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• Employers: Tread lightly in social media

  You know the drill. When you you are looking for a new job, you spend hours preparing your resume, getting all the details just right, proofreading the final product, and printing out copies or e-mailing them to prospective employers. But employers these... Posted Jan 17 2012, 10:51 AM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: job postings, social media, Facebook, employee, employers, Twitter

• Teach your child about protecting personal information

  Your child may be getting ready to start college this fall, and you may be in the thick of it when it comes to applying for financial aid. Your child may even be applying for student loans. But what happens when your child applies for a loan and finds... Posted Jul 12 2011, 10:50 AM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: social media, Social Security number, Facebook, teenagers, teens, personal information, Twitter

• Social network phishing is up ... way up

  The warnings about phishing attacks on social networking sites come so frequently, there’s probably a tendency to just tune them out. Well, listen to this: Phishing attacks on social networking sites are up more than 240%. According to a new report from... Posted Jun 29 2009, 06:40 PM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: social networking, Facebook, MarkMonitor, phishing, Twitter, Tanette Johnson-Elie

• ID theft threats: Microsoft phishing attempt and Twitter invitations

  Security experts have identified two new spams designed to infect recipients’ computers with malware. WARNING NO. 1: Trend Micro just reported that there’s an email purporting to provide users with a “critical update” fro Microsoft Outlook and Outlook... Posted Jun 23 2009, 04:16 PM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, ID theft, phishing, Twitter, Symantec

• Twittering ID Theft

  Want a glimpse into the world of identity theft? Check out these tweets posted within the last 24 hours on Twitter: Should make terrorism easier, imho (in my humble opinion) - the biometrics are woeful, and identity theft becomes easier with ID exposure... Posted Apr 28 2009, 01:06 PM by IdentityTheft with | with no comments Filed under: ID theft, identity theft, identity thieves, Twitter