When someone works under your name, it can cause lots of headaches and sometimes results in financial loss. One common loss is the time lost in clearing up the employment fraud, and as we know, time is money. Lancasteronline.com reports that when a couple applied for public assistance at a local government office, they discovered Read more…
Tags: employment fraud, fraud resolution agent assistance, McAfee Identity Protection, national identification card, personal identity fraud, proactive identity surveillance, social security number
McAfee Reveals the Top Ten Most Dangerous Places to Leave Your Social Security Number: Universities/Colleges are the Riskiest Research conducted by Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft expert, on behalf of McAfee Cases of identity theft are skyrocketing, and 32% of all ID theft victims had their social security number compromised according to Javelin’s 2010 Identity Fraud Read more…
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In the late 90s and early 2000s, hacking had evolved from “phreaking” (hacking phone systems) to “cracking” (breaking into networks). At the time, hackers hacked for fun, for the challenge, and for fame and popularity within the hacking community. But soon enough, the public began spending more time online, shopping, banking, and managing personal affairs. Read more…
Tags: credit card thefts, data breaches, mcafee identity theft protection, personal information protection, social security number
This story is about a victim of criminal identity theft. The victim is a trucker who discovered that his identity had been stolen when his commercial driver’s license was suspended because the thief who stole his identity had been busted for drinking and driving on four different occasions. Imagine. The consequences of identity theft are often so overwhelming Read more…
Tags: drivers license, job applications, potential employers, social security number
Peer-to-peer file sharing, or P2P, has become enormously popular on college campuses across the country because it allows students to easily exchange music and video files over the Internet. Tens of millions of people use P2P applications such as Limewire, eDonkey, and BearShare to fill their MP3 players and hard drives with all the music Read more…
Tags: Peer to Peer file sharing, Robert Siciliano, sensitive documents, social security number, student loan applications, tax returns
September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month. I helped Uni-Ball conduct a survey of 1,000 college students and 1,000 parents. The survey revealed that while about 74% of parents believe students are at a moderate to high risk for identity theft, and 30% of all identity theft victims are between 18 and 29, only 21% Read more…
Tags: college students, family identity safety, Robert Siciliano, sensitive data, social security number
Consumer Understanding of Identity Theft: The major problem that consumers face today is a fundamental lack of understanding of what identity theft actually is. Most people think of identity theft as when someone uses your credit card without your permission. Fraudulent credit card use is certainly a multibillion dollar problem, but it’s only one small Read more…
Tags: counter identity theft, identity fraud, identity protection, identity theft risk, social security number, stolen cards
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