Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● August 29, 2011
Whether it is this week or next, a new school year is about to begin. Your child, regardless of the grade, now faces a who new year of challenges, both academic and emotional. While parents tend to focus more on the obstacles at hand — time for homework, time for extra-cxurricular activities, what your child [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 28, 2011
You never have to look far for crazy and sometimes disturbing stories about how people we live amongst, from neighbors to family members, can use our identities to mess with our lives. Take the case of the editor of a local magazine in Spokane, Washington who was recently charged with identity theft and cyber stalking. [...]
Posted by: Megan Howard in: ● July 18, 2011
My son, Ace, is 12, and he wants to be on Facebook. I told him “No” because the regulations of Facebook state that you have to be at least 13 years old to have an account. Ace protested that his friends all have Facebook accounts and they aren’t 13. I told him, “The fact these [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 10, 2010
Facebook is now so chock full of threats and risks, it’s quickly becoming the Wild West of the Internet. Whether it’s click fraud or “like” fraud, spam or infected “friends,” Facebook can be a scary kind of wonderland if you’re not prepared. But some of these threats are far more sinister than just the spam-and-scam [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 20, 2010
A couple of months ago I started helping an eighty-year-old woman who lost nearly $200,000 to a couple of identity thieves who turned out to be her kids. She lives in one of California’s largest cities (1 million+ residents) and was worried that her case might simply fall through the cracks and leave her helpless. [...]
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Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● October 26, 2009
Imagine this scenario: You’re driving down the road and you see someone behaving erratically, either bearing down on you too aggressively or perhaps operating under the influence. Instead of wondering what you should or can do, you pull out your GPS-enabled smartphone and call up an application designed specifically to inform the police of such [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 20, 2010
A couple of months ago I started helping an eighty-year-old woman who lost nearly $200,000 to a couple of identity thieves who turned out to be her kids. She lives in one of California’s largest cities (1 million+ residents) and was worried that her case might simply fall through the cracks and leave her helpless. [...]