Posted by: Jerry Thompson in: ● June 9, 2010
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Jerry Thompson, co-founder of White [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #010 — Social Media Safety Tips [ 0:01 ] Download
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Posted by: Anne Wallace in: ● May 17, 2010
This is National Police Week, an opportunity to acknowledge the sacrifice law enforcement officers and their families make on our behalf. The financial services companies that belong to ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center, are especially grateful. We know it’s a difficult and dangerous job. Our members work with law enforcement everyday to keep you [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● May 10, 2010
Teenage hacking is nothing new. Jonathan James was the first juvenile sent to prison for hacking, and was just 16 years old when he was sentenced to six months in prison in 2000 after he hacked into the computers of NASA’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In that same year, a 15-year-old Canadian hacker using the [...]
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Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● April 14, 2010
With graduation season closing in, we have presented commentary on the graduate’s Social Media and Credit Footprints, long-lasting impressions that can make an impact on a person’s reputation particularly in the working world. If you are graduating, or know someone who is about to take that walk to accept academic accolades, extend to them this [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 8, 2010
Administrators’ Note: With the Income Tax deadline closing in and today being “Tax Tip Thursday” we asked Neal O’Farrell to return to his earlier posting concerning Tax Scams. Enjoy this revamped edition of “The Taxman Cometh (and Identity Thieves are not far behind)” complete with our own tips in staying safe before and after the [...]
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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 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: Matt Hines in: ● March 1, 2010
Banking and financial services providers may continue to feel the biggest pinch in the wallet based on the continued proliferation of the worldwide electronic identity theft epidemic, but the people who are most commonly seeing their personas and credit histories hijacked are at the other end of the spectrum. When Javelin Strategy & Research releases [...]
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Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● February 22, 2010
The following special blog post is the conclusion of a note from Intersections VP, of Information Security, Tim Rohrbaugh. The second day of briefings was honestly a blur. I couldn’t help but focus on the ancillary details that each presenter offered. Each presenter – I managed to attend only one out of three tracks – [...]
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Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● February 17, 2010
Welcome to the IDGuardian Podcast. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in a variety of ways: Through the blog via the media player found in this blogpost Through a manual download by clicking on the “Download” link By subscribing through iTunes This episode features Neal O’Farrell, a nationally recognized [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #007 — Concerns with Small Businesses Download
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