Protect Your Identity

Facebook Quizes and Identity Theft

Have you ever taken one of those ridiculous and inane quizzes on Facebook that tell you which color you are ("I'm Orange! Now what do I do?"), which Harry Potter character you are (see above), or which superhero your dog resembles?

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It is a good reminder, but I don't intend to hide. Many people live their lives out in the public.

Better to protect your identity.

Monitor the three major streams of identity information: financial, medical, and legal as relate to you and have a repair plan in place for a very reasonable month fee: The best plan available.

Is Identity Theft Decreasing?

Is Identity Theft Decreasing?

Washington Post Blog

I was somewhat relieved when I saw a headline the other day proclaiming that a comprehensive study had shown identity theft was in steady decline. After all, no matter how careful you are about shredding, installing firewalls on your home computer or using different passwords, in the end there's little you can do to stop rings of overseas hackers or the loss of a government or company laptop that happens to have the personal information of millions of people on it.

Alas, the study in question, a telephone survey of 5,000 people by Javelin Strategy & Research, and sponsored by Visa, Wells Fargo and CheckFree, has some potential flaws that undermine some of its major conclusions. READ MORE.

Identity theft remains a major problem.

It is a societal problem until it hits home and then, it is a very personal problem.

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Shocking, but true.

Identity Theft Resources

What's New from Identity Theft Resource Center?

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	New Information Guides

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From the FTC's Identity Theft Site

From the FTC's Identity Theft Site

This website is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. It provides detailed information to help you deter, detect, and defend against identity theft.

On this site, consumers can learn how to avoid identity theft – and learn what to do if their identity is stolen. Businesses can learn how to help their customers deal with identity theft, as well as how to prevent problems in the first place. Law enforcement can get resources and learn how to help victims of identity theft.

Read on to find out more about identity theft and what you can do about it.

What to Do to protect yourself:

From the FTC's Identity Theft Site

From the FTC's Identity Theft Site

This website is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. It provides detailed information to help you deter, detect, and defend against identity theft.

On this site, consumers can learn how to avoid identity theft – and learn what to do if their identity is stolen. Businesses can learn how to help their customers deal with identity theft, as well as how to prevent problems in the first place. Law enforcement can get resources and learn how to help victims of identity theft.

Read on to find out more about identity theft and what you can do about it.

What to Do to protect yourself:

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Security book chapter: The Truth About Identity Theft

Jim Stickley, featured authorThe following is an excerpt from the book The Truth About Identity Theft. In this section of Chapter 11: Social Engineering (.pdf), author Jim Stickley explains how easy it really is to hack a password.

People often ask me how hard it is to hack a password. In reality, it is rare that I ever need to hack someone's password. Though there are numerous ways to gain passwords on a network and hundreds, if not thousands, of tools available to crack encrypted passwords, in the end I have found that it is far easier to simply ask for them. READ MORE

Identity Theft Resources

CA. Gov - Office of Privacy Protection - http://www.privacy.ca.gov

U.S. Department of Justice - http://www.usdoj.gov (search Identity Theft)

Federal Trade Commission - http://www.ftc.gov

California Department of Consumer Affairs: http://www.dca.ca.gov

U.S. Social Security Administration - http://www.socialsecurity.gov

U.S. Government Accounting Office - http://www.postalinspectors.uspis.gov

International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators - http://www.iafci.org (go to link section)

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