(Update: corrected a few things. You can’t see the person’s bank account number. But you can see anyone’s phone bill, whether or not they’re a customer of that bank.) — Here’s a hole in Internet banking that allows anyone with an account at a bank to look up other customers’ people’s bills–tax, water bill, Internet… Read More »
Well, actually the article, from research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc., doesn’t say that. But it does say Identity Theft Is Up Nearly 80 Percent, and that 7 Million U.S. Adults Were Identity Theft Victims in the Past 12 Months. Which seems to be a lot. That’s 3.4 percent of U.S. consumers, I can’t help… Read More »
Loose Wire — Calling All Suckers By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 11 July 2002 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review, (c) 2003, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. I wish people would stop being so cynical. Why do they assume that every spam e-mail they receive is a scam? Just because the pitch “Hi,… Read More »