Facebook Privacy: Your Personal Info
The New York Times recently published an article that discusses the severe changes Facebook has made to privacy settings. This is the second post on these changes and each post will give you details on how to manage these new settings so that you can gradually accumulate your Facebook Privacy.
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Detection-Fraud: 15 Signs You’re a Victim of Identity Theft!
Detection: Fraud & Identity Theft. Most cases of identity theft are discovered by the victim, which reinforces the importance of monitoring your various accounts for suspicious behavior. John Sileo, Identity Theft Expert, discusses a few of the most common warning signs suggesting that you might be a victim of identity theft or data breach.
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Electronic Information Privacy – Securing Your Job: Part II
Electronic Information Privacy is quickly becoming a key job performance criteria. Is your organization poised to lose cash to data breach?
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Electronic Information Privacy – Securing Your Job: Part I
Electronic Information Privacy is quickly becoming a key job performance criteria. Is your organization poised to lose cash to data breach?
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Discover and Recover Quickly from Identity Theft in 2010
Since you can't protect yourself 100% from Identity theft, make sure that you Monitor the Signs! Heading into a new year people make many resolutions that they may or make not stick with, but protecting your Identity should always be a top priority. John Sileo, Identity Theft Expert gives you 3 effective tips to help you discover and recover quickly...
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Facebook Privacy Settings Update
CNN discusses recent changes to Facebook Privacy.
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Protect Yourself Against Mail Fraud
8% of all known identity theft is committed by mail fraud and the misuse can last for up to 175 days. America's leading Identity Theft Expert gives you tips on how to protect your mail against Identity Theft and reduce your chances of becoming a victim.
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Google Dashboard Calms Privacy Critics
Google introduced the Google Dashboard on November 5th to help calm privacy critics.
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Fraud Report: SMiShing Identity Theft
Fraud Report: There is a new wave of fraud, called SMiShing that uses Text Messaging to lure you to divulge private data... Identity Theft Expert John Sileo shows you how to stop it.
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Uncovering Business Identity Theft
Small-businesses and organizations are increasingly becoming targets of Identity Theft. This is a serious threat, but it mostly flies under the radar simply because companies are embarrassed to discuss. Businesses and their owners must come forward to help uncover business identity theft so there will be more laws in place to deter criminals.
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Employee Background Checks
At an identity theft training for human resource managers, identity theft expert John Sileo explained that employee background checks are an easy way to lower the risk of insider theft and the resulting data breach. Here's what you need to know about background screening...
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Biometric Identity Theft: Stolen Fingerprints
According to identity theft expert John Sileo, Biometric Identification has its drawbacks, including more destructive types of identity theft.
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The Fear of Honesty
We've gone soft; we fear honesty. I think we even fear being honest with people more than we fear people being honest with us. Honesty has become synonymous with ugly confrontation, rather than just being, well, honesty.
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Cell Phone Tapping Solutions
Thanks to cell phone tapping software, your jealous spouse, nosy parent or dishonest competitor can track everything you say and text.
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Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Still Lives
"Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin" teaches us two things: 1. identity theft is still easy enough to produce that it in turn produces massive repeat offenders and 2. The Secret Service doesn't know how to prevent social engineering. Identity Theft Expert John Sileo.
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Traveling Safety: Identity Theft Takes a Trip
Identity theft speaker John Sileo on: Traveling Safety has become a study of its own ever since the advent of identity theft. Your biggest concern may no longer be physical in nature (pickpockets, hotel theft, muggings); the value of the personal identity you carry as you travel is worth far more than the cash in your wallet. Take Traveling Safety...
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Data Breach Security: TJX is Our Fault!
Data Breach Security Alert: TJX lost somewhere between 40 and 90 million customer records, and there is a good chance yours was one of them if you shop at T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods or A.J. Wright. And it's our fault! Why?
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Laptop Anti-Theft: 7 Tips for Travelers
My point? In the world of workplace identity theft and corporate data breach, laptop computers are the biggest broken window. Not only do notebooks account for a disproportionate amount of data theft, but training the organization to properly protect mobile computers has a radiant effect on all other types of identity protection. Good habits in one area breed good habits...
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Privacy Leadership: How CEOs Enable Data Breach
Technology is not the root cause of identity theft, data breach or cyber crime. We are. Too often, technology is our scapegoat, providing a convenient excuse to sit apathetically in our corner offices, unwilling to put our money where our profits are. Unwilling, in this case, to even gaze over at the enormous profit-sucking sound that is mass data theft....
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An Identity Theft Lesson for Christmas Retailers (and shoppers)!
I just returned from a Kohl's store where I was picking up a gift card for our annual Christmas Eve gift card swap with my wife's family. Instead of giving everyone presents and going to all that work, we simply each buy a gift card for $10 that we think others would like to receive, and then we do a...
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