Phishing Protection: Don’t Be A Victim

Have you been a victim of identity theft, or are you afraid to become one? Maybe it’s because you spend majority of your life online. You shop, bank, watch movies, listen to music, doing most everything online. It is said that 50% of identity theft happens via the internet and it’s done mostly thru phishing [...]

Phishing Scam: What is It?

A well known computer identity theft of today is called phishing or phishing scam, true to hacker approach, phishing means, well, as it sounds like fishing, by baiting individuals to divulge personal information using two baits. The first one would be an e-mail asking you to divulge your personal data in an e-mail reply and [...]

Doing Transactions Online: Threat of Keyloggers

Internet identity theft victimized 2 million adult American within the current 12-month period and among them, 70% makes use of the Internet to transact business with their banks or pay bills. More than 50% say they’ve been targeted by Internet identity theft perpetrators through e-mail that usually installs malwares in the form of keyloggers in [...]

Browser Hijack: Keep It Out of Your System

It is sad to realize that many Americans only think of identity theft protection when it’s too late.  We install firewalls and update our anti-virus software only after we have been infected by malwares and our browser hijack by these malwares. Or monitor our credit transactions only after we lost a significant amount of money [...]

Spear Phishing: Where Thieves Likely Strike

Commercial identity theft can be defined by any of three things. It can involve the identity thief targeting all the employees in an organization or what is known as spear phishing. It can also mean the thief accessing the company’s credit account. The thief targeting a firm’s clients is the third kind of commercial identity [...]