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• Identity Protection Recommendations Aim to Optimize Security
  (Beeper Article, 10/27/05)
   
• IPI Survey Results are in:  Fix Assessment Work Begins
  (Beeper Article, 06/09/05)
   
• Campus Departments Encouraged to Respond to IPI Survey
  (Beeper Article, 03/31/05)
   
• Identity Protection Initiative to Make Campus More Secure
  (Beeper Article, 1/05/05)
   

• No.1 Source of Identity Theft
  http://channels.netscape.com/ns/pf/package.jsp?name+fte/idtheft/idtheft
  The most frequently cited sources of identity theft:
  • Lost or stolen wallet:  29 percent
  • Fraud that occurs during an in-store or telephone transaction:  12.9 percent
  • Corrupt employees:  9 percent
  • Stolen mail:  8 percent
  • Spyware on the computer:  5 percent
  • Sifting through garbage:  2.6 percent
  • Computer viruses:  2.2 percent
  • "Phishing" through fraudulent email:  1.7 percent

• The Security Principle of Least Privilege
  http://hissa.nist.gov/rbac/paper/rbac1.html

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June 02, 2006