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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010A top cybersecurity firm recently tested 5 different brands of smart meters for vulnerabilities, and found that they all could be EASILY hacked into, allowing someone to remotely shut down your power, inflate your bills, tell if you’re out-of-town (making you a target for burglary), commit identity theft, or even bring down [...]
Cyberwarfare, part 2
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Tips for organizing your identity theft case
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Accurate and complete records will help you resolve your identity theft case more quickly.
Have a plan when you contact a company. Don’t assume that the person you talk to will give you all the information or help you need.
Prepare a list of questions to ask the representative, as well as [...]
Play a game while learning about identity theft
Friday, April 23rd, 2010How to prove you have been a victim of identity theft
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Identity theft is stealing money and today you need to think of money as data either on paper or in cyberspace. Keep all documents and collect the paper trails in the real world and in the cyber world.
Get and keep all applications or other transaction records related to the theft of your [...]
Medical identity theft startling stats
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Jennifer Leuer from Protect my ID.com worked with Ponemon Institute and found some starling statistics around medical identity theft. I was shocked to discover the average cost to victims is $20,000.00 while the average bank identity theft cost is $5,000. The reason–it goes unnoticed for a long time–on average it takes a [...]
Identity theft and cybercrime statistics in picture graphs
Monday, March 29th, 2010Fraud continues to rise in 2009, with Javelin’s finding show there are more victims than in any period since the survey began in 2003.
The Javelin 2010 Identity Fraud Survey Report provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis in order to help consumers and businesses better understand the effectiveness of methods used for its [...]
Collaborating cyberspace security
Sunday, March 21st, 2010On March 16, 2010, I had the opportunity to spend the day with the Fourth Annual IT Security Entrepreneurs’ Forum (ITSEF IV) — part of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) at Stanford University. The organization was created by Robert Rodriguez, a former secret service agent wanted to increase the collaboration between [...]
Cybercriminals don’t need technical skills just a criminal mind
Monday, March 15th, 2010Hurray for the Spanish security authorities! They captured the Mariposa botnet operators. The Mariposa botnet networked through nearly 13 million computers across 190 countries. It compromised systems from across several Fortune 1000 companies and 40 financial institutions. At the time of his arrest, one of the botnet operators possessed sensitive [...]
2010 Census to begin proceed with caution
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 [...]
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