Theft of 'e-mail' in the company of marketing 'online' Epsilon

The provider of marketing services, Epsilon has been a theft of millions of e-mail addresses, which has forced banks and companies in the U.S. and UK to alert customers of possible attacks 'online'. Several U.S. companies warned earlier this week to its customers who may be the target of attempted fraud on the 'e-mail' after stealing millions of addresses.

Among the companies affected are Hilton HHonours, American Express, BestBuy, Borders, Capital One, Citbank, Disney, The Home Shopping Network, JP Morgan Chase, Marriott Rewards, Ritz Carlton, TiVo, U.S. Bank, Verizon and Visa.
"The information obtained is limited to names and addresses of 'e-mail' from some of our credit card customers," reported this week Citigroup customers, who warned that such information may be used for attacks of 'phishing', which involves the mass sending fake emails to obtain confidential bank details.

Theft e mails

It also warned its customers of this possibility the bank JPMorgan Chase, which reminded his customers never enter their bank details by email and to be cautious with any 'e-mail' to request personal information, especially banking.
Even the British retailer Marks and Spencer has sent a warning to its customers in which they are warned of potential problems with email scams.

This series of warnings to users, there were a few days after the company Epsilon, which manages advertising on many U.S. firms email, informing them that someone had accessed their database on 30 March and was named of consumers and their email addresses.

Stole e mails in Epsilon company

Epsilon said the "unauthorized entry into the email system of Epsilon" has affected only 2% of its customers and this percentage is only a subset of customers that Epsilon provides email services.

From the security company Trend Micro also warned about the risk that the 'spear-phishing (phishing highly selective) involved.
According to Rik Ferguson, Director of Security Research and Communications, EMEA at Trend Micro, one wonders if the 'cyber' have been able to browse through the database and extract only that information which have been considered more valuable.

English spend half their time to technology

Between television, radio, cell phones, internet and other technological means of delivery, the British spend almost half their time to use telecommunications equipment, said the British telecoms regulator, OFCOM.
In its annual survey of the telecommunications market, OFCOM first calculated the average time devoted to the British media and other vectors of technology and stands at just over 7 hours per day per person, or about 45% of the average time of a day without counting the hours to sleep.
More specifically, the routine use of traditional media (television and radio) is maintained, supported by the development of new technology such as HDTV.

Britain and the technology

Britons last year spent three hours and 45 minutes per day in front of the cathode ray tube, over a quarter of them are equipped with televisions "HD Ready", meaning that they can receive programs broadcast in high definition.

In parallel, the use of new technology vectors exploded. The British sent on average four times more text messages on cell phones in 2004 and almost a quarter of the time they spend online is used in social networks like Facebook.
In two years, multifunction phones doubled to 12.8 million units, and those who use their devices to view Internet last year rose 50% to 13.5 million.The gap between the generations in the use of new technologies also tends to decrease: more than half of those over 55 years has access to broadband internet.
Finally, the British, especially youth, are becoming more "multifaceted", ie, for example, surf the Internet while watching television and talking on their phones.