After watching the previous video, you might want to know of a good way that you can lock your personal information away from prying eyes. Just like a personal file proof safe in your house, this prevents the inadvertent compromise situation. Someone gets access to your computer and is able to find some file on your computer with personal information, i.e. a tax record, birth certificate, or anything that has your social security number, passwords etc.
My Lockbox is a freeware program that allows you to password protect folders on your computer where you have personal information. It's time we all took alot more care with this data. We can't prevent that data from being accessed on companies we do business with, but you can protect it on your own computer.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Lock Your Personal Folders
Why Not To Use File Sharing P2P software
This one is VERY interesting. If your kids, or you yourself use a file sharing program, here is the reason not to! This morning on the Today Show, they did a piece about the threat of identity theft from using one of these programs. My jaw literally dropped when they revealed how many tax records were assessable in the state of New York alone by searching for Tax Returns New York. Beware people, the threat of ID Theft is growing due to the stress of the economic times we live in. Watch and learn!
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Identity Fraud Survey Shows ID Theft up 22%
Identity theft rose by nearly 25 percent last year in the United States, according to a new report released today. The 2009 Identity Fraud Survey Report by Javelin Strategy & Research shows that the number of identity fraud victims increased 22 percent to 9.9 million people being hit, at a total cost of $48 billion.
According to James Van Dyke, president and founder of Javelin, this is the first year since the report began in 2004 that the numbers have gone up. "The industry was surprised at the whopping size of identity theft when it was first studied in the early part of the millennium, but it was beaten back strongly. But now, with the tough economy, criminals have become more desperate, and identity theft has gone up for the first time since we began tracking it," Van Dyke says.
Read the rest of the story at Bankinfosecurity.com
