Profile of Gregg Keizer

Blog Posts: 28

Consumers Want Better Online Banking Security

1/25/2007
Consumers are ready to start using stronger authentication technologies and want their banks and brokerage houses to monitor online transactions for suspicious activity.

Analyst: Banks Must Make Credit Card Accounts Useless To Data Thieves

1/24/2007
Adding one-time password capability to credit and debit cards might prevent incidents similar to the data breach revealed last week by TJX.

New Phisher Tactic: Pay Me or I'll Kill You

1/12/2007
The message claims to come from a professional hit man who supposedly has orders to murder the recipient, but will drop the contract if he is paid $80,000.

FTC Mails Refund Forms To ChoicePoint Data Breach Victims

12/7/2006
Reparation forms must be postmarked by Feb. 4 to be considered, according to the FTC.

Phishers Pocket $2.8 Billion From Unsuspecting Consumers

11/9/2006
Criminals running phishing scams are raking in more money than ever, according to a Gartner survey.

PayPal Pays $5.2 Million To Settle Suits

9/29/2006
The eBay subsidiary also promised to streamline its user agreement and provide more information about how it's protecting users' financial data.

ID Scams Require Taking Hammer To Used Hard Drives

8/21/2006
What's the safest way to protect data on old hard drives? Pound. Pound. Pound. Pound them into little pieces. That's the advice of one security analyst who says data crooks are buying recycled hard drives and mining them for data.

Security Cleanup Costs Much More Than Encryption: Gartner

6/6/2006
Encryption can cost as little as $6 per customer account, while cleanup after a breach can go upwards of $90 per customer account.

Smarter Spam Could Mimic Friends’ Mail

5/1/2006
The next-generation of spam-sending zombies will show a frightening amount of intelligence.

Chinese Bank Hosts Phishing Site

3/13/2006
Hits Chase, eBay customers.

Charles Schwab To Cover All Fraud Losses

2/22/2006
The online broker issues a guarantee against losses from unauthorized account access, the latest online trader to try and calm customer jitters about phishing scams.

E-payment Provider Hit With Denial-of-Service

2/13/2006
An online payment processor's Web site has recovered from a two-day denial-of-service attack that knocked it out of commission.

eBay, PayPal, Yahoo Jump On VeriSign Authentication Network Bandwagon

2/13/2006
VeriSign unveils a new security system to protect online buyers from identity theft.

Security ’Geek’ Advised New Harrison Ford Movie

2/9/2006
The founder of a managed security services firm was on-set for three weeks, acting as technical adviser for Ford's new movie, "Firewall," which opened Friday and involves a high-tech bank heist.

Cybercrime Feared 3 Times More Than Physical Crime

1/25/2006
Recent poll data, indicating that data breaches and identity thievery are changing consumer behavior, have been confirmed by a report released Wednesday by IBM

Small Data Breaches Pose Big Identity Theft Risks

12/8/2005
That's because of the limited number of identities a criminal can actually put to use in a set amount of time, a new study says.

Phishing Attacks Slip For Second Straight Month

10/17/2005
The number of phishing attacks spammed to computer users fell for the second straight month, the Anti-Phishing Working says.

California Enacts Tough Anti-phishing Law

10/3/2005
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed anti-phishing legislation into law.

Credit Companies Promise Tighter Security

9/26/2005
The big three U.S. credit reporting firms said they will jointly develop a common encryption scheme to better protect sensitive customer data.

Bill Puts Spotlight Back On Data Theft

7/19/2005
Several prominent U.S. Senators, including the leaders of the Commerce Committee, have introduced another bill that takes on the growing online menace of identity and data theft.

Senate Ponders Toughest Data Protection Bill Yet

6/30/2005
Two senior U.S. Senators introduced a wide-ranging data protection bill that would send officials from companies who do not disclose security breaches to jail for up to five years, and bring the RICO Act to bear on identity theft gangs.

Phishing Costs Nearly $1 Billion

6/24/2005
Phishing scams cost Americans nearly $1 billion during the last year, a research firm says in a recently-released survey.

Senate, FTC Push For Identity Theft Law

6/16/2005
A Senate committee pondered national identity protection legislation in a hearing Thursday that took testimony and solicited answers from all five members of the Federal Trade Commission.

Phishers Turn To Devious Tricks

5/4/2005
While traditional phishing attacks may be growing slower than ever, more devious identity thievery tactics are starting to crop up, the Anti-Phishing Working Group says.

Phishers Moving Away From E-Mail ’Lures’

3/28/2005
Phishing attacks were up slightly in February, the Anti-Phishing Working Group reports, but the trend toward even sneakier ways of scamming identities is growing quickly.

Keyloggers Foiled In Attempted $423 Million Bank Heist

3/17/2005
British authorities stymied a massive bank heist that reportedly was dependent on a keylogger, the same kind of spyware that has jumped three-fold in the last year and puts consumers at risk from hackers and phishers.

Study: Cyberattacks Initiated by Professional Criminals

3/10/2005
More than half the cyber-attacks conducted in 2004 were carried out by criminals interested in only one thing: money, a security intelligence firm said.

New Phishing Tactic Dangles Millions As Bait

2/18/2005
Phishers twisted a long-standing scam tactic into their newest technique to fake consumers out of their bank account information -- and the money in those accounts.