IRS Slow to Notify Taxpayers About Personal Data Breaches

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Several weeks back, Sony Corporation got into a heap of trouble for not letting its customer know that their personal data was exposed in the massive PS2 breach.  It dominated the headlines.  It sparked a Congressional investigation and was ultimately a public relations nightmare for Sony Corporation. So what happens ...

Monday Morning News Kick Off: Facebook Enables ‘One-Click’ Identity Theft; ‘Call of Duty’ Gamers Hack Medical Server (For Real); World Cup Data Safe

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from the ITAC blog. In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we are doing a “light” post today on all current identity theft, data breach and cyber security news (all in one convenient spot). For those of us who ...

MIT Says Handing Over Your Identity Data Protects You

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Currently, identity is generally established when a person provides a single source of data such as a Social Security number, password, credit card number and so forth. Complicating things further, in the U.S. we have as many as 200 forms of ID circulating ...