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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"identity theft"”.
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The Phenomenon of Identity Theft
… is a descriptive study of the prevalence of Identity Theft in the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 2004 to 2009 and the procedures used by the Kentucky State Police to deal with this crime. The data for this study is a combination of violation code use retrieved from Kentucky's Open Portal …
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Analysis of digital evidence in identity theft investigations
Identity Theft could be currently considered as a significant problem in the modern internet driven era. This type of computer crime can be achieved in a number of different ways; various statistical figures suggest it is on the increase. It intimidates individual privacy and self assurance, while …
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Identity Theft: HOAs and the Cultivation of Exceptional Whiteness
<p>The basketball court had been locked and chained with a no trespassing sign posted on the gate. In the distance was a police officer who I later discovered was a private security guard. According to my development’s newsletter, the shutdown was due to supposed gang activity seen at and around …
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Trust Broker: A Defense Against Identity Theft From Online Transactions
The proliferation of online services over the years has encouraged more and more people to participate in Internet activities. Many web sites request personal and sensitive information needed to deliver the desired service. Unfortunately, it is difficult to distinguish the sites that can be trusted …
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Developing a Practical Intervention to Prevent Identity Theft: A Behavioral-Science Field Study
Cashiers' identification-checking behaviors were observed at two grocery stores with the aim to actively involve cashiers in decreasing credit-card fraud. After baseline observations, cashiers at one store received a participative goal-setting and feedback intervention, whereby they collaboratively …
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An evaluation of inter-organisational identity theft knowledge sharing practice in the UK retail sector
… experience in order to help address and mitigate identity theft. Multiple case studies were employed to interpret the triangulated data collected. ShoppingCo, PaymentCo, TeleCo, and NetworkingCo participated in this investigation. Semi structured interviews were scheduled and conducted in …
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The prevention of internal identity theft-related crimes: a case study research of the UK online retail companies.
… security threats of 2013 by Forbes, Internal Identity Theft-Related Crimes (IIDTRC) leave countless victims in their wake, including online retail companies and consumers. With the rapid growth in the use of credit and debit cards in e-commerce, the online retail has been a key target for the …
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The effect of electronic devices self-efficacy, electronic devices usage and information security awareness on identity-theft anxiety level
<p>Identity-theft means stealing someone’s personal information and using it without his or her permission. Each year, millions of Americans are becoming the victims of identitytheft, and this is one of the seriously growing and widespread issues in the U.S. This study examines the effect of …
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Essays on digital and physical channels and mitigation mechanisms of identity frauds
This dissertation includes two essays on identity theft. we developed a modified routine activity theory (RAT) in the first essay to explain the channels of identity frauds occurrence. This study aims to understand the antecedents of identity theft victimization at the individual level, which is …
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E- Crime under Section 86 of the Electronic Communications Act
… Conducts known as phishing, advance fee fraud, identity theft and cyber stalking will be discussed.
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Biometric authentication systems for secured e-transactions in Saudi Arabia. An empirical investigation of the factors affecting users' acceptance of fingerprint authentication systems to improve online security for e-commerce and e-government websites in Saudi Arabia.
… secure e-commerce systems. Fraud via the web, identity theft, and phishing are raising concerns for users and financial organisations. In addition, current authentication methods, like passwords, have many problems (e.g. some users write them down, they forget them, or they make them easy to …
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Prototype Digital Forensics Repository
… has led to a new league of a crime involving identity theft, stealing trade secrets, malicious virus attacks, hacking of DVD players, etc. The law enforcement community which has been trained to deal with traditional form of crime, is now being trained in a new realm of Digital Forensics. …
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3D Image Acquisition System for Facial Recognition
… existence. It is clear from the rising rates of identity theft and misappropriation of services that current methods employed to identify individuals is ineffectual. The most common way people identify other individuals is via recognition of the subjects face. The speed and accuracy with which …
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A Comprehensive structural model of factors influencing customers' intention to use biometrics in the hospitality industry
… result in massive losses for hoteliers from identity theft and related frauds. Another security issue could be categorized as property security, such as protecting customers from thefts or terrorists. Customers who are aware of these risks from either direct or indirect experience may become …
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Privacy-Preserving Application of Blockchain Technologies
… and procedures in an under-regulated technology. Identity theft and data breaches are already impacting users on the internet since enterprises are collecting, processing, and storing more consumers’ data in their databases, making them valuable and interesting targets for adversaries and criminal …
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Digital Citizenship in 21st Century Education
… go online face cyberbullying, predatory contact, identity theft and other consequences that may affect their future including the permanence of their digital footprint. Using Howard Gardner and Common Sense Media’s end of unit assessment on digital citizenship and Dr. Mike Ribble’s Nine Elements …
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Design of a multifactor authentication system for automated teller machines.
… machines (ATMs) are vulnerable to fraud and identity theft. Implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) can significantly improve the security of ATM transactions. ATM debit and credit cards are susceptible to theft and card cloning making them a conduit for malicious actors to defraud bank …
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A digital identity management system
… change the way they do business and manage their identity information. The coming of the online services has however made most Internet users vulnerable to identity fraud and theft. This has resulted in a subsequent increase in the number of reported cases of identity theft and fraud, which is on …
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User-centred and context-aware identity management in mobile ad-hoc networks
… outlined above also raises serious concerns over Identity Management (IM) due to a dramatic increase in identity theft. The problem is even greater in service-oriented architectures, where partial identities are sprinkled across many services and users have no control over such identities. In this …
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Unmasking the imposters: towards improving the generalisation of deep learning methods for face presentation attack detection.
Identity theft has had a detrimental impact on the reliability of face recognition, which has been extensively employed in security applications. The most prevalent are presentation attacks. By using a photo, video, or mask of an authorized user, attackers can bypass face recognition systems. Fake …
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