Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Social Security Fraud - Tue Jan 24, 2012


NYSEG AND RG&E Warn of Customer Security Breach
13WHAM-TV
There have been no cases of fraud, but customers are urged to take steps to protect their identity and credit information. The data involved include customer Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and in some cases, bank account account numbers.
Tears of SI 'Ponzi' prey
New York Post
Now 82, the widow explained how she lost her husband more than three decades ago and hoped to provide a steady stream of income to supplement her Social Security checks. Her husband's premature death forced Migliore to scrimp and work for many years ...

TASCET's Health ICONN(TM) Forces Necessary Shift in the Fight Against Fraud
MarketWatch (press release)
Enables HIPAA-covered entities to exceed compliance regulations by providing consistent, reliable identification of patients without using publicly available identifiers like a Social Security number, date of birth or driver's license.
Republican contenders battle for elderly vote
Financial Times
Aside from the spat over Medicare fraud, Mr Gingrich and Mr Romney will have to make a delicate choice on whether to be cautious – or aggressive – in seeking to reform Medicare and Social Security, the government pension plan, in an effort to reduce ...
Fraud Prevention Starts with E-mail
BankInfoSecurity.com
"BITS has been working on e-mail security and e-mail authentication for years," says Kennedy, who oversees e-mail security, malware, social media and cloud-computing risks for BITS, the technology policy division of The Financial Services Roundtable.

Cyber criminals launch underground search engine
Sydney Morning Herald
In the coming weeks, he said, the site will include new features that index other types of criminal wares, including US Social Security numbers and proxies — addresses of hacked PCs that paying clients can use as a relay to anonymise their online ...

For banks, more data means less fraud – in theory
TechCentral
Moreover, credit card fraud appears to be on the rise. These are the views of Colin Hill, senior solutions manager for financial crimes and risk management at analytics company SAS. Hill says in light of social media and an increasingly connected ...



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