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Understand Your Identity Fraud Risk With My ID Score Analysis

Has personal security been relegated into a simple graph that shows your risk? Fraud, and even phishing risks are real. Is this capitalizing on FUD? Like many people, I'm worried about identity fraud. Not paranoid, just generally curious what the chances are that I could be victimized by things like mail theft. Sure, I could sign up for one of the fee-based identity fraud monitoring services like LifeLock or Debix, or I can get a credit report that might give me some clue that a credit card has been taken out by someone else in my name. Now there is a Web site that offers an assessment of a person's identity fraud risk for free. . The My ID Score site was recently launched by ID Analytics, which offers corporations and consumers services to protect them against identity fraud. The site scans the company's ID Network, billed as the largest identity fraud database in the U.S., to see what types of activities and transactions have been made in your name. It looks at hundreds of variables and data points and then looks for anomalies, such as credit card applications on the same day with different addresses or pre-paid cell phone purchases in a short period of time, said Thomas Oscherwitz, chief privacy officer at ID Analytics. The link for this article located at CNET is no longer available. . Our ID Vet platform provides no-cost evaluations for potential identity theft threats, leveraging comprehensive data insights.. Identity Risk,Fraud Assessment,Online Service,Monitoring Tool. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Jun 11, 2009 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Privacy
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RainbowCrack Online Subscription-Based Hash Cracking Service Launch

Over the past two years, three security enthusiasts from the United States and Europe set a host of computers to the task of creating eleven enormous tables of data that can be used to look up common passwords. The tables--totaling 500GB-- form the core data of a technique known as rainbow cracking, which uses vast dictionaries of data to let anyone reverse the process of creating hashes--the statistically unique codes that, among other duties, are used to obfuscate a user's password. . Last week, the trio went public with their service. Called RainbowCrack Online, the site allows anyone to pay a subscription fee and submit password hashes for cracking. "Usually people think that a complex, but short, password is very secure, something like $FT%_3^," said Travis, one of the founders of RainbowCrack Online, who asked that his last name not be used. "However, you will find that our tables handle that password quite easily." While security professionals have questions whether a business can be created by offering access to rainbow tables, the endeavor does highlight the weaknesses in security of password-only authentication. History has shown that password systems are imminently breakable. The link for this article located at SecurityFocus is no longer available. . Last week, the trio went public with their service. Called RainbowCrack Online, the site allows anyo. years, three, security, enthusiasts, united, states, europe. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Nov 10, 2005 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Hacks/Cracks
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