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Identity-theft is the fastest growing crime in America, affecting approximately 900,000 new victims each year. Protect your assets and personal information online with this comprehensive guide.
Hack Proofing Your Identity will provide readers with hands-on instruction for how to secure their personal information on multiple devices. It will include simple measures as well as advanced techniques gleaned from experts in the field who have years of experience with identity theft and fraud. This book will also provide readers with instruction for identifying cyber-crime and the different ways they can report it if it occurs.
Hot Topic. Hack Proofing Your Identity will provide readers with both simple and advanced steps they can take to protect themselves from cyber-crime.
Expert Advice. This book will present security measures gathered from experts in both the federal government and the private sector to help secure your personal information and assets online.
Unique Coverage. Hack Proofing Your Identity will be the only book to include security measure for multiple devices like laptops, PDAs and mobile phones to allow users to protect themselves while taking advantage of the newest ways to access the Internet.
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| Title of Computers eBook: Hack Proofing Your Identity In The Information Age | |
| Release Date: 08-06-2002 | |
| Publisher: Syngress |
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Hack Proofing Your Identity In The Information Age
Chapter One
Identity Theft: Are You At Risk?
Solutions in this chapter:
* Defining Identity Theft
* Understanding What Electronic
* Information Is Private
* Striving for Theft Prevention
* Keeping Private Information Private
[ ] Summary
[ ] Solutions Fast Track
[ ] Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction
The use of a seal, card, or other identification while making a purchase or signing a contract is a custom almost as old as history. As merchants and their customers have begun using the Internet in recent years to conduct business online, they have been challenged to find digital forms of identification that mimic traditional, trusted forms, such as hand-written signatures and photo IDs. Because traditional forms of identification don't work well on the Internet, no universal form of ID has been found to be suitable for companies wanting to conduct business online.
Web site owners, merchants using computers to track purchases, and electronic service providers have each been forced to reach their own, unique solutions for identifying customers using only computers. Many merchants using electronic commerce rely on passwords. Some have embraced electronic identification known as digital certificates. Most attach an account name or number, e-mail address, physical address, telephone number, and other identifying information to their customers as well.
Each company with whom you do business electronically increases the number of identifiers associated with you. These digital forms of identification (like passwo
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