The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization ...
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I’m sure that many of you have already seen the above Uniball commercial that explains some of the benefits of their pens in preventing identity theft and fraud, and I know that there have been some other good posts on other pen ...
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Almost a third of European citizens lack confidence in using the internet for financial transactions. A survey of 27,000 citizen across EU member states, commissioned by the European Commission (EC), reported that internet users are ...
I’ve noticed that office supplies are really everywhere you look, and Washington DC is no exception. The month of June happens to be full of travel for me this year, last weekend was Washington DC, this weekend is Boston, and the ...
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The new processors are based on Intel's 22nm microarchitecture Chip maker Intel has released its third generation Intel Core vPro processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, designed for use in business laptops, desktops PCs and Ultrabook devices. ...
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Symetra Life Insurance, a subsidiary of Washington-based Symetra Financial, has added ComPsych's HealthChampion plan to its portfolio of value-add programs for group life and disability income (DI) insurance customers. The HealthChampion ...
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NASA is scrambling to implement full disk encryption on agency laptops after one containing unencrypted personal information on a"large"number of people was recently stolen. Agency employees were told of the October 31 theft of the ...
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The number of consumer smartphone and tablets brought into workplaces will more than double by 2014, according to a recent study, but security on the endpoints is lacking. Juniper Research claims the number of devices being used in the ...
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While the risk of being hacked,conned or having sensitive information stolen is possible all through the year,most security experts agree that the holiday season brings a spike in fraudulent activity,both online and off. CSO compiled a ...
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Using non-secured public Wi-Fi hotspots can leave you vulnerable to identity theft,data theft,snooping,impersonation and malware infection.That's why so many people rely on public virtual private network services,but VPNs are no ...
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Computerworld-In the biggest data compromise of the year,Social Security Numbers(SSN)belonging to about 3.6 million residents in South Carolina have been exposed in an intrusion into a computer at the state's Department of Revenue. ...
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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world,including Harvard,Stanford,the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. ...
Experian,the global information services company,announced its 192business unit has been selected by the Law Society as its preferred supplier of electronic identity verification tools for anti-money laundering purposes. 192business,part ...
The FBI on Tuesday denied that the 1 million unique device identifiers for Apple devices(UDIDs)posted publicly by hacker group AntiSec on Monday had come from its computers. In a brief statement,the FBI's national press office said the ...
The Identity Theft Resource Center(ITRC),a nationally recognized non-profit focusing on identity theft and related issues,has just launched a survey to discover the habits of consumers using public wireless Internet connections(public ...
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