Rocky Mountain Bank, a small regional bank in Wyoming, has been in the news recently because it sued Google to reveal the identity of the owner of a GMail account to which the bank accidentally sent customer data. In addition, the bank wanted Google to delete that email as well as deactivate the user’s account. [...]

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A lot of attention has been given to increasing awareness about phishing. The goal of phishing is to lure unsuspecting people to voluntarily give up their website credentials with the intent of exploiting those credentials for financial or other gain. Some phishing scams only seem to spam and propagate itself. Most web savvy users know [...]

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Most of my Twitter conversation yesterday focused around data loss, identity theft and credit cards. The point of the discussion was that while consumers must be vigilant to protect their personal and financial data, most of it is out of their hands. The bigger problem is protecting the organizations that collect, transport, and store this [...]

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