Several weeks ago my years of free credit monitoring (courtesy of a number of high profile data breaches wherein my personal information may have been exposed) finally expired. So I decided it was time to shop for Identity Theft Protection services. My search led me to ProtectMyId.com – A part of Experian who seemed to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fail’
Experian Identity Theft Protection = FAIL
Posted: March 25, 2011 in general, professional, securityTags: Experian, fail, Identity Theft Protection, ProtectMyId.com
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What we have here is a failure to authenticate
Posted: July 27, 2010 in general, professional, securityTags: authentication, fail, State of Colorado
Friends are coming, friends are going Ain’t got no password, just friend or foe Maybee there is a fight When nothing else to do From Friday Evening by Unit Lost So there I was, enjoying my summer vacation, blissfully ignoring Security for All blogging duties and generally just having a swell time doing pretty much [...]
Simple things are the hardest
Posted: July 18, 2009 in general, securityTags: banking, fail, technology
My eldest son decided that he’d consolidate all of his banking with a single institution. Probably got some swell interest rates or maybe even a toaster for doing it. Whatever the incentive, he did it. As you might expect this involved moving money from one place to another, albeit electronically. So far so good, everything [...]
Law School network FAIL
Posted: May 19, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: email, fail, password
So the other day my future daughter-in-law has this bizarre incident with her email account at the University of Maryland at Baltimore (Go Terps!) School of Law. Seems that she got one of those “time to change your password” messages, so like any tech savvy person who has been indoctrinated (and browbeat) by me she chooses a [...]
