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Online Identity Theft – 10 Steps to Shop Safely This Holiday Season

December 5, 2009

With Black Friday behind us and Christmas just around the corner many are tempted to use the computer to begin their holiday shopping. With big named companies tempting consumers with ‘lower than average’ pricing to be found only on their website, it seems like now would be a good time to shop online.
Be careful though. [...]

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Identity Thieves Thwart Online Sales

November 23, 2009

If you think the American consumer is hurting from the effects of identity theft, think for a second about what it’s doing to the other victims: American businesses. Javelin Research estimates that online retailers lost $21 billion in potential sales because identity theft victims are now afraid to shop online.
If you’re looking to keep your [...]

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Identity Thieves Love File Sharing – Watch Your Teen

November 11, 2009

Ahh … file sharing. It’s how you get all the free music and movies you want, if you don’t mind the FBI or the MPAA knocking on your door every once in a while. Although file sharing has lost much of its luster due to lawsuits, viruses and other negative things associated with it, it [...]

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Identity Threat Score – A New Service from TrustedID

October 29, 2009

TrustedID identity theft protection service just introduced a new service called Identity Threat Score, which is included in its package of services at no extra charge. While we are all at risk for identity theft, this service is designed to help users know exactly what their risk profile is, and what they can do about [...]

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Be Aware of Crimeware

October 16, 2009

Just when I thought I knew everything about identity theft, I was introduced to a new term: Crimeware. Crimeware is software that’s sole purpose is to help identity thieves steal information for financial or political purposes. It’s different from spyware or the run of the mill virus that is used either to track activity for [...]

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How Secure is Your Medical Data?

October 2, 2009

There has been a lot of emphasis lately on nationalizing health records so that a person can go to any doctor in the country and he or she can just pull them up on the computer. Sure, this sounds like a good idea in theory, but it could also go horribly wrong. Consider what recently [...]

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Recession Breeds Identity Theft – Are You Ready?

September 24, 2009

By this time most every American has heard the phrases “touch economic times” and “economic downturn” to ad nauseaum. What some people not have heard about is how the recession can breed identity theft. It’s a sad but true fact that as more people are out of work more tend to turn to crime in [...]

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LifeLock’s New Identity Theft Protection Service

September 3, 2009

Over the next few weeks LifeLock will be transitioning to their new identity theft protection system. The new service will replace fraud alerts and work together with LifeLocks other services including eRecon, TrueAddress and WalletLock. Though LifeLock is touting this as a change for the better, and indeed it may be, it is clear [...]

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Heartland Hackers – Largest ID Theft Case In History Sees Perpetrators Indicted

August 26, 2009

You may have already heard about the August 18 indictment of Albert Gonzales and accomplices, regarding the theft of over 130 million debit and credit card numbers, making it the biggest ID theft case prosecuted in the history of the crime. Gonzales, a former government informant, on the subject of credit card fraud nonetheless, used [...]

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LifeLock Partners with Symantec to Offer Dual Protection to Americans

August 18, 2009

LifeLock and Symantec, makers of the popular Norton Internet Securty Suite, joined forces today to help protect consumers from identity theft both offline and online.  The first step of this partnership sees LifeLock’s identity theft protection service packaged at a 10% discount (first 30 days free) within Norton retail box sets at stores across the [...]

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