Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft
Informit.com has a really great article about protecting yourself from identity theft. Here are some tips from the article: clean up your wallet and remove your social security card as well as any...
View ArticleSecurely Erasing A Hard Drive
Before you sell, donate, or throw out that old PC, make sure you securely erase the hard drive. With identity theft on the rise, your PC is a treasure trove of personal information about you,...
View ArticleWi-Fi Security and Your Home Network
Personal Wi-Fi security is once again in the news, and two articles about it have just been published. In the first, Fortune magazine writer David Kirkpatrick is shocked to discover someone browsing...
View Article200,000 Ameritrade Customers Affected By Loss of Data Tape
Online investment brokerage Ameritrade has started informing more than 200,000 clients that their information may have fallen into the wrong hands due to the loss of a backup tape. As a precaution...
View ArticleYou Are Asking For Identity Theft By Posting Your Resume Online
The World Privacy Forum is warning job seekers about posting their personal information and résumés on Internet job sites. Criminals are using this type of information to commit identity theft and...
View ArticleCaller ID Spoofing Services Proliferating
A number of services for faking Caller ID information have sprung up over the past few months. These services allow your phone call to appear to be coming from any number you desire. Because many large...
View ArticleBackup Tapes Declared Major IT Security Risk
It turns out that most large corporations, including major financial institutions, do not encrypt data stored on backup tapes sent to third parties for storage. Tapes containing sensitive customer...
View ArticleTime Warner Loses Personal Information Of 600,000 People
Time Warner has said that it lost data tapes containing personal information (including Social Security numbers) on 600,000 current and former employees plus their dependents and beneficiaries, as well...
View ArticleAlmost 90% of All PCs Are Infected With Spyware
According to a report issued by security software maker Webroot, 88% of home PCs and 87% of corporate PCs have at least one piece of spyware. The report also estimates that pop-up spyware generates up...
View ArticlePDF Documents Can Contain Hidden Sensitive Data
We all knew that Microsoft Word documents can contain information that was edited out, but it now appears that Adobe PDF documents have a similar problem. The recent situation with a document about the...
View ArticleNew People Search Engines Have Many Concerned
Wired.com has taken a look at ZabaSearch and interviewed their top executives. ZabaSearch is a new free search engine that lets you locate people and get information about them. The service uses public...
View ArticleMicrosoft Developing Windows OneCare Service
Microsoft is getting ready to release a beta of its Windows OneCare service, which combines firewall, anti-spyware, anti-virus, backup and restore, file repair, hard drive clean up, defragmentation,...
View ArticleCitigroup Loses Personal Information of 3.9 Million Customers
Citigroup has said that it lost a computer tape containing the personal information, including social security numbers, of 3.9 million customers of its CitiFinancial subsidiary. According to company...
View ArticleInformation on 40 Million Credit Cards Stolen from Payment Processor
According to news sources, a hacker infiltrated the computers of CardSystems Solutions Inc., a third-party payment processor, and may have stolen up to 40 million credit card numbers. However, personal...
View ArticleIndian Call Centers Implicated in ID Theft Crime Wave
An investigation by the UK newspaper The Sun has revealed that call center workers in India have been regularly selling bank customer account information to criminals engaged in ID theft. Companies...
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