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Parenting for the Digital Native: Part Three — Securing Android Tech
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 26, 2011
In this final installment of Parenting for the Digital Native, we conclude this series by looking at the other popular platform on the market for mobile devices — Android. While Apple has caught a fair amount of criticism over the controls and demands put upon developers, the Android operating system offers an alternative for app [...]
The Last Battlefield: Personal Privacy in Home Gaming
Posted by: Matt Sarrel in: ● December 21, 2011
This holiday, the video game market is hoping for gamers of all ages to be asking for epic adventures and action under the tree, releasing a barrage of high-adrenaline, visually stunning games just in time for Christmas. One such offering from Electronic Arts (EA) is the first-person-shooter (FPS) combat simulator Battlefield 3. Battlefield 3 sold [...]
Top 5 Things You Can Do To Protect Yourself When Shopping For the Holidays
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 6, 2011
Black Friday has come and gone, leaving in its wake record numbers, a hint of optimism on the stock market, and at least one story concerning overenthusiastic shoppers. Just because Black Friday 2011 is done, though, does not mean that holiday shopping has concluded. With a mere eighteen days remaining (and while that sounds like [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Beware of “Hotel Transaction Error” Scam
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 12, 2011
As vacationers across the country hit the roads for end-of-the-summer getaways, scammers as usual, are not very far behind. Scams and identity theft in the hotel and hospitality industry are nothing new, in part because scammers love to target places where there are plenty of people who may be too busy, too distracted, or moving [...]
ALERT: Facebook Scam targeting “Bieber Fever”
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● July 1, 2011
About an hour ago, this appeared in my Facebook News Feed. Here are a few things to note about how this is revealed as a clickjacking scam: This is a supposed video tweet, but note under the link the main “home” for this URL is heading back to LinkedIn.com. An [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Scareware King Makes $100 Million
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 22, 2011
I’m sure you’ve heard of scareware by now — fake anti-virus software that warns you of fake malware on your computer in order to trick you into paying real money to get rid of it. Like almost every cybercrime and cybercon in circulation, crooks invest considerable time and money into scams like this because they [...]
Small Businesses Face Threats Beyond an Erratic Economy
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 16, 2011
To bring attention to this week being National Small Business Week, I have put together this blogpost concerning a recent study from Javelin Strategy & Research. This report takes a long, hard look at the impact of identity theft on small businesses; and the news isn’t encouraging. The Javelin study of more than 5,000 small [...]
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