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Identity Theft Blog

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Total Identity Protection

A total identity protection requires an understating of identity protection limitations as well as balanced measures to address all identity theft risks.

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Validated Authorization

Validated authorization along with reduced levels of identity obesity is the best combination for low cost identity theft and fraud prevention.

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Managing Linkedin Connections

Many professionals use Linkedin for managing their professional networks, however, managing Linkedin connections should not be taken lightly if solid relationships are desired.

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Phishing Scams

When you get urgent email messages from your bank asking you to take immediate actions, you need to validate the authenticity of the sender and carefully deal with phishing scams.

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Public Information

Many of our personal information can become public information due to our careless identity management practices.

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Certified Identity Protection Advisor ™

Become a Certified Identity Protection Advisor ™ (CIPA). Learn about the exam and certification process.

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Employing Ex Hackers

Employing ex hackers to help identify computer security vulnerabilities is a smart idea as they are highly skilled, but such actions must be carefully managed.

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Disgruntled Employee

A disgruntled employee is a business threat and risk that should be taken seriously, especially during massive business changes.

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Identity Management Institute

Identity Management Institute is established to redefine the identity management field, help professionals connect to one another, increase identity risk awareness and help solve identity challenges.

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Prank Internet Messages

Prank internet messages are on the rise as our use of the social networking sites increases.

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Card Verification Code (CVC)

Not only a credit card verification code doesn’t improve card security, but it can facilitate credit card fraud.

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Identity Reset

Identity reset is an available and last option to resolve severe identity theft and fraud cases.

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Stimulus Fraud

Due to the recession and the government efforts to turn the economy around, economy stimulus fraud will hit families in more than one ways.

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Identity Theft Lawsuits

I've recently been asked what the future holds for companies and consumers from an identity theft risk standpoint. My answer is more identity theft lawsuits.

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The 50 Best Safety and Security Blogs

This identity theft website has once again been named one of the top professional blogs on the Internet. You can also find other great blogs on the list. This site is the #7 on the list.

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IdentityMate Consulting

IdentityMate is an identity risk management firm providing solutions to both consumers and companies.

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Privacy or Security

Some people still lack the knowledge about the privacy or security roles. This article might shed some light on their differences and similarities.

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Tax Filer Identity Theft Risks

File your taxes very carefully and consider these tax filer identity theft related risks.

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Identity Fraud Affidavit

An identity fraud affidavit is a document that helps identity theft victims document the facts related to their identity fraud before contacting the police or the affected companies.

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Dispute Identity Fraud

You must effectively dispute identity fraud charges and accounts if you want to make sure you are not held responsible for the fraud and protect your credit report and its information.

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Organize Tax Documents

We need a complete list of tax documents for filing our taxes correctly. To ensure the completeness of our documents, we need to be very paper organized.

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Kaiser loses personal information

Kaiser Permanente has notified 29,500 of its Northern California employees that a security breach has led to the release of their personal information, including social security numbers.

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Red Flags Rules

The Red Flags rules are the set of requirements that financial institutions and creditors must follow to implement the necessary controls to prevent, detect and respond to identity theft.

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Security Breach at Monster.com

Monster reported on January 23, 2009 that their database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data. Monster stated the information accessed does not include resumes. Monster stated they do not generally collect – and the accessed information does not include - sensitive data such as social security numbers or personal financial data.

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Identity Hostage

With a downward economy, taking an identity hostage to commit a quick cash fraud is on the rise today and will most likely increase with the widely used biometric access management systems.

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Poor Identity Management

The purpose of this article is to discuss poor identity management practices on the part of business management and consumers which lead to identity theft, fraud, and privacy violations.

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2008 Security Incidents

It was recently reported that the 2008 security incidents were on the rise compared to 2007 and there are very good reasons why. Let's explore the causes for these incidents.

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Identity Theft News, Analysis And Commentaries

Become informed and read the latest identity theft news, commentaries and analysis.

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Fraud Alert Benefits

With the continued abuse of consumer laws, fraud alert benefits start to diminish and lose their desired purpose and effectiveness.

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Policies and Procedures

Policies and procedures are major tools to reduce an organization's risks and as such must be carefully developed for high risk areas of any organization.

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Identity Safeguard

Companies which must collect and manage customer private information as part of their business operations must incorporate and monitor the identity safeguard controls.

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Preventing Identity Theft

Our efforts for preventing identity theft can be the most cost effective strategy for reducing the risks of identity theft.

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Career Beacon

When we consider pursuing a career, our decisions must be based on a career beacon that guides us based on our true values, desires and talents.

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Computer Privacy

We must seriously think about our computer privacy as we increasingly continue to use our computers in public places.

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TJ Maxx Identity Theft Case

The computer intrusion case inflicted upon TJ Maxx continues to be one of the largest and most complex identity theft cases in recent history.

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