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May 17, 2012 – 4:32 am | Comments Off

 
A local baker wants to warn other businesses about a scam in which someone almost cheated her out of a thousand dollars’ worth of cupcakes.

“I’ve had big orders, but not that big — it’s huge,” Sarah Johnson recalled herself saying when she received an e-mail order for 450 cupcakes.
Johnson works out of her Cobb County home producing “Sarah’s Heavenly Cupcakes.” She was also surprised the …

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InfosecIsland: BYOD – It’s a Personal Matter – When you own something, especially a mobile device, there is a sense of entitlement … http://t.co/Xv48J4YZ

May 17, 2012 – 4:38 am | Comments Off

InfosecIsland: BYOD – It’s a Personal Matter – When you own something, especially a mobile device, there is a sense of entitlement … http://t.co/Xv48J4YZ
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Undercover Investigation in UK Uncovers Trading in Personal Data (12th May 2012)

May 16, 2012 – 1:54 am | Comments Off

An investigation within the UK conducted by the Channel 4 TV station’s Dispatches program alleges that private investigators are paying for access to personal details of individuals held in government databases…….
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ProtectMyID: False: Basic privacy settings often leave personal info visible. Check to ensure your privacy settings are as tight as you want them to be.

May 15, 2012 – 11:41 pm | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: False: Basic privacy settings often leave personal info visible. Check to ensure your privacy settings are as tight as you want them to be.
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Can IT Be Trusted With Personal Devices?

May 15, 2012 – 5:04 pm | Comments Off
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Mobile device management as a path to security is a fundamentally flawed strategy. You must manage the data.

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ProtectMyID: #Truesday: If my #socialnetwork profile is set to private, only my friends can see my personal information. True or False? #privacy

May 15, 2012 – 2:48 pm | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: #Truesday: If my #socialnetwork profile is set to private, only my friends can see my personal information. True or False? #privacy
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Video Sitecom Cloud Security Personal Computer Magazine

May 13, 2012 – 5:45 am | Comments Off

Sitecom heeft samen met PCM de Cloud Security gepresenteerd . Toegelicht wordt hier het voordeel hiervan en hoe zo het internet criminaliteit tegen te gaan. Met dank aan PCM en Sitecom zegt QuickSpot bekijk deze video en heten wij u welkom in de wereld van Cloud Security.

Windows – Remove Username Personal Folder From the Start Menu

May 8, 2012 – 6:36 pm | Comments Off

www.petenetlive.com Windows – Remove Username Personal Folder From the Start Menu

SABRE – Personal Safety Academy

May 8, 2012 – 7:20 am | Comments Off

Event Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 16:51:59 GMTAuthor: Fenton MissouriThis 1-day (10 hour) Instructor Certification Program is designed to train instructor candidates in the methods of teaching effective self-defense and safety awareness utilizing SABRE pepper spray. This course will enhance the instructor’s knowledge in teaching the use and deployment of SABRE pepper sprays. Instructors will learn the essential facts about pepper spray, proper ways to …

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Speaker on Personal Security www.IDTheftSecurity.com

May 5, 2012 – 2:15 am | Comments Off

www.IDTheftSecurity.com Media hits for Identity Theft Expert and Speaker on Personal Security. www.IDTheftSecurity.com

The latest e-scams are getting personal

May 2, 2012 – 9:45 pm | Comments Off

OMG did u hear abt the L8est e-scam???? Ck ur txt.
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ProtectMyID: Unlike fingerprints, which can’t be given to someone else, personal data like your #SSN can be used to take over your #identity. #besafe

May 2, 2012 – 8:40 pm | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: Unlike fingerprints, which can’t be given to someone else, personal data like your #SSN can be used to take over your #identity. #besafe
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The latest e-scam artists targeting Bucks County residents are getting personal

May 2, 2012 – 8:38 pm | Comments Off

OMG did u hear abt the L8est e-scam???? Ck ur txt.
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Personal Finance Daily: Fraud detection technology cuts risks

May 2, 2012 – 8:11 pm | Comments Off

Jennifer Openshaw writes in her column today about how the technology of fraud detection, particularly for bank and credit-card customers, is helping to prevent or stop these kinds of thefts, sometimes even before you know your wallet is missing.
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ProtectMyID: @ITRC survey shows social media profiles expose enough personal info for ID thieves to build false identities. http://t.co/z5E8GTFD #besafe

May 2, 2012 – 6:34 pm | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: @ITRC survey shows social media profiles expose enough personal info for ID thieves to build false identities. http://t.co/z5E8GTFD #besafe
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ProtectMyID: @ITRC survey shows social media profiles expose enough personal info for ID thieves to build false identities. http://t.co/z5E8GTFD #besafe

May 2, 2012 – 6:34 pm | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: @ITRC survey shows social media profiles expose enough personal info for ID thieves to build false identities. http://t.co/z5E8GTFD #besafe
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SC Agencies Taking Steps to Better Protect Your Personal Information After Breach

May 1, 2012 – 11:03 am | Comments Off

SC Agencies Taking Steps to Better Protect Your Personal Information After Breach
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IDTheftOnline: Prevent electronic pickpocketing, identity theft, and payment fraud by breakingblocking the personal information… http://fb.me/VHDCqGdX

May 1, 2012 – 10:18 am | Comments Off

IDTheftOnline: Prevent electronic pickpocketing, identity theft, and payment fraud by breakingblocking the personal information… http://fb.me/VHDCqGdX
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41% of Facebook Users Willing to Serve Up Personal Info to Complete Strangers

May 1, 2012 – 9:54 am | Comments Off
Freddi Staur

Security firm Sophos has proven once again that, despite most of the attention and scorn being focused on companies like Facebook and Google, you are your own worst enemy when it comes to online security. The company ran an experiment in which it sent an invite to 200 randomly selected accounts to befriend one Freddi Staur — an anagram for “ID fraudster.” Of those 200 …

FTC – Pretexting: Your Personal Information Revealed

May 1, 2012 – 5:38 am | Comments Off

When you think of your own personal assets, chances are your home, car, and savings and investments come to mind. But what about your Social Security number (SSN), telephone records and your bank and credit card account numbers? To people known as “pretexters,” that information is a personal asset, too.
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ProtectMyID: Photocopier hard drives retain images of everything copied. Choose where you make photocopies of personal information carefully.

May 1, 2012 – 4:26 am | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: Photocopier hard drives retain images of everything copied. Choose where you make photocopies of personal information carefully.
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ProtectMyID: PMID monitors online sources where compromised personal identifying info is found, traded, sold-helping reduce potential id theft risks.

May 1, 2012 – 4:26 am | Comments Off

ProtectMyID: PMID monitors online sources where compromised personal identifying info is found, traded, sold-helping reduce potential id theft risks.
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Facebook attack – personal information theft

April 28, 2012 – 5:44 pm | Comments Off

This video is a demonstration of an attack exploiting a vulnerability in Facebook. It is a companion video to the blog post at: blog.quaji.com The post describes and discusses the hack. In a nutshell, a Facebook user’s personal is stolen. The only thing he does is view a regular, legitimate forum site.

ID key to local tractor theft case

April 27, 2012 – 2:58 pm | Comments Off

An inability to identify a man who drove a tractor off the lot of Home Works ETC, 515 S. Fourth St., on April 16 has stymied the Beaumont Police Department effort to solve the theft case.
Video surveillance shows a man wearing brown coveralls, a large straw hat and something black wrapped around his face, a police department press release said.
He walked onto the property at …

Three ways identity thieves target your info

April 27, 2012 – 2:55 pm | Comments Off

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Identity theft is on the rise, but did you know ID thieves have three favorite ways to target your information?
Identity theft changed how Restaurant owner Nicole Oprisu at The Kitchenette in Broad Ripple is doing business.
During their busy lunch hour, she talked about how they process customer credit cards now after someone hacked into their system.
“We went to old telephone dial-up processing as …

Interrogating Siri – iPhone 4S Siri “Personal Assistance” Demo

April 27, 2012 – 9:26 am | Comments Off

I think Siri just confirmed the iPhone 4S jailbreak!! twitter.com
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One in 10 secondhand hard drives in U.K. contain personal data

April 27, 2012 – 12:49 am | Comments Off

Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office has discovered that more than one in every 10 secondhand hard drives contains recoverable personal information of the original owner.
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