Facebook was selected as it is the second most visited site in the world according to Alexa,3 and also, a treasure trove for attackers interested in identity theft, attacking corporations and a host of other threats.
He added that the program represented a new breed of "identity theft" attacks that try to steal information instead of damaging files or computers.
I'm told that a fair number of the "phishing" and identity theft attacks are now coming from these 'bots that are turning on the systems on which they are based.
However, authentication-tokens individually are also vulnerable to identity theft attacks since these cards can be lost or stolen and the adversary can use them for their own malicious purposes.
The proposed secure Cloud framework ensures user Privacy via limited disclosure principle by using two separate channels for the transmission of sensitive user credentials that minimizes the impact of information disclosure and ascertain protection against identity theft attacks.
Data breaches, identity theft, cyber-attack, and financial fraud are all on the rise.
For at least one person that concern was associated with the disclosure of identifiers (including name and address) and other demographic data rather than clinical data: "my identity theft and attacking bank accounts and that sort of thing, that is my concern, not my health data".
Once that information is no longer private, verification checks become easier to fake, leaving people at risk of identity theft and phishing attacks where they are tricked into revealing financial information.
Similarly, if a Cloud IDMS follows Identity Federation principle through Hierarchical Storage, then it will limit Unauthorized disclosure of confidential data (A7), Elevation of privileges (A9), Forgery (A10), Identity theft (A12) and Impersonation attack (A13), as the information will be stored in fragments across multiple servers.
Kleinrock also talked about the dark side of the Internet: commercial exploitation, denial of service attacks, identity theft, etc. "What should we have done?" he asked.
However, this mechanism is considered to be the least secure authentication mechanism for the dynamic Cloud environment that is susceptible to replay attack and identity theft since user passwords/PIN can easily be stolen.
