Unthinkable ID thieves: Mom & Dad

Somewhere in the halls of Sahuarita Middle School walks a boy who already is a deadbeat debtor.

He isn't old enough to qualify for credit. But at the house his family was evicted from recently, someone used his name and Social Security number to rack up a $950 unpaid bill with Tucson Electric Power.

The boy's mother - a financially troubled woman with a string of criminal convictions - says she doesn't know how the bill ended up in her son's name.

Experts say it sounds like a case of perhaps the most insidious form of identity theft, in which parents with bad credit hijack their offspring's personal data to obtain credit cards, loans or utility service.

Such crimes, which appear to be on the rise in Tucson, are seldom reported to law enforcement. They often don't come to light until years later, when victims come of age and apply for student loans or car loans.

Too much info on social media aids ID thieves

More than half of adults 45 and older who are on social networks like Facebook could be in danger of becoming victims of identity theft or other crimes because they share too much private information, according to a study released today.

In one example, the study commissioned by a unit of credit reporting services firm Experian found that 14 percent of adults - and 20 percent of those age 60 and over - listed their full home addresses in their social media profiles.

If they then post updates from a trip, that tells thieves "no one is watching your house," said Jennifer Leuer, general manager of Experian's ProtectMyID.com. "You obviously don't want everybody on the Web to be able to see that."

Meet Marko, the 9-year-old systems engineer

Marko Calasan, a 9-year-old from Macedonia, is more than just a kid who's into computers.

At age 6, he got his first systems administrator credential from Microsoft and, last month, he became perhaps the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

"I must say that from the technological point of view, Marko is definitely a wonder child," said Matej Potokar, the general manager of Microsoft Slovenia. Potokar said in an e-mail interview that he first heard about Marko two years ago and was eager to get the chance to meet the young prodigy.

FDA: Cybersecurity for Networked Medical Devices
Containing Off- the-Shelf (OTS) Software

Cybersecurity Vulnerability

A cybersecurity vulnerability exists whenever the software provides the opportunity for unauthorized access to the network or the medical device
Vulnerabilities in cybersecurity may represent a risk to the safe and effective operation
Failure to properly address these vulnerabilities could result in an adverse effect on public health

Ontario's privacy commissioner has ordered the Durham Health Region to make sure computerized health records are "strongly encrypted" to avoid another embarrassing loss of health information.

In December the Durham health authority, which is responsible for a large area east of Toronto, announced it had lost the medical records of thousands people after a nurse misplaced a USB key at Durham region's headquarters in Whitby, Ont.