Friday, November 7th, 2008
How often do you send personal information over a text message? Some companies have begun to send out informative text messages to their customers through a messaging system. How does the customer know that the information in the text message is actually coming from the company and not from ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
LifeLock and the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association, a non-profit organization, have teamed up to share and educate law enforcement officer on identity theft trends. LifeLock will use this information to act as the voice of identity theft to help educate and give the public the tools to prevent ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
One of the biggest data breaches in the last couple of years was that of the Department of Veteran Affairs. In 2006 a computer was stolen from the residence of a Veterans Affairs (VA) employee. On this computer were the names, Social Security numbers and date of birth of 50,000 ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Many adults are now guarding themselves with identity theft protection programs like LifeLock. Some identity thieves are turning to easier targets: their children. Children are becoming preferred victims because it is easier to expose their identities and harder to discover the theft. Students are especially easy targets because schools often ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Some identity thieves are taking a high tech approach to credit card fraud. They are stealing cards right from ATM machines. Two men were recently arrested in South Florida for utilizing a new technique that can scan and clone any cards that go into an ATM. These skimming machines slip ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Our society is becoming increasingly aware of the ever growing threat of identity theft. It seems that no one is truly safe from identity theft, not even the police. A recent data breach in Columbus Ohio has exposed the personal information of nearly 13,000 retired police officers. These data breaches ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Normally, identity thieves have to do a lot of work to get personal information from their victims. Sometimes all it takes is a small glitch in a computer system to send this information right into the hands of potential identity thieves. The Georgia Blue Cross recently sent the sensitive personal ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Most soldiers are too concerned with their lives to worry about their identities. We can now add identity theft to the long list of dangers affecting military personnel in the Washington State army base of Fort Lewis. A recent data breach has exposed the personal information of around 900 of ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Traditionally, identity thieves tend to use personal information to open up new lines of credit or rack up charges on current credit accounts. One international group of hackers tried a different approach. They hacked into the online database of White Wolf Publishing, a company that sells table top games. After ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
One of the most primitive methods identity thieves use to get personal information is to trick their victims into just giving it to them. Most phishing scams are fairly transparent, and can easily be seen through by discerning targets. For example, an African prince once offered me 15 million dollars ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
If you are an organ donor, you may have unknowingly donated more than just your organs. Your very identity might have been exposed to identity theft. Many states now have a program where you can sign up as an organ donor when you apply for a driver’s license. In an ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
There are a lot of identity theft protection services available now, some better than others. LifeLock's services and guarantee are the best.
What sets LifeLock above the rest is that they actually prevent identity theft. They'll put fraud alerts on your credit records. And then, every 90 days when the fraud ...
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