For a while now I have been hammering on the need to protect
your personal information. This posting by blogger Brian Krebs shows the market
for account information, passwords, etc. Those who collect account credentials
can make some good money on your personal information.
Krebs' bottom line,
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If you can, place a credit freeze on your
information with the three major credit agencies.
·
Credit monitoring can help you recover from
identity theft.
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Don’t re-use any of your password across
multiple accounts or web sites. Use a secure password manager create strong
passwords and to store them.
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Where you can, use two-factor authentication to
gain access to your accounts. This makes it much more difficult to ID thieves
to gain access to your accounts.
This is a good article to read. It has good explanations of ID
theft concepts and how they can help.
Krebs On Security:
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