Safety 
Protecting Yourself While on Vacation
Spring is here and for many that means gearing up for a bit of rest and relaxation with a spring break vacation or, at the very least, planning a fun-filled trip in the summer months to come. However, the planning shouldn’t stop at selecting your dream destination and accommodations. Unfortunately, identity thieves are everywhere, and [...]
Continue Reading »Creating Ultra Secure & Memorable Passwords
Creating ultra secure passwords that can be easily remembered isn’t as hard as you may think. You probably find yourself mixing up characters and numbers and capitalizations to create words that are unique. Many websites force you to add these numbers and special characters as a tactic to keep your account from being hacked. This [...]
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FBI Shuts Down Global Network of Cyber Criminals
The FBI won a major victory against cyber crime recently when a U.S. judge issued a warrant allowing them to seize a number of computers inside the U.S. that served as control centers for an international botnet ring dubbed Coreflood which had been previously used to commit millions of dollars worth of fraudulent bank wires. [...]
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Top Ten Red Flags for Online Scams or Frauds
Online scams, known as phishing, are one way criminals exploit people over the Internet. Think of phishing like its homonym: to go fishing, you cast a wide net and scoop up whatever is unlucky enough to get caught. Likewise, phishers send out thousands of scam e-mails to unsuspecting Internet users until one eventually bites. Identity [...]
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