Protect against identity theft

Nick K.
Clifford, ND     04/06/2010 11:35 PM

Ya wanna know where 80% of identity theft comes from? It's not from online shopping, like most people think. No, in fact it comes from the victims computer having a bunch of spyware/keyloggers on it. How else do people think that the Chinese would know their card numbers? Their computers are infected because they are too dumb to take proper caution when surfing the web. So when they visit a legitimate site like Amazon, or Ebay, they enter their credit card info, which normally is safe, however, these people have a million viruses on their computers which log the keystrokes that they use. The virus will then transmit that info back to the host (the thief), and they will use that to buy whatever the hell they want. Seriously people, it's not that hard to figure out. Take some time to educate yourself about your computer, and quit downloading every dang toolbar you can, those things are just friggen spyware machines.

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Janice G.
04/05/2010 10:45 AM

In David Scott’s words, everyone needs to be a mini-Security Officer in the modern organization today. I think Mr. Scott is right: Most individuals and organizations enjoy Security largely as a matter of luck. Anyone else here reading I.T. WARS? I had to read parts of this book as part of my employee orientation at a new job. The book talks about a whole new culture as being necessary – an eCulture – for a true understanding of security, being that most identity/data breaches are due to simple human errors. It has great chapters on security, as well as risk, content management, project management, acceptable use, various plans and policies, and so on. Just Google IT WARS – check out a couple links down and read the interview with the author David Scott at Boston’s Business Forum. He also blogs and there is a lot of great free info – Google “The Business-Technology Weave”, select about the third link down (it’s hosted at IT Knowledge Exchange). Full title of his book is I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium.

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