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: Anne Wallace in: ● July 6, 2011
As we have mentioned on this blog, child identity theft is a growing concern, and on July 12, The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice are hosting a forum on this alarming issue. Experts from a variety of resources including government, business, non-profit, legal service providers, as well as victim advocates will [...]
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Posted by: Jerry Thompson in: ● May 30, 2011
With the close of this month, we all look ahead to the summer of 2011. We also look at June as National Internet Safety Month, a time where we across the country we all need to take a moment to think—really think—about what we (and our kids) are doing online. How safe are we behaving, [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 18, 2011
Continuing this week’s attention to National Small Business Week, IDGuardian has stepped back into its video archives to present a special video replay of Neal O’Farrell and his advice for small businesses and strategies against identity theft, credit fraud, and security breaches. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● October 8, 2010
If used wisely, Facebook can be a great way to stay in touch with family and friends, connect with long-lost acquaintances, and even make new friends and connections. And of course it’s increasingly being used to promote businesses, causes, fan clubs and all kinds of exciting opportunities. You’re probably aware that Facebook is also chock [...]
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Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● September 28, 2010
When I went to college way back in the electronic Dark Ages of the early ‘90s, the Internet was a new phenomenon and my little school in Vermont hadn’t exactly come up to speed. But there was this guy on my hall who was already knee deep in the ‘Net and what we now call [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 10, 2010
You can be sure that any story with the words “kids” and “roulette” in it is not going to end well. If your kids are pretty typical – they’re curious, adventurous, take some risks they shouldn’t (maybe because they don’t see them as risks), and they have a web cam, then you should know about [...]
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 9, 2010
Security researchers recently discovered that more than 40% of the world’s spam is being churned out by just one culprit. The culprit is called the Rustock botnet, and may consist of millions of compromised computers, all press-ganged together to churn out an estimated 46 billion spam emails every single day. What’s more troubling, most of [...]
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● July 12, 2010
Kids are so darn cute. This cuteness can be completely out of control when a camera — be it video or still — comes into play. Whether it is in their infancy when you catch a magic moment, or a few years later when they ham it up for the photo, kids and cameras can [...]
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Posted by: Matt Hines in: ● June 28, 2010
How well is your antivirus software (AV) working today? Hopefully better than mine. Of course, I didn’t pay anything for mine, maybe that’s the problem; maybe not. Either way as I first sat down to write this blog on my work-issued (and far more heavily protected) laptop, my home PC – a nice fresh six-month [...]
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