Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
It appears that consumers are certainly becoming more proactive about protecting themselves from identity theft. But small business owners don't seem to share their concern.
According to a recent survey, small business owners are victims of fraud at a rate of 15 percent more than the general population. In 2010, small ...
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
The way you use your smartphone, and the information you store on it, could be putting you at risk for identity theft.
These days, even a seemingly innocuous smart phone behavior like storing e-mails containing sensitive information or using unsecured Wi-Fi can provide a thief with a wealth of personal information. ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
Part of protecting yourself from identity theft online is creating strong passwords for your multiple online accounts. Many times passwords are simple words, dates or sequential numbers that are used because they're easy to remember. They're also easy to crack.
A good password utilizes numbers, regular characters, upper case characters and ...
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