Archive for the ‘Identity Theft Risk’ Category
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Social media has really caught on in the last few years. Starting with MySpace, the ability to share, talk and friend other people on the internet has allowed users to branch out and have more fun online. Now services like Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and Foursquare continue to allow ...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
A few years ago retailers realized that not all people like to get up at 3 in the morning (or simply not sleep the day before) and go stand in line to buy products in their stores for discounted prices. Some genius realized that people would like to get ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
The shopping day of the year is quickly approaching. Everywhere you look people are researching deals, checking credit card balances and getting in shape for the traditional line standing and sprint event we call Black Friday.
Even if you're not into extreme sport events like pre-dawn Black Friday shopping, there's ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.
To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Parents tell their kids "you can grow up to be whatever you want to be" all the time. Maybe it's time to rethink that or, at the very least, add a disclaimer. "You can grow up to be whatever you want to be*... *as long as it involves being ...
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
Unless the name following your Doctor title is House, Who, Doom, Pepper or Zhivago, there might be a chance your confidential records were one of 800,000 records contained on a laptop that was recently stolen.
The laptop, which was owned by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield employee in Chicago, ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Number 1,374 to have your identity stolen - buying textbooks online.
Every semester millions of college attendees go online and seek out the best deals on necessary textbooks for their upcoming classes. Many know the deals are to be found online instead of the stores with large online textbook retailers ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
There's a new buzz phrase that everyone seems to be talking about lately. It's called augmented reality. What augmented reality (or AR for short) means is that normal physical reality is being used as a foundation with computer augmented reality being place on top of it. The most typical ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Computer users have been using P2P (or "peer to peer") network file sharing ever since Napster took the country by storm 1999. While Napster is still around (doing legitimate business) it's sites like BitTorrent, Kazaa and Limewire that have gotten the most attention lately. The more popular these sites become, ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Social media sites have become the hunting grounds for identity thieves and Facebook, with over 250 million users, is the largest target for most cyber criminals. As most users know Facebook has recently been hit with constant phishing attempts and worms designed to steal user's passwords. They range from official ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Most people have said, at some point, that government only exists to make their lives harder. While normally rhetoric, in this case, it may be true.
Congress recently passed legislation allowing the last four digits of your social security number to be published on public documents. Though this might not seem ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
A Palm Beach County school district cop has been charged with the identity theft of 20 teachers and students. Jonathan E. Kelly, a school district police office for the past six years (and Delray Beach officer from 1997-2000), was using school district computers to gain access to the 20 ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
While almost no one is truly safe from identity theft, there are some factors that contribute to your risk for being the victim of identity theft. There are many ways we expose ourselves that we don’t really have a choice about. Even simply being a student, having a driver’s license, ...
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