Ask your friends to describe you and each one will probably say something different — about the way you live, what’s important to you, your family, your interests — because your identity is about more than just your name. It’s something uniquely yours; something you’ve worked hard to create for yourself. And we want to help you keep it that way. Here in our Resource Center, you’ll find information that can help you better understand what identity theft is, tips to help you protect yourself from becoming a victim of it, and more — so you can stay uniquely you.
Recently the Federal Trade Commission held a day-long forum called “Senior Identity Theft — A Problem in This Day and Age.” Although several recent national studies — such as the FTC’s own 2011 Consumer Fraud Survey — have found that seniors represent only a small percentage of identity theft victims [...]
First, let me give you some numbers. In the U.S. there are currently about 129 million smartphones in use, of which about 38 percent are iPhones (Android platform phones significantly outnumber iPhones here). But that still means some 50 million iPhones, give or take, are in use here; and another recent study [...]
One of the annual studies I most anticipate has just come out, and its findings are both informative and frightening. The 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) was compiled by the Verizon RISK team with cooperation from 19 other organizations including Homeland Security and the Secret Service in the U.S., [...]
According to information from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), spring and summer are the most popular seasons for Americans to purchase new homes and relocate. With May being National Moving Month, thousands of people throughout the country will be packing up their belongings and taking up residence at a [...]
If you are like so many parents these days, frantically trying to keep up with the new technology and the social media that has become part of your kids’ lives, I would like to recommend a new book that might be of help. Raising Digital Families for Dummies by Amy [...]
With summer fast approaching, many people across the country are looking forward to afternoons on the beach, barbecues that last late into the evening and outdoor concerts featuring their favorite musical artists. Festivals will be held all summer long nationwide in venues big or small. Whether you are spending a [...]
Here’s word to the wise for you, and more importantly for your children: don’t automatically believe what you see or received on Twitter. This is true even if it is from your best friend, or more exactly from the twitter account of your best friend. You may remember the incident [...]
Enter almost any coffee shop, fast food restaurant or library, walk through any airport, hotel lobby or many other public spaces and you will find people using free Wi-Fi to connect their notebook computers, tablets or smartphones to the Internet. After school, many of these establishments are packed with connected [...]
There are roughly 3 million nurses working across the country, with more than 60 percent of them finding employment in the busy and often frantic halls of hospitals. Because of the high volume of people on site at these institutions — not just patients, but visitors and other staff on [...]