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]]> Comment on Use Alias Email Addresses Responsibly by John Vickers http://www.soodonims.com/2011/08/19/use-alias-email-addresses-responsibly/comment-page-1/#comment-998 John Vickers Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:44:47 +0000 http://www.soodonims.com/?p=450#comment-998 There is a very good reason why alias email addresses are necessary, and why forum administrators have to accept that they are necessary. Help Net Security recently published a short note on this very point; relevant fragments are given below, as is the URL of the full article. Have you been hacked this month? by Steve Watts - IT security expert, SecurEnvoy - Wednesday, 24 August 2011. I'm assuming the majority of people are sitting smugly reading this thinking ‘of course I haven’t!’ You do everything you’re supposed to do, right? You’ve installed a firewall, you’ve got some anti-virus software, you never follow links in emails or open attachments from someone you don’t know or trust. Well, that’s all very commendable but unfortunately it isn’t you that’s been hacked. It’s your information stored by the companies you trust that’s been compromised. Since the start of this year, globally, there have been 365 data loss incidents involving 126,727, 474 records. According to research by Juniper Research, 90% of organizations have suffered data breaches in one form or another over the past 12 months. Testament to this is the number of household brands that have inadvertently divulged the information of hundreds of individuals:... We conservatively estimate that the average family’s personal information has been breached 10 times since June. What organizations fail to grasp is that, each time your record is breached, organized cyber criminals are piecing together bits of information about you, your habits, and that of your family’s that together creates a complete picture. There will be some that argue - what can be done with an email address? Well, a criminal could spoof you into responding to a phishing email purported to be from the bank you use or the store you shop at. http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1619 Help Net Security is a daily security news site that has been covering the latest computer and network security news since its inception in 1998. http://www.net-security.org/aboutus.php There is a very good reason why alias email addresses are necessary, and why forum administrators have to accept that they are necessary. Help Net Security recently published a short note on this very point; relevant fragments are given below, as is the URL of the full article.

Have you been hacked this month?
by Steve Watts – IT security expert, SecurEnvoy – Wednesday, 24 August 2011.
I’m assuming the majority of people are sitting smugly reading this thinking ‘of course I haven’t!’
You do everything you’re supposed to do, right? You’ve installed a firewall, you’ve got some anti-virus software, you never follow links in emails or open attachments from someone you don’t know or trust. Well, that’s all very commendable but unfortunately it isn’t you that’s been hacked. It’s your information stored by the companies you trust that’s been compromised.
Since the start of this year, globally, there have been 365 data loss incidents involving 126,727, 474 records. According to research by Juniper Research, 90% of organizations have suffered data breaches in one form or another over the past 12 months. Testament to this is the number of household brands that have inadvertently divulged the information of hundreds of individuals:…
We conservatively estimate that the average family’s personal information has been breached 10 times since June.
What organizations fail to grasp is that, each time your record is breached, organized cyber criminals are piecing together bits of information about you, your habits, and that of your family’s that together creates a complete picture.
There will be some that argue – what can be done with an email address? Well, a criminal could spoof you into responding to a phishing email purported to be from the bank you use or the store you shop at.
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1619

Help Net Security is a daily security news site that has been covering the latest computer and network security news since its inception in 1998.
http://www.net-security.org/aboutus.php

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