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Cybercriminals, Insiders May Work Together To Attack Businesses For 19 months, an employee at Johns Hopkins Hospital allegedly stole patients’ identities, feeding the information to four outsiders who used the data to charge more than $600,000 in goods on store credit. Jasmine Amber Smith, 25, has been charged with using her inside access to fuel the identity theft ring. Employees working with cybercriminals might not be the norm for security breaches, but it’s not a rare crime, either, experts say.

Identity Theft Council Aims To Bring “Neighborhood Watch” Concept To Cybersecurity Despite millions of dollars in spending and millions of hours in training, identity theft has become more widespread in 2010 than at any point in history. Maybe, a new industry group suggests, it’s time to take a different approach. The Identity Theft Council, a new consortium of business and law enforcement entities that launched earlier this week in San Francisco, proposes to attack the ID theft problem in reverse: Instead of going global, it’s going local — and personal

MySpace.com accompanies Facebook.com in hall of privacy breaching shame Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 11:56:04 AM It’s been revealed that Myspace.com has been caught sharing user data with third parties days after comparable revelations at Facebook, its larger social networking rival. According to The Wall Street Journal, advertisers could potentially link user identification numbers to personal information

Anti-US hacker takes credit for ‘Here you have’ email worm A hacker who claims he was behind a fast-spreading email worm that crippled corporate networks last week said that the worm was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool. The hacker, known as Iraq Resistance, responded to inquiries sent to an email address associated with the “Here you have” worm, which during a brief period early Thursday accounted for about 10 percent of the spam on the Internet

Web Hosting News – DENVER – Ping Identity® CTO Patrick Harding will join Arctec Group Managing Principal Gunnar Peterson on August 19, for a special Webinar hosted by the Computer Security Institute. “Cloud Security: The Identity Factor” will discuss the critical role of Identity in Cloud Security. The Webinar will address the dangers of synchronizing passwords, and why Internet Single Sign-On is a secure alternative.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: 1&1 Launches Domain Packages That Guard Against Domain Misuse News: VeriSign Collaborates with Industry Leaders to Bring Trust to the Cloud News: CenturyLink Acquires Telecom Qwest for $22.4B (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In an effort to foster new levels of trust in online services, Internet infrastructure services provider VeriSign ( www.verisign.com ) is collaborating with other industry leaders to develop online identity best practices and market solutions for enterprise cloud services and applications.