November 4, 2011 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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As reported by the Daily Record; a New Jersey woman still faces charges this week in a case of first impression in an identity theft indictment. Dana Thornton, 41, is being accused of impersonating her ex-boyfriend, Parsippany Detective Michael Lasalandra, by creating a Facebook page in his likeness. The Facebook account, created in 2009, contained [...]
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Tags: facebook, Identity Theft, social media identity theft
August 25, 2011 | Barry Wise | Brand and Trademark Protection, Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management
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Paul Krugman is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times and writes that his social media identity was stolen on Google+. He writes in the Times: “Well, this is interesting. I hear that the not-so-good people at National Review are attacking me over something I said on my Google+ page. Except, I don’t have [...]
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Tags: google, google plus, Paul Krugman, social media identity theft, The New York Times
July 5, 2011 | Barry Wise | Announcements, Identity Theft, Social Media
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With the launch of the new Google+ Social Network last week there has been a landrush of (mostly techie) people to start trying out the new service. As with anything new and untested, always be wary of your privacy settings on the web, and especially to whom you’re giving your information.
Recently a new site launched called gplus.to – this site has no affiliation with Google, no privacy policy, and basically no information about who owns it or how it uses your information.
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Tags: google, google plus, gplus.to, Intellectual Property, social media identity theft
May 20, 2011 | Barry Wise | Brand and Trademark Protection, Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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In Panama City Florida a local and respected teachers’ identity was used to create a fake Twitter profile which spouted off derogatory comments about autistic students. The teacher works with special needs students and had no idea this was going on until she was informed by officials questioning her and the profile.
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Tags: Florida, Identity Theft, Panama City, Social Media, social media identity theft, teacher, Twitter
February 15, 2011 | Barry Wise | Announcements, Brand and Trademark Protection, Identity Theft, Intellectual Property
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Microsoft released an announcement today that as of March 3rd, 2011, they will no longer be making editorial investigations into “complaints about trademarks used as keywords to trigger ads on Bing & Yahoo! Search in the United States and Canada.” What this basically means is they are allowing anyone to bid on a trademarked term for PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising, even if someone else owns the trademark on that term. They still, however, will investigate text within the ads (note their new “Investigations” policy).
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Tags: brandjacking, brands, Intellectual Property, PPC, trademark, trademark protection
September 15, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Intellectual Property, KnowEm News, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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It was recently reported that the state of Israel purchased the Twitter username @Israel from a private individual named Israel Meléndez for an undisclosed sum, which by some reports may be as much as six figures. You read that right – the Nation of Israel paid for a Twitter username from some guy that runs a porn site in Miami. He gave the prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu his password, and then they handed him a check.
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Tags: brand protection, brandjacking, cybersquatting, israel, Israel Melendez, selling usernames, trademark protection, Twitter
September 13, 2010 | Barry Wise | Brand and Trademark Protection, Domain Names, Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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A recent tweet by Andrew Nystrom of RedBull brought attention to a growing trend we’ve noticed in Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook — that of Typosquatting. Typosquatting is a form of brandjacking/cybersquatting in which someone registers the misspelling of a brand or trademark term in an attempt to capture traffic from a legitimate well-known entity. In cases of social networks, this is done by using the misspelling of a username, such as in Justin Beiber’s case. The real @justinbieber has 5.2 million followers, but a misspelled dupe account of @justinbeiber (the i and e transposed) with zero tweets already has over 16,000 followers.
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Tags: brand protection, brandjacking, cybersquatting, Intellectual Property, Social Media, trademark, Typosquatting
August 24, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Online Reputation Management
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InformationWeek reports SB 1411, which has been approved by the California Senate and the Assembly and now awaits the signature of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, makes it a misdemeanor “to knowingly and without consent credibly impersonate another person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means with the intent to harm, intimidate, threaten or defraud another person.”
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Tags: california, cybersquatting, Identity Theft, Social Media
May 25, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Intellectual Property, Online Reputation Management, Social Media
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What BP has done isn’t funny. The Wall Street Journal reports a Twitter user with an account dubbed BPGlobalPR is posting satirical entries about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and already has more than twice as many followers as BP America’s actual account. I’m sure BP doesn’t think its “satirical” or funny.
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Tags: bp, Identity Theft, satirical account, Social Media, Twitter
April 23, 2010 | Barry Wise | Identity Theft, Social Media
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Identity Theft isn’t just something that impacts your bank account or credit card. Your brand or trademark can be hijacked in social media and on the web as well, and we’ve seen it thousands of times here at KnowEm. Most recently, according to PCWorld, a hacker named Kirllos has offered up for sale 1.5 million Facebook user accounts.
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Tags: brandjacking, facebook, Identity Theft, Intellectual Property, Social Media, stolen usernames
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