Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● July 8, 2010
ID Guardian presents a special video posting today: an in-depth look at the Identity Theft Assistance Center through the experiences of an identity theft victim. Through Intersections’ exclusive partnership with ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center, we have been able to help hundreds of companies manage breaches affecting millions of people and assist thousands more [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● June 14, 2010
We know by now that identity thieves are reaching far beyond credit card shopping sprees. A major risk for homeowners nowadays is mortgage fraud, which has been a huge contributor to this nation’s housing crisis. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that 67,190 mortgage fraud suspicious activity reports (SARs) were filed in 2009 with [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● June 7, 2010
According to the 2010 Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Survey Report, names and home addresses continue to top the list of critical personal data stolen by identity thieves. April through July has historically been the busiest time of year for home buying and selling. During these months, neighborhoods across the country are filled with [...]
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● April 27, 2010
Everyone needs to pay very close attention to Facebook’s recent announcement that Facebook applications and external third-party websites will be allowed to use and store users’ information unless you revoke permission. Since the default setting is now to allow Facebook to share your name, profile picture, gender, and connections,; external sites like Yelp and Pandora can use your information to customize their functionality [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 31, 2010
People blog. That may sound like an obvious statement, but it is worth repeating. From TheFutureBuzz blog, the statistics from the beginning of 2009 were as follows: 133,000,000 blogs were indexed by Technorati (a search engine specific to searching blogs) since 2002 346,000,000 people globally read blogs (from comScore March 2008) An average of 900,000 [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 22, 2010
Hollywood, as we all know, loves to tap the vein of “trendy” for everything it’s worth. This is nothing new if you look back on the history of cinema. Silent films gave way to Talkies. Black and white eventually yielded to color. Cinemascope gave moviegoers a wider perspective on things. Horror movies like The Tingler [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● March 3, 2010
If you are like us here at IDGuardian, you may be working on building yourself a Social Media presence. It could be for community outreach, a ways and means of increasing your business, or simply for fun. With any new technology, though, comes understanding; and sadly Social Media is becoming the proverbial “blinking 12:00 a.m.” [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● February 3, 2010
Yesterday started with a stir across the popular social network, Twitter, as Mashable.com (with the help of blogger Andrew Girdwood) put its users on high alert: Numerous Twitter users are pointing out that Twitter forced them to change their passwords out of the blue. According to blogger Andrew Girdwood, these users have received an e-mail [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 28, 2009
It is hard to believe that IDGuardian launched only four months ago (September 11, 2009 as a matter of fact); and in such a short time, we have brought you sound advice, different perspectives, and forward-thinking opinions on the subjects of Identity Theft, Credit Security, and Online Safety. If you are new to IDGuardian, thank [...]
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● December 14, 2009
If you are on Facebook (as are over 300 million people in the world) then you are used to receiving a variety of notifications of different things happening within your network, such as photo tagging, status comments, and friend requests. Nothing unusual about that, unless you receive something like this… …on an account other than [...]
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