I saw Beth's post today on her blog titled "Identity Theft: Only 6% From Data Breaches?" and was interested to read. She refers to an article "Data breaches yield few ID thefts, survey says - A bigger danger: Stolen wallets and checkbooks" that discussed identity thefts and this article claims that the biggest culprit is theft of wallets or checkbooks. I have to wonder about these results. Is this based on actual numbers of crimes or numbers of identities stolen. One wallet - likely to be one identity theft. One database breach can be 10s of thousands and in some cases millions of identities stolen. Imagine the number of wallets stolen every day, a lot are most likely stolen for the contents (Money and cards) for use not to clone or steal identities. This would seem to imply that large data breaches result in very small numbers of identities being stolen. This is an interesting study, the article sites two other studies that seem to back up the claims.
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September 2006
- Nice post on an undocumented function - Reverse - 09/01/2006 by 09/01/2006
- Interesting post about protecting PL/SQL - 09/03/2006 by 09/03/2006
- I will be speaking at the IT Underground in Rome - 09/04/2006 by 09/04/2006
- Nice idea on audition using trace events - 09/05/2006 by 09/05/2006
- Pete Finnigan podcast interview on Oracle security - 09/07/2006 by 09/07/2006
- Nice network trace tool - 09/08/2006 by 09/08/2006
- Identity theft is becoming main stream - 09/09/2006 by 09/09/2006
- IT Underground conference in Rome cancelled at last minute - 09/12/2006 by 09/12/2006
- Cache missing for fun and profit - 09/15/2006 by 09/15/2006
- Pete Finnigan at UKOUG 2006 - 09/18/2006 by 09/18/2006
- Exploit screencasts - 09/19/2006 by 09/19/2006
- Two years of Oracle Security blogging and still going strong - 09/20/2006 by 09/20/2006
- Only 6% of identity theft can be attributed to data theft. - 09/22/2006 by 09/22/2006
- Eddie on another undocumented function - 09/25/2006 by 09/25/2006
- Security Inside - 09/28/2006 by 09/28/2006
- Security professionals at risk from hacking laws - 09/29/2006 by 09/29/2006
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