Announcements
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010With the U.S. Census process beginning, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has advice so people can avoid becoming a victim of fraud or identity theft. U.S. Census workers have begun verifying the addresses of every household across the country. Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the U.S. and will [...]
Chinese government penetrates American and other cyber networks
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010It is now a known fact China is aggressively developing cyberwarfare.
Latest Report shows, China is conducting the most sophisticated cyberspying.
One example, in April of ‘09 there were attacks into a U.S. defense contractor’s network that resulted in stolen data about the design of the F-35 “Lightning II” fighter system and its electronics systems.
Keystroke logs of [...]
Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator “czar” Howard Schmidt
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in the Bush’s years, will be Obama’s new cybersecurity coordinator.
Before he joined the Bush White House, he worked as chief security officer at Microsoft. He then became vice president and chief information security officer at eBay. He served in the Air Force from 1967 to 1983 in various [...]
Education and awareness are major tools to protect against cyber crime
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009From January to December of 2008, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) website received 275,284 complaint submissions. This is a 33% increase compared to 2007. These complaints were composed of many different fraud types such as auction fraud, non-delivery, and credit/debit card fraud as well as non-fraudulent complaints such as computer intrusions, spam/unsolicited e-mail, and [...]
Tips for working with your bank, if you’re an identity theft victim
Saturday, May 16th, 2009In 2006, my bank provided an identity thief posing as me, debit card approval through an unauthorized phone number. Within a few days, the thief wiped out my checking account, stealing $8,000.00 before I realized what happened. For six months, the identity thief continued to victimize me. I lost $22,000.00, before I managed to catch [...]
A huge movement to get protected against identity theft.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008One of the most heavily advertised services these days is credit monitoring. You can’t turn on the radio or TV without hearing those commercials that lead you to think that all you’ve gotta do is watch your credit, and you’ll be ok. But that’s simply not true. Credit monitoring is not identity protection. Please [...]
The Fastest Growing Crime
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Did you know 80,000 people become victims of identity theft everyday? Did you know it has been the fastest growing crime for 8 years now? Did you know very little is being done about it and if you are a victim you will be on your own spending hours, months, years cleaning up the mess?
I’m [...]
GMA (Good Morning America) - airing on Friday, December 7th, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007Watch for my story on GMA coming up in a week on ABC from 7AM to 9PM. It will be one of their longer segments. The correspondent, Mary Fulginiti, asked the right questions when interviewing me. Plus, she was so sweet and fun to hang around. The crew that worked on the story were also [...]
Glamour Magazine — December 2007 issue
Friday, August 31st, 2007Look for Karen Lodrick’s story (that’s me) in Glamour magazine. They should have an interesting angle to my story. I can’t wait to see. I’ll be in their December 2007 issue due to come out mid-November.
Meritorious Service Award, on July 13th
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007The best part of this experience by far has been this past Friday night. I was honored with a Meritorious Certificate from the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police), California Federal Lodge 21, in recognition of my meritorious service. It was a wonderful ceremony shared with an intimate group of friends and police officers from the [...]
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