Archive for August, 2007

Sister jailed for identity theft

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

A woman who stole her sister’s identity, obtaining over £123,000 of goods, is jailed for 15 months.

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CVV

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

The CVV (Card Verification Value) is a part of the of the magnetic track data in the credit card itself. CVV2/CVC2/CID information is the 3 or 4 digit code on the back of the signature strip of a credit or debit card (or on the front of American Express cards).

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key management

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

A collection of procedures involved with the generation, exchange, storage, safeguarding, use, vetting, and replacement of encryption keys. Key management is essential to the secure ongoing operation of any cryptosystem.

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Monster attack steals user data

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.

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E-passport to check Nigeria fraud

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Nigeria introduces a chip-based e-passport to check growing cases of forgery and identity theft.

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