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Datamation
Business Reaches the "Tipping Point" for Email Authentication
Ray Everett-Church at Datamation reports that we have "reached the tipping point for the adoption of email authentication techniques", according to a study released last month by a leading online trust organization. In their most recent industry-wide survey, the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA) found that adoption of email and domain-level authentication techniques has reached the 50 percent mark, including a majority of Fortune 500 financial services firms and companies with consumer-facing brands. AOTA has issued a call for all consumer-facing e-commerce and online financial services sites to adopt one or more forms of outbound email authentication for their top-level corporate domain within the next six months.
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US Postal Service
Check Fraud On the Rise -- National Consumer Protection Week March 2-8
The U.S. Postal Service is asking consumers to be informed and use common sense in an attempt to fight growing fraud during National Consumer Protection Week March 2-8. Sarah A. "Sally" Florio, manager of consumer affairs for the Massachusetts Postal District, said the Postal Service theme this year is: Don't Fall for a Fake Check Scam. "All of them involve receipt of a check which looks genuine and will be accepted for cashing by most banks. The scammers convince the victim, that for one reason or another, all or part of the check needs to be immediately wired out of the United States. If the victim takes the bait and wires the money away, he or she will be on the hook to repay that money to the bank when the check is later found to be counterfeit," she said.
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National Notary Association
Protecting the Electronic Notary Journal from Tampering
As eNotarization becomes more common, Notaries and state officials are debating the best methods for electronic recordkeeping, including whether Notaries should keep both paper and electronic journals and how to protect an electronic one from possible tampering, the National Notary Association reports. "An electronic journal must be protected against tampering and unauthorized access. The information kept in a Notary's journal is vital as potential evidence to track fraud and to protect the Notary from accusations of negligence." An electronic journal must be protected from unauthorized access and alteration to ensure the integrity of the Notary’s records. Similarly, if a Notary must make backup files of electronic journal entries, those backups must be protected against unauthorized access or copying to protect the sensitive information in the journal.
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