Identity, Identifiers and Identity Fraud

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Leading Identity Management Vendors Join
Microsoft to Demonstrate Federated
Identity Using Web Services

Leading Identity Management Vendors Join
Microsoft to Demonstrate Federated
Identity Using Web Services 05/25/2004 11:30 PM
Microsoft Corp., together with six of the industry's leading identity management vendors, today previewed interoperable federated identity management solutions based on the Web services architecture (WS-*). Software companies IBM Corp., Netegrity Inc., Oblix Inc., OpenNetwork Technologies, Ping Identity Corp., RSA Security Inc. and Microsoft have successfully concluded work demonstrating how their identity management technologies interoperate using the Web Services Federation (WS-Federation) specification, part of the WS Security set of specifications. In his Tech•Ed keynote address today, Andrew Lees, corporate vice president for Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft, showed how federated identity management based on WS-Federation and the WS-* architecture will simplify the work of IT professionals as they seek to cut the cost and complexity of passing identity credentials across security and organization boundaries in a Web services environment.

FTC says identity theft, online fraud on
the rise

FTC says identity theft, online fraud on
the rise 01/22/2004 06:20 PM
The number of cases of identity theft -- the practice of running up bills or committing crimes in someone else's name -- was up 33% from 2002, according to an FTC report released today.

Identity Theft, Internet Fraud Reports
Up in U.S. (Reuters)

Identity Theft, Internet Fraud Reports
Up in U.S. (Reuters) 01/22/2004 03:22 PM
Reuters - Americans reported losses of $437 million last year to identity theft and fraud as scam artists made themselves at home on the Internet, according to federal statistics released on Thursday.

How Criminals are Phishing to Commit
Identity Theft and Fraud

How Criminals are Phishing to Commit
Identity Theft and Fraud 05/31/2004 01:51 PM
Phishing is a technique that criminals use to commit identity theft and fraud. CreditGUARD of America, a non-profit credit counseling agency, explains how to spot phishing and protect yourself from identity theft. [PRWEB May 31, 2004]

Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1
billion a year

Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1
billion a year 11/11/2003 10:17 PM
ZDNet Australia Nov 11 2003 9:28PM ET

What Everybody Ought to Know about
Protecting Themselves from Credit Card
Fraud and Identity Theft

What Everybody Ought to Know about
Protecting Themselves from Credit Card
Fraud and Identity Theft 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Protecting yourself from credit card fraud and identity theft has become even more important with the unrelenting succession of security breaches, such as last week's theft of 40 million credit card numbers. Here are seven specific things you can do now to help protect yourself from credit card fraud and identity theft. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

Identity theft, Internet-related fraud
top consumers' complaints

Identity theft, Internet-related fraud
top consumers' complaints 01/22/2004 03:24 PM
Boston Globe Jan 22 2004 7:07PM GMT

Carreker and ID Analytics join to fight
identity fraud in banking

Carreker and ID Analytics join to fight
identity fraud in banking 04/11/2005 11:37 PM
Computer Business Review Apr 12 2005 4:15AM GMT

Columnist Claims Identity Theft After
Investigating Fraud At Investment Firm

Columnist Claims Identity Theft After
Investigating Fraud At Investment Firm 02/01/2005 09:43 PM
Well known financial columnist Herb Greenberg has a fascinating article about how someone tried to snoop into his phone records. Apparently, someone pretending to be him turned on online reporting for both his Verizon cell phone and his SBC home phone. While he can't prove it, his suspicion is that it has something to do with a company he has written negatively about. The bogus online account opening occurred right after he wrote a negative article about investment firm Allied Capital. This could just be a coincidence, but once he found out that the same thing happened with both Verizon and SBC (he credits Verizon for at least sending a paper letter to his home notifying him of this -- something SBC didn't do), he called around to various sources for many different stories and asked them to check their own systems. It apparently happened to a bunch of sources -- all of whom had been investigating Allied Capital. He says he has no proof, and he knows the FBI is investigating, but as a reporter, he couldn't wait any longer and had to get the story out there.

Identity comes first

Identity comes first 02/13/2004 02:40 PM
If you're concerned enough about web services to want to manage them, they you'll be even more concerned to control who ...

What RSA has to do with federated
identity

What RSA has to do with federated
identity 05/26/2004 04:06 AM
Anyone like me with more than a few years in the networking trenches remembers when RSA was RSA Data Security, and was known as "...the world's brand name for cryptography..." (see link below).

Preserving Identity

Preserving Identity 08/27/2004 01:40 PM
Mark Pilgrim's Identifying Atom article indirectly makes three assertions about what would be ideal in a syndication protocol with respect to ids, which I will paraphrase thus ...

Firefox Identity

Firefox Identity 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Steven Garrity talks through being part of the Mozilla Visual Identity Team on Acts of Volition. Much of their work has been concentrated on branding Firefox (formerly Firebird) and it’s an insightful post into the creation of a design team. The post also links to Jon Hick’s weblog about the process involved in creating the new icon set. Mac OS X and Aqua has us spoiled with it’s ability to render high quality graphics, and I have to say that the new icon for Firefox is one of the finest looking icons I’ve seen in a long time.

NY AG Wants Do Not Identity Theft Law

NY AG Wants Do Not Identity Theft Law 04/18/2005 02:28 PM
New York's Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Eliot Spitzer seems to show up wherever there's an issue that's getting a lot of press. He took on Wall Street companies, spammers and insurance scammers among many others. So, is it really any surprise that he's now decided to take on identity theft? Of course, there already are laws against identity theft and fraud. While they could be made better, it's not clear that's what's happening here. In fact, one of the proposed laws speaks directly to all of those recent data leaks from ChoicePoint, LexisNexis and others. It would create a "Do Not Share" list that people could sign up for, forbidding any of these companies to share your data. While this might sound good on its face, it seems to be based on the idea that there really isn't a good reason for companies to ever share your data -- which isn't quite true. Many of the conveniences we have these days is because of the data that's available. Granted, in plenty of cases it may have gone too far, and these companies have done a dreadful job -- but a full stop "do not share" list (which many people would quickly sign up for without realizing the impact) could greatly inconvenience many people. A much more reasonable solution isn't to ban all sharing of information, but to give people more control and visibility into (1) what information companies have about them and (2) how it's being used. That way, individuals can work to prevent the misuses, while still getting the benefits.

Identity Commons

Identity Commons 09/09/2004 05:25 AM
Identity Commons
http://www.idcommons.net/

* you could navigate the Web using one easy-to-remember password?
* you could enter your personal data once and use it on many Web sites?
* you had a simple way of determining how information about you is used and disclosed by others?
* you could ensure that your personal information and identity was controlled by one person -- you?

At Identity Commons, they are striving to make this possible by creating the framework for trusted electronic communications. These tools will make your communications simple and convenient, secure yet verifiable. Individuals will be able to decide just how persistent, portable and private their online identity is, relationship by relationship; organizations that support this form of communication will derive greater value from their customer/member relationships while enhancing their reputation with customers. Serving as the backbone for this new technology are data sharing agreements that establish the parameters for the exchange and use of personal information between users. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Better security through identity

Better security through identity 09/09/2004 12:30 PM

Have identity, will travel

Have identity, will travel 04/14/2004 03:55 AM
I was in Sydney, Australia last week for Marcus Evans' Identity and Access Management Conference. There I listened to a number of people talk about projects they've done or have planned and I heard industry spokespeople talk about products and protocols. But the most memorable comment, to me, came from Peter F. Wilson, who is retired from the Australian Tax Office where he was charged with implementing e-business and commerce.

A Question of Identity

A Question of Identity 12/12/2002 07:47 AM
WebTechniques Dec 12 2002 6:24AM ET

Identity and Email

Identity and Email 06/18/2004 06:59 PM
...There are a number of ways to look at relationships. One is ties in a social network. If you plotted a graph of directional ties using email and and one using RSS they would be different, perhaps even the opposite....

The three laws of identity

The three laws of identity 12/19/2004 02:57 PM
If Kim Cameron, Microsoft's architect of directory services, had been a physicist, there might be one or two fewer buildings in Redmond today, and more holes in the ground - or maybe the world would be a lot better off.

An identity question

An identity question 04/10/2004 10:08 AM
I've been trying to work through some issues about digital identity by thinking about ordinary language uses of "identity," and this morning I came up with a question: If Superman is Clark Kent's secret identity,is Clark Kent Superman's secret identity? Talk amongst yourselves....

Identity crisis (XML.com)

Identity crisis (XML.com) 09/13/2002 06:40 PM

Packaged identity

Packaged identity 04/16/2004 03:45 AM
Last time I talked about identity management for travelers in the 19th century based, as it was, on letters of credit and letters of introduction. The problem, of course, was that not everyone had friends influential enough to provide a letter of introduction that would gain you entrance to the things you'd like to see. A number of enterprising gentlemen stepped into this breech, including one whose name is still very well known, Thomas Cook.

Mistaken Identity

Mistaken Identity 04/16/2004 06:19 PM
Interestingly, it seems that 'brightcreative.com' [which is in fact coming soon, despite the empty promise that particular wording entails] is generic enough a name to warrant mistaken identity. For example: let's say, hypothetically of course, that my server is...

Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis 09/12/2002 07:48 AM
Kendall Clark examines section 2 of the W3C Technical Architecture Groups "Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web", concerning Identifiers and Resources.

Why Pay To Be An Identity Thief?

Why Pay To Be An Identity Thief? 03/14/2005 05:27 PM
For all the furor over Choicepoint's selli ng of personal data to some identity thieves, some are pointing out that it doesn't make much sense for such thieves to buy the data when so much is available for free online. A professor has written a program searching out online resumes that often include the person's social security number -- making identity theft simple (and free). Of course, there are other methods of getting people's private info... such as offering to give them a cheap ballpoint pen or some chocolate. Even better, one study showed that people will give you their private info if you just ask for it nicely.

OS X and identity notes

OS X and identity notes 06/05/2005 11:32 PM
Make X11 forwarding work again in Tiger. I only use it to run the vmware-console so I thought something in RHEL had broken it. Doh. (via Jim) Turn off caps-lock in Tiger. Awesome. I remapped my caps lock to the control key. (Before 10.4 you could use uControl for this, but it was a bit of a pain to keep upgraded). OpenID - properly distributed identity system. I'm going to make the new identity/single sign on server I'm making support...

RSA launches identity manager

RSA launches identity manager 05/11/2004 10:39 AM
The security software maker's product is designed to help companies securely exchange digital identities of their customers with partners and other enterprises.

How we did with our identity management
resolutions

How we did with our identity management
resolutions 01/05/2005 06:26 AM
The old year has passed and a new one has dawned. Yet, we can never really discard the old year (as we can throw away the calendar) because its legacy lives on into the New Year. Still, each new year brings hope for a better life and to mark this hope we make New Year's resolutions - vows to better ourselves in some way. Last January, I offered three possible resolutions for the identity management industry - let's take a look at how well they were kept.

representations of digital identity

representations of digital identity 08/18/2004 04:51 PM
Representations of Digital Identity .. Call for Participation

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Calling Out Identity Thieves

Calling Out Identity Thieves 04/01/2005 05:37 PM
Wired News Apr 1 2005 8:32PM GMT

Is identity theft inevitable?

Is identity theft inevitable? 04/01/2005 11:21 AM

Wishing for a single identity

Wishing for a single identity 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
Last issue we began looking at the use of a person's e-mail address as the username needed for authentication in an identity management scheme. Usernames have to be unique - at least within their context. E-mail addresses need to be unique also, or else the mail won't get through. So it seems like a perfect match, right?

You Can Be Anyone You Want: Identity
Theft Is Easy

You Can Be Anyone You Want: Identity
Theft Is Easy 09/02/2004 05:50 PM
MSNBC, which has been covering identity theft stories for quite some time, is now running a very long excerpt from a book about identity theft called < i>Your Evil Twin : Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic. It goes over the stories of a few of the biggest identity theft criminals around, showing just how they impersonated the rich and famous to take their money. The scary part, of course, was just how easy it was -- and how unsophisticated the scams really were. While the press hyped up the capture of one of the criminals, in looking at the details, it becomes clear that the guy made a lot of silly mistakes (such as using the same free email account for a variety of his scams -- often within the same bank). The real culprit is the system by which the credit card companies and the credit bureaus run their businesses. As it stands, they have very little incentive to actually secure the system. Instead, they let it the crimes occur, and let everyone else deal with the mess.

Sun's identity pitch

Sun's identity pitch 12/16/2003 12:30 PM
At SunNetwork 2003 back in September, Jonathan Schwartz made the case that the Java card is the most strategic piece of Sun's whole technology stack. Actually, I'd say per-employee pricing is the real strategic innovation. But I've always hoped to see movement on the identity card front, so this clip, in which Schwartz stresses something I've been harping on for years, got my attention:

Java card support will be built into the desktop that we offer. It is the fundamental way we will help people to understand that if there were a menu item in your mail app that said, 'Show only mail from people that have been strongly authenticated,' then spam would disappear. 'Show me only content that has been strongly authenticated,' viruses would disappear.

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Identity Management is Key for Novell

Identity Management is Key for Novell 09/21/2004 08:30 PM
Identity-based IT infrastructure would allow organizations to work in a more agile manner.

Keeping your identity under lock and key

Keeping your identity under lock and key 05/07/2004 01:29 PM
Last issue, I talked about the differences between WS-Federation and the Liberty Alliance schemes for federated identity. While having a free-ranging discussion with Arvind Krishna, IBM's Vice President of Provisioning and Security Development, I realized that the major obstacle to consumer acceptance of federated identity might be the issue of where data is stored: on the local PC, at a single "identity provider" site, or scattered among all of the organizations with which the user has accounts.

Dumpster-Diving for Your Identity

Dumpster-Diving for Your Identity 12/19/2003 07:29 PM
The NYT magazine has a story titled Dumpster-Diving for Your Identity - the author interviews two convicted identity thieves talking about their methods and ...

Invasion of the identity snatchers

Invasion of the identity snatchers 09/24/2004 07:38 AM
They're coming. Don't fall asleep
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