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updated on 01 January 2006
Identity theft
Note: basic approach to protection against identity theft has not changed since 2003.
Lets try to find out what usual information stored on your hard drive
could be used to help thief to pretend to be you (or your company). For
example only my name, address, birth day, and account number was all what
major north European bank asked before selling my shares (I asked them
to sell). Do you have similar data stored on your PC?
Just think what were you asked by your superannuation fund when you moved
to another address.Can this information be found on your hard drive? Do
you have your date of birth in your PC records? Account numbers in MS
Money? This information would be enough for an identity thief to become
you somewhere out there. It is happenning dayly. Someone steels
person's identofying information and uses stolen identity in a major fraud.
Do you know that there are some places on the Internet
where family trees information are available online. Those records contain
details such as parents names. Does your bank use your mother maiden name to check your identity to give you access to your financial information?
18 June 2003
Some companies have started providing insurance against Identity Theft.
This is very nice, but their policies should be read very carefully. Would
it protect credit rating damaged by thieves? What about removal of criminal
records ? What about damage to your business reputation as result of thieves
activities ? Read more about it here.
BTW Australian government put up good brochure here. It is in PDF format.
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More here.
13 January 2006
No big virus out breaks for long time.
3 January 2006
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