Underpants On- Identity Theft Commercial

This is a humorous CitiBank commercial about Identity Theft. But, even though it is humorous, if you were the ID Theft victim you would not find it so funny.

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New PowerPoint flaw used in attacks

Attacks from another front!. ComputerWorld Help Desk reported yesterday that "Attackers have found another hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Office products. On Thursday, Symantec Corp. reported that it has discovered a targeted attack that takes advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's PowerPoint software."

The attack uses an e-mail that contains "a PowerPoint attachment that [installs] two pieces of malicious code when opened; a Trojan horse program called Trojan.PPDDeopper.B and a backdoor program called Backdoor.Bifrose.E.

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Phishing scam uses PayPal secure servers

An article in ComputerWorld Security on June 16th 2006, discusses a cross-site scripting flaw on the PayPal site that has opened up a phishing hole.

"A cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal Web site allows a new phishing attack to masquerade as a genuine PayPal log-in page with a valid security certificate..."

If you have a PayPal account then you need to read this article so that you don't accidently get caught in the phishing hole.

read the full article here

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Welcome to Identity Theft Defense

The realization that identity theft was a real problem was brought to my attention when the son of a close friend went to purchase his first car. Upon applying for his car loan he was told that he had a credit problem and his loan request was turned down. This was a shock to him because as far as he knew his credit record should have been fine.

Upon further checking, he unfortunately discovered that he was a victim of identity theft. Someone using his name and personal information had transacted financial dealings in another nearby state and left a mountain of unpaid bills. He soon found that correcting the record was a major hassle. The lesson he learned was that it is better to prevent identity theft then to try and correct the record later. So with that mind, I present this information to you so that hopefully you will not become another identity theft victim.