We often listen in news papers, blogs and in other media about the fraud in which some one steal identity record of a person and use it unfairly. The question arises, how the criminals theft the identity record?. There are many ways to obtain your particular records but mainly based ...

There are to many internal bank auditors that think that with a class or two can understand the issues surrounding banking IT security, business continuity, or networking infrustructure. It is the reason that OTS frowns on self audits for the IT infrastructure and frequently demands external audits. It is far ...

Holiday season shopping is at the peak and identity theft is also at its height. A police report that provides specific details of the identity theft is considered an Identity Theft Report, which entitles you to certain legal rights when it is provided to the three major credit reporting agencies ...

Web Application security has gotten a lot of attention lately as a often overlooked field. A lot of larger website hacks are due to custom holes found in an application on the website. Sometimes sites will use prepackaged scripts, or write their own. Benefits of using a ...

A misstep in preserving electronic data for litigation could mean defeat before the enemy is even engaged. According to Greg Fordham, a founder of K&F Consulting Inc., “Just not deleting anything off the computer isn’t enough.” “The continued use of a computer can alter important metadata such as file system date and ...

For fear of becomming the next victim of identity theft, 150 million U.S. consumers don’t bank online, according to experts. But the banking industry could improve profitability by as much as $8.3 billion per year if banks build consumers’ confidence in online security, according to the TriCipher Consumer Online Banking ...

An adviser to the UK Cabinet warns that civil servants’ low awareness of data security threats puts information collected by the government at risk. A key advisor to the Cabinet Office on information assurance issues, said that with the exception of the police, defence and intelligence communities, public servants have little ...

AKS-Labs has released a Windows privacy utility called RecentCleaner. With RecentCleaner one can check and clear the list of recently opened files. Recent files is a kind of link that program creates when the file is being opened. Almost all products create recently files, for instance Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...