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Now you can know what Big Brother knows about you and get access to the same dirt everyone from your boss, landlord, insurance agent, to your favorite casino has on you. Here is a comprehenisve list of websites and phone numbers for most of the “specialty” consumer reports, like your employment, rental, and check writing history. Be sure to check them out and correct any errors, before a crisis hits. via consumerist.com Employment History Reports The Work Number ChoicePoint (866) 312-8075 Acxiom Abso Tenant History Reports ChoicePoint (877) 448-5732 First Advantage SafeRent (888) 333-2413 Tenant Data Services RentBureau UD Registry (818) 785-3905 Auto & Home Insurance Claim Reports ChoicePoint Insurance... 

A Fight Identity Theft visitor forwarded this email to us today and it was so creative I just had to post it here. The email supposedly comes from Robert Mueller - the current head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. Not only was it sent by the FBI, the scammers try to get you to believe it's been vetted by the Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division. Unbelievable. Why Do They Send These Emails? What they're really after is the fee they want you to pay in order to collect your $850,000 - that's why they call this an "advanced-fee fraud." The fee is sent by money order which makes it very difficult to trace and impossible to recover. Here's the money paragraph: This letter will serve... 

We know everyone is looking for that best deal online, especially during the Black Friday shopping blitz. Here are some quality online shopping tips from Intersections, Inc. (provider of the Identity Guard identity theft protection service). We also recommend a post from the always excellent Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - "Holiday Shopping? Ten Timely Tips" Don’t Let Would-Be “Grinches” Steal Your Financial Health and Identity During the Busiest Shopping Season of the Year! As the biggest holiday shopping days of the year quickly approach, consumers everywhere will be lining up at stores on "Black Friday" for pre-dawn sales that will hopefully net great bargains and savings... 

This was brought to my attention in our IRC channel and it’s scary as hell. We’re not talking about boats, but rather packages. This article has all the details, but basically it comes down to someone sending in a wifi and wan enabled device to hack into corporate networks (think iphone). WarDriving Is So 2000 — Here Comes WarShipping  

Learn how to report phishing emails using the free Phishtank service and help make phish extinct. read more  

So you received a data breach notification in the mail… no big deal, right? Not according to Javelin Strategy & Research’s latest report. read more  

Really? Oh dear. This makes me laugh. Found it in my local news website. It’s National Protect Your Identity week – and knowing how to do that may be more important than ever before. Identity theft is a crime that is on the rise and recent statistics show Georgia is seventh in the nation in rates of citizens falling victim.  Crime statistics show about 10-million Americans fell victim to identity theft in 2008.  Skye Taylor with Consumer Credit Counseling Service Of Savannah says, “A lot of people think that identity theft is becoming more prevalent because of electronic information, but most of the identity theft that actually occurs is pretty low-tech.”  In fact she says – the area in which... 

Zone Alarm has made their excellent Zone Alarm Pro 2010 software available for download today – October 13, 2009 – free of charge. It will be available until 6am PST on October 14, 2009. read more  

via hackaday We’ve seen some ways to bypass biometric security measures but here’s a new offering that we think will be hard to fool. The Safelock system is used in conjunction with a password to identify a specific user. This software records your typing style including the time between keystrokes, the time keys are held, and key pressure data. This information is then normalized and compared to the information stored about the user when the password was originally set. If you don’t fall within specifications that match the stored data, you won’t get in even with the right password. The icing on the cake is that Safelock will look for malicious users. If you enter the wrong password, it will begin to record... 

Here is a fairly in-depth write up I found outlining the finer points to disappearing in America. Be sure to read all the way through, the bit about desert living at the end is particularly detailed. http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/vanish.htm