ID theft

According to new stats from Javelin Strategy & Research the number of victims of ID theft has declined by over a quarter in the United States last year. However, individual victims lost more money on average than ever before.

Javelin Strategy & Research published the results of the annual survey of consumer fraud which showed that total annual reported fraud was down to $37 billion in 2010 from $56 billion in 2009, but the average out-of-pocket loss soared to $631 from $387, over 60% increase.

 It became known about new scam targeting tax-payers. Recently the users started receiving messages allegedly sent by the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. The scammers say that all the tax payments made by the customer through EFTPS were rejected. 

British researchers launched a study to learn how many Brits have been affected by cyberstalking. Cyberstalking includes everything starting from having your ID stolen or your reputation damaged online, to being tracked by other on social networking sites.

The Electronic Communication Harassment Observation (Echo) survey was commissioned by Network for Surviving Stalking to uncover the true figures.

According to the results from a new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Experian's ProtectMyID.com it is users themselves often to blame for the private data theft as long as they are doing little to protect their personal information on social networks. The study showed that 80% of the polled express concern over security on the social media websites but still half of these users do nothing to wrestle fraud.

Tuesday, the European Commission unveiled more details concerning its five year security plan. Thereby, the EC detailed how it plans to get the Stockholm Programme to enhance security enacted into law by 2014.