kcredden
August 15th, 2006, 11:42 AM
Spotted this, and thought this is something everyone needs to know. - KC
Keeping your identity on a short leash
Terry Cutler is a Canadian-based support engineer with Novell and a certified Ethical Hacker, and wants to get the news out to people on how they can and should protect their information and their identities from the many pitfalls of the Internet age. The following is a guide that he has provided to canada.com in order to inform our readers.
A new illegal enterprise is preying on our citizens, attracting the likes of criminals, gangs and illicit organizations. Crooks hack into company computers to steal the private information — and sometimes the full identities — of their customers.
And the fact is, many companies who have been hacked fail to inform their customers about what has — or might have — happened to such private information, and there is no law that forces them to do so.
More here
(http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=49bd5735-8b67-42c8-abc5-cab4bdc41174&k=85027)
Keeping your identity on a short leash
Terry Cutler is a Canadian-based support engineer with Novell and a certified Ethical Hacker, and wants to get the news out to people on how they can and should protect their information and their identities from the many pitfalls of the Internet age. The following is a guide that he has provided to canada.com in order to inform our readers.
A new illegal enterprise is preying on our citizens, attracting the likes of criminals, gangs and illicit organizations. Crooks hack into company computers to steal the private information — and sometimes the full identities — of their customers.
And the fact is, many companies who have been hacked fail to inform their customers about what has — or might have — happened to such private information, and there is no law that forces them to do so.
More here
(http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=49bd5735-8b67-42c8-abc5-cab4bdc41174&k=85027)