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A group of leading financial services, information technology and ecommerce companies and organizations are joining together to fight online identity theft. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), a trade association representing U.S. information technology companies, will serve as Secretariat for the coalition. The Coalition on Online Identity Theft will work to address four primary areas, public education, technology and self-help appraoches, documenting fraud trends, and working with government. Founding coalition members include: Amazon.com, Business Software Alliance, eBay, Information Technology Association of America, McAfee Security, Microsoft, RSA Security, TechNet, Verisign, Visa U.S.A., WholeSecurity, and Zone Labs. eBay and its PayPal subsidiary are frequent targets of spoof email attacks. http://www.itaa.org/news/pr/PressRelease.cfm?ReleaseID=1062528130 |
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