Forget credit cards and social security numbers, a new lot of identity thieves will soon come after your web profiles, or says security firm Aladdin in their Annual Threat Report.

Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb writes:
According to Ian Amit, director of research at Aladdin’s Attack Intelligence Research Center, the potential damage for this new type of identity theft will be “devastating, both on the personal level by creating difficulties in employment, ruining social and professional connections, damaging reputations; as well as on a financial level, such as stealing customers, corporate data,”
To test their prediction, his team was able to set up fake online identities which ended up connecting to the real network of friends and acquaintances easily.
Every problem is also a great opportunity. There are a couple of companies out there already that will monitor a lot of social networks and user-generated content sites to catch fake identities. There is a real market out there, and I am just waiting for a M&A announcement by the Bank of America to add this kind of service to their portfolio…
HP Laboratories published some research back in January 2009 on revealing actual interactions among people of massive online social networks. The example of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver its usage and exploding growth is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.
Rich Internet (micro) TV portals with increasing interactivity are emerging. They include social as well as media immersion – more than just content, but a complete platform. The question is what telecoms can offer as a platform provider.
Some Silicon Valley research clarified the question why two tier 1 carrier’s advertisement department and content delivery network department were clashing with their revenues (from ads) and costs (from transport and content management).
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