Thursday, February 4th, 2010
You've no doubt noticed the many ID theft prevention services and credit monitoring services that have popped up lately. Some have catchy songs alluding to free credit reports that aren't actually free. Others use celebrities and CGI squirrels. But the fact remains that there's been one company who has ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
One of the key elements of stealing someone’s identity is to be able to present proof that you are who you say you are. If the thief can convince the DMV that they are you then getting a license is a snap, which means acquiring loans and credit is even ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
If it wasn’t bad enough that the general public has to be watchful of criminals trying to steal their information and identity, but when the people you trust with your information is the one that steals it from you it hurts even more? I have seen story after store involving ...
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
In late November I wrote a story about immigration identity theft and the effect it’s having. I mentioned one case out of Colorado that involved the tax preparer, Amalia Cerrillo, the owner of Amalia’s Translation and Tax Services. Well it seems that a judge has ordered a halt to the ...
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
With all the hype going around about the Conficker computer worm I thought it might be interesting to talk about technologies and people that can brake into systems and steal. For those who don’t know what Conflicker is here is a short description from wikipedia.
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
LifeLock is having another sweepstakes where one lucky winner and a guest will get a trip to New York City for four days and three nights. Along with $1,000 cash prize the lucky prizewinner will also get to experience the season finale of “The Celebrity Apprentice” that’s being filmed on ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
I’m sure that people are tired of hearing about identity theft. Identity theft horror stories are everywhere and are hard to ignore. This story isn’t necessarily a horror story, but it’s a good example of a business that you should be able to trust with your information but probably shouldn’t.
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
What can make identity theft worse than just loosing some money and gaining some bad credit? When the identity thieves make you the criminal instead of them. I have read a couple identity theft stories, similar to the one, and in my opinion they are the worst kinds of identity ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Most data breach stories are rather boring and includes talk about how companies fail to protect their data. Most companies and organizations have a least one data breach at one time or another. Binghamton University has had many and can’t seem to get their act together. One would assume they ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
1% of all PCs are Infected my ID Theft malware
According to Panda Security, an online virus and malware scanner service, one out of every 100 computers are infected with malware designed to steal your personal information. These malware programs steal information like your bank account login and investment information and ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Experts say that identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in America. This means that it’s growing faster than burglaries or murder or any other crime you can think of. Think of all the protection one has to prevent these kinds of crimes.
If you don’t want someone to ...
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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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Friday, September 5th, 2008
The Countrywide Home Loan Company has become the spotlight for one of the biggest data breaches in history. Over 2 million identities were stolen by two men over the course of two years. An insider in the company was selling the customer profiles, which contained enough information to easily commit ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
In most identity theft incidents, it is almost impossible to fully assess the damage because it is so hard to track. Most victims of identity theft have no idea how their data was compromised, and many incidents are never reported to the authorities. It is only after an identity thief ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
We would assume the legal system itself would be reasonably safe from identity theft, but we are continually reminded that nothing is truly safe from data breaches. The US Ministry of Justice recently reported nine separate data breaches which collectively affect around 45,000 people.
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