Tag Archives: Forensics / Incidents
Businessweek: Business Entities Victims of Identity Theft Too
July 24, 2007 – 6:00 am
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Businessweek reports that businesses may become victims of identity theft too. The scam is called a “business bust-out”:
A criminal rents space in the same building as your company. Then he applies for corporate credit cards using your firm’s name. The application passes a…
Counterfeit and Foreign Currency: The Retail Game of Hot Potato
March 26, 2007 – 7:11 am
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Saturday morning I received a counterfeit penny at Starbucks. I know for certain I received the counterfeit penny at Starbucks because I only visited three stores that morning: two were Starbucks where I paid cash and a third which I charged for my items. I discovered the penny when I returned…
A Physical False Positive in Hollywood
March 14, 2007 – 6:15 am
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Even the LAPD can have a false positive!
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VA Data Breach Worsens… A PR nightmare, according to SC Magazine
February 21, 2007 – 6:59 am
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SC Magazine is quoted as saying that:
The public relations nightmare for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) worsened this week with the announcement that last month’s loss of a relatively low impact hard drive loss actually affected 1.8 million people.
As I blogged February 7th in…
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