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...that includes “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Blonde on Blonde” and “Blood On The Tracks,” the acknowledged long-time Classics, along with 2001’s “Love and Theft,” the recent Classic. The songs (like those on “L&T”) are more artfully and cerebrally constructed now than they were back when song after song seemed to come cascading out of nowhere to take a place forever in the consciousness of those lucky to have...
...This is huge," says Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse [privacyrights.org], a nonprofit consumer advocacy group based in San Diego. "It affects almost everyone who has come into contact with UCLA, and puts them at risk for identity theft." A university representative told TIME.com that the compromised data stretches back as far as 12 to 15 years, so the hack attack could affect a significant number of people beyond those presently at the university, including those who attended UCLA or worked there in the 1990s, and possibly even those who simply applied for admission or financial aid. Givens...
...launched its own investigation of the incident, but tracking down those responsible will be a challenge. In 2005, 8.9 million Americans suffered from some type of identity theft, according to a study done by Javelin Strategy & Research for the Better Business Bureau, and few of those cases are likely to be prosecuted. Many hackers work from remote locations overseas and assiduously cover their digital tracks, and Davis says that signs thus far suggest it was not perpetrated by someone on campus. The fact that UCLA didn't discover the hack until more than a year after it began demonstrates...
BioPassword's best customers so far are banks and credit unions, which are under federal mandate to adopt stronger authentication measures to protect online customers against identity theft and other fraud. To access account information, online banking generally requires a password with a maximum of 10 character points. Biometric IDs have more than 80 distinct data points...
Consumers know by now they are at risk of identity theft, of "phishing" e-mail attacks and of other scams designed to get them to cough up their account information (and then, too often, the contents of that account). Fake heists show that customers aren't the only weak link in the chain. "We have hacked into every single online banking application that we've tested, except one," says Stickley. So even if you follow all the rules--never respond to an e-mail purporting to be from a bank, shred every piece of paper containing personal information, only return...