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Identity theft
About: Identity theft is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2284 publications have been published within this topic receiving 31700 citations.
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01 Jan 2012
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24 Oct 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a peer identity verification system that reduces the risk of identity theft in case of a data breach, which does not require a vendor to maintain a database of sensitive customer related data.
Abstract: A system of peer identity verification that reduces the risk of identity theft in case of a data breach. The system does not require a vendor to maintain a database of sensitive customer related data. Cryptographic keys are used. The system creates a one-time encryption keypair. The public and private keys of each user are saved securely on each user's device. While the public key for each user is stored remote from each user's device (such as in a cloud), the private key for a given user is not stored anywhere other than securely on that user's device. Thereafter, a user (i.e., the main user) requests another user to act as their trusted peer to be added to their trust cluster. If that other user accepts the request, the main user's private key is encrypted with that other user's public key and this encrypted data gets stored remotely, such as in a cloud.
21 Sep 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, privacy enhancing technologies enabling privacy-preserving communication and data sharing are investigated in the context of an mHealth solution in order to improve the privacy and security aspects of those systems.
Abstract: The increasing usage of mobile devices within the healthcare domain and the social sector requires a closer look on privacy and security aspects of those systems. Major data breaches have been made public in recent years, which resulted in privacy issues for unaware users, ranging from loss of control over their data, to identity theft cases, up to discrimination because of political, religious or sexual orientation. To this aim, privacy enhancing technologies enabling privacy-preserving communication and data sharing are investigated in the context of an mHealth solution.
01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: This study sought to give an explanation of what phishing is all about towards educating internet users on its dangers and finds ways of combating phishing attacks and increases the trust of consumers of Registration portals and other areas.
Abstract: The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution has had impacts in almost every area of human endeavor. From business, industry, institutions, government to not-for-profit organizations, ICT has simplified registration processes such as payment, course registration, examination registration, writing examination online, checking results in a real-time processing mode. However, ICT has also brought unintended consequences such as criminal activities, Phishing, spamming, credit card frauds, ATM frauds, identity theft and other related cybercrimes. Phishing is a growing problem that causes severe consequences of both financial loss and down drift of internet security trust. Despite the fact that many anti-phishing solutions are developed and adopted to the industry, the phishing problem is not mitigated as we are witnessing an ever growing number of phishing attacks. This study sought to give an explanation of what phishing is all about towards educating internet users on its dangers. It also finds ways of combating phishing attacks and increases the trust of consumers of Registration portals and other areas.