09:51:00 AM  

Friday, July 23, 2004

Fishcher Int'l announces IdM system

Fischer International announced its comprehensive IdM suite that would include password management, provisioning, user self-service, mobile access, organization charts, among other features. More details on Business Wire.

7/23/2004 08:53:00 AM  

Thursday, July 22, 2004

IM and Phishing

CRN reports that Instant Messages are the latest carriers of the phish bait. This is accomplished using pop-up ads that have mal links to phishing web sites.

7/22/2004 02:14:00 PM  

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Novell Previews Liberty-Based Identity Federation Solution

Novell previews the Liberty-certified technology for identity management. Codenamed "Odyssey", the technology is expectd to hit the markets in the first half of 2005. See here for more.

7/21/2004 11:15:00 AM  

Microsoft to Partner with the Feds

MS is giving $46000 and a software analyst that will provide the FBI with realtime data to curb phishing.

7/21/2004 10:36:00 AM  

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Phishing linked to organized crime

Bank Systems & Technology reports that phishing is linked to organized crime.

7/20/2004 04:55:00 PM  

Oblix announces new IdM system

Following the acquisition of Confluent, Oblix has incorporated the latter's web services technology to offer a new IdM system. This is just another development in the IdM industry where an M&A has facilitated a new offering from the acquirer. News article here.

7/20/2004 09:53:00 AM  

Mobile Solution for Phishing

Wireless & Mobile Solutions, Inc. has introduced a mobile solution to mitigate phishing in online banking.

"SOPRANO MobileAuthenticator(TM), is one of the first mobile security layers to utilize mobile technology to validate consumers and protect online banking transactions."

Read more here.

7/20/2004 09:45:00 AM  

Monday, July 19, 2004

First Pocket PC Virus Emerges

The first Pocket PC virus has been discovered by the security companies. The virus is just a discovery that highlights a flaw in the Windows CE OS, and is not expected to spread.

7/19/2004 07:13:00 PM  

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Bush to sign anti-phishing bill

President Bush will sign the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act (ITPEA) today. The bill establishes punishment guidelines for anyone involved in stealing identities and personal information. More details here.

7/15/2004 10:41:00 AM  

Home Office in the UK unveils new site for id theft education

NetImperative announces the launch of a new web site aimed to educate citizens of identity theft, and helplines.

This only shows how much the governments are interested in addressing the issues around identity theft.

7/15/2004 07:28:00 AM  

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Phishing will cost Financial Services $400M this year

Finextra reports a research published by Finacial Insights on the effect of phishing on financial services industry.

"Sophie Louvel, research analyst and author of the report, says most of the anti-phishing systems currently available are focused on detection of phishing attacks, but it will require significant and widespread security enhancements to e-mail technology - including sender authentication - to curb these attacks."

7/14/2004 02:09:00 PM  

Corillian announces new anti-phishing system

Finextra reports on the new anti-phihshing system from Corillian.

7/14/2004 02:07:00 PM  

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Scammers get scammed

This ia an interesting and funny article from BBC on the 419 Niger Scam.

7/13/2004 01:02:00 PM  

Symantec buys TurnTide

Symantec took over TurnTide for its anti-spam utility in multi-million dollar deal. This is just another big-fish-eats-small-fish thing in the area of security due to the growing need of utilities. TurnTide was a spin off from ePrivacy Group.

7/13/2004 09:58:00 AM  

Friday, July 09, 2004

Smartcards could reduce frauds: Mastercard

Scott provides a link to an article where Mastercard exec thinks adoption of smartcards could reduce frauds.

7/09/2004 01:38:00 PM  

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Mobile scheme aims to stop spam

"Mobile users have more protection from premium rate spam text messages thanks to a new consumer protection scheme." See BBC for details.

7/08/2004 01:01:00 PM  

Bendigo signs up Vasco for anti-phishing tokens

ZDNet reports that Bendigo, an Australian regional bank cut a deal with Vasco for anti-phishing tokens.

7/08/2004 08:04:00 AM  

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Vivendi picks Sigaba for Secure Messaging

Vivendi Universal Games selected Sigaba's Secure Message Platform. The solution is aimed at addressing privacy and security of confidential e-communications.

7/07/2004 04:05:00 PM  

Secure SMS Messaging

Not sure about why "phishing" is mentioned in this article by TelephonyWorld. However, seems like an interesting solution to look for.

7/07/2004 03:55:00 PM  

ID theft in a 'fake' wedding... and a consequential 'divorce'

Identity theft hits a new low where Norwegian women's ID has been supposedly used by a conman in his marriage, followed by a divorce. See here more details.

7/07/2004 08:01:00 AM  

AuthenTec raises $15MM; led by Carlyle Group

AuthenTec, a semiconductor provider for biometric sensors has received $15MM in financing.

7/07/2004 06:51:00 AM  

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

NEC first to get evaluated in fingerprint technology

NEC has been ranked the first technology vendor to get evaluated for their biometric offering. See more details on this here. Thanks to Scott for the link.

7/06/2004 03:19:00 PM  

Barclaycard trials new card to combat phishing

Barclays and nCipher trials new card and reader to combat phishing. See here for more details.

7/06/2004 12:46:00 PM  

Identity Theft: 3 held

WTNH.com says three people have been held in a case related to Identity theft.

7/06/2004 07:52:00 AM  

Are IE users the most vulnerable?

Experts believe there will be a mass exodus to other browsers because IE is prone to attacks. Of course, Microsoft doesn't think so.

7/06/2004 07:43:00 AM  

Phishing using legitimate web sites

Check eWeek's article on how phishers use a two step approach, and a legitimate web site in social engineering.

7/06/2004 07:37:00 AM  

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Liberty Alliance Issues Compliance Certificates

Security Pipeline reports that Liberty Alliance consortium has issued compliance certificates to vendors in en effort to promote adoption of their interoperable standards.

7/01/2004 01:12:00 PM  

GOVSEC, U.S. Law, and READY! meeting July 28/29 in Washington DC

Thousands of professionals from industry and government are ready to meet in DC for expositions on July 28/29, 2004. See more details here.

7/01/2004 10:07:00 AM  

Phishing is not as bad as the survey points out...

Fox reports about a comment bankers are making about phishing.

"We really have no evidence that that's how people are making unauthorized transactions through online banking," said Nessa Feddis, of the American Bankers Association (search). "Online banking is one more mechanism to use your bank account; just as with any payment mechanism there's going to be attempts at fraud. That's what criminals do."

7/01/2004 09:59:00 AM