A CompUSA survey of US college students
* 88% keep on their computer desk tops and laptops the kind of info that could get their identity stolen if that computer was stolen or broken into
* 41% ignorant of the concept of phishing
* 21% had been tempted to give personal private info to web sites where they unsure of the security or of the source of the request for their personal data
* 9% had already responded to phishing e-mails

There was an incident with Stanford’s Axess system, where a student’s
account was cracked, then someone else opened credit in the student’s name,
intercepting that student’s money. That case has been solved.

> Increased cases of identity theft have led the Office of the Inspector
> General at the U.S. Department of Education to establish a Web site,
> [url=http://www.ed.gov/misused,]www.ed.gov/misused,[/url] dedicated to informing students and parents about
> identity theft. Victims of identity theft can contact the Office of the
> Inspector General’s Identity Theft hotline at 1-800-MIS-USED.
> Additionally, the Stanford Residential Computing Security Web site is
> available at [url=http://rescomp.stanford.edu/info/security]http://rescomp.stanford.edu/info/security[/url]

Should students have billing sent home, rather than to a school address
whose mail system may be less secure?
Are cell phones locked up when not being used?
How often do you change passwords, PIN#s?
Do you know how your financial institutions contact you, so you can
recognize a fraudulent contact?
Do you know which institutions are brain dead on security, so you should
avoid doing business with them at all?

[url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/8/10/thievesPhishForStudents]Stanford survey[/url]

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Filed under: Security - @ August 16, 2006 7:26 pm