With two weeks of summer remaining, our attentions begin to turn to what is coming after the extended Labor Day weekend. There is the weather turning to cooler (and after our summer here, welcomed) temperatures. For sports fans it’s The World Series in baseball, while football fans (thankfully) look forward to the beginning of the [...]
With a new school year about to start and identity theft against children on the rise, we have brought out from our archives a few choice articles concerning minors and keeping their personal data safe. It may seem that assuring your child’s personally identifying information (PII) is easy to keep secure. Perhaps you have their [...]
It’s a refrain that the Apple-loving hordes of Macanistas have been hearing from cyber-security experts for more than a decade: when the sheer number of people using the platform reaches a certain critical mass, more attacks will inevitably arrive. Recent evidence of this, including a scheme aimed at selling fake anti-virus software to Apple users, [...]
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, [...]
With spring break behind us and summer vacation not far away, many families across America are beginning to think about where they’re going on vacation, how long they’re going to stay, and of course, how they’re going pay for it. But if some of these holiday makers are not careful, or just plain unlucky, their [...]
I’ve written many times on this blog about the particular vulnerability of the elderly to identity theft, and of the importance of doing everything we can to protect this vulnerable group. Every day I come across heartbreaking stories of seniors and the elderly being fleeced by friends and strangers alike. But unlike other victims, the [...]
You’ve probably seen one or many of those ads in your local newspaper over the last few years – a local credit union or bank, maybe in partnership with your local Better Business Bureau, plans to hold a free event in a local parking lot where residents and businesses can have their sensitive documents shredded [...]
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 [...]
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