Identity theft

Technology has shaped many parts of our lifestyle’s from movement from one point to another (GPS), all the way to maintaining all of our hard earned funds on a piece of plastic. The question at hand is how this is all protected and who enforces it? Network security has proven beneficial in many cases in today’s society. It continuously monitors the companies system ensuring that unauthorized access isn’t permitted, or as we like to believe keeping our information from falling into the wrong…

Each day through the use of emails, research, internet, and dating sites, personal information (Big Data, geolocation,) is being modified and introduced to third parties for consumption. According to Daniel J. Solove, the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, he states that in his article, one of the bloggers proclaimed: “Do I care if the FBI monitors my phone calls? I have nothing to hide. Neither does the 99.99 percent of the population.…

Arguably the biggest challenges include the loss of privacy and the loss of control of personal information. Schmidt and Cohen state that “in the future, our identities in everyday life will come to be defined more and more by our virtual activities and associations” (31). An individual’s on-line identity will impact their opportunities and limit their control of how they are perceived by others (32). This is occurring already to some extent. The plethora of data and information…

Health care privacy, thus extensive personal and sensitive digital patient data, is highly valued, and must be secured to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability. Current and accurate health data must be readily accessible for professionals to provide quality patient care (e.g., correct drug dosage), while being protected from unauthorized users. Unfortunately, data breaches are increasingly commonplace, occurring most often in the health care and business sectors (ITRC, 2016).…

aren’t going around sharing it with other countries or people. It is an example of how our nation keeps our information private while still having access to it; we trust them to keep that number safe from others getting ahold of it (tying back to identity…

spear phishing attack takes place through racketeering which is an organized crime and is targeted towards a few individuals or an organization. The effect of phishing scams can be rapid, resulting in identity theft, the loss of a huge amount of money, reputational damage etc. Organizations can suffer theft of sensitive information which can give away the trade secrets, information about suppliers, research and development results or customer information. Because of this the company may no…

The prevalence of technology in modern societies has further connected people over the past decades. Technologies such as cellphones and the internet have been used for communication and transactions between people. However, the use of technology possess inconspicuous risks. The use of electronic surveillances is not acceptable for the intrusion of personal privacy because of the lack of protection it can give to the personal information of a person. An examination of the literature will prove…

in. The last four remaining digits (serial number) run consecutively from 001 through 9999. If social security numbers are publicly displayed, privacy of personal data suffers. The SSN is also at risk of being copied and used illegally. The identity theft may be carried out for different reasons, such as obtaining unauthorized credit, income tax refunds, and social and healthcare…

Everyday an American becomes victim to identity theft. Although there are multiple ways to illegally acquire personal information, it has become more popular to scam via social media. It may be the convenience of being able to perform scams from anywhere in the world or the ease of running multiple scams at once, but it is clear that today’s scammers have become very clever and creative at finding new ways to gain possession of personal information with the help of social media. From Catfishing,…

Target could have truly prevented this attack from happening. However, due to negligence on the company's behalf, the network upgrade was tabled and the consumers suffered that decision. The Target Corporation failed to be good stewards over the consumer's trust, and causing the consumer's sensitive information to be compromised. In hindsight, had the security systems been the top priority the data breach may have been avoided. The fact that the CEO shunned the decision to have the…