Identity Theft Protection Guide

So the clever criminal gets hold of this information. 25 million of our details and takes just one pound from each and every account. That's a lot of money that wouldn't really be noticed as going out of an individual account. £25m would support a terrorist group very nicely. That is going to be the level of criminal that will be looking very interestedly at this blunder. But why stop there? The basic rate of payment for one child is £120 or there abouts. Mulitply that by 25 million and that is £3,000,000,000 gone missing. That's around buying a silo full of nuclear missiles worth. Seeing as nowhere has mentioned at all how much of an impact financially this would have. I thought it would be prudent to show what kind of monetary impact this would have on us and what kind of players would be interested in this.

Congress Rushes Through Law To Protect The Children... And Make Open ...

Your argument is idiotic. And next thing, you are going to say that every mom-and-pop coffee house as well as Starbucks should invest millions into becoming cyber cops. Brilliant.

The average home user should NOT have an open WiFi because they can not adequately protect themselves against attacks. That's not exactly what you said at first, now is it? And before you go trying to claim that it is, let me remind you that everyone can look right up above to see what you actually said.

Phila. man held in alleged plan to bilk insurers

For a time, the alleged scam seems to have worked. A Frankford man is accused of bilking Pennsylvania auto insurers out of $29,000 in 17 false claims of vandalism between February 2002 and May 2003 by using fraudulently obtained policies on vehicles he registered in his name and the name of a person whose identity he stole, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Insurance Fraud Unit announced yesterday. An additional 45 claims, worth more than $120,000, were fraudulently sought but ultimately denied, investigators said. Authorities charged Keith Lewis, 41, of the 5400 block of Erdrick Street, with deploying a car and three SUVs - including a 2000 Toyota Camry owned by his girlfriend, who was not charged - to orchestrate the scheme, which began after he provided initial premium payments drawn on a bank account without sufficient money.

R.I.P. Identity Theft

During the summer, one national electronics chain discharged the most experienced members of its sales force, deciding to let its customers to supply their own product expertise. You won't find that at an Apple store, where every employee is expected to be a fan of the products, as journalist Alex Frankel discovered when he applied for a job.
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A lot more to do

There will be those who point to the "Bad Brown" aspects of this announcement, and ask why it came from the prime minister rather than Douglas Alexander, who is meant to be in charge of international development. What may cause most unease among development veterans, however, is the government's enthusiasm for involving multinational companies. In Africa and elsewhere, private-sector companies have not usually been the engines of development. Indeed, in the tug of interests between poor state and rich multinational, the powerless side often loses. Where corporates can come in handy is as an employer or trader in a country that is already industrialising. All those technology firms would not flock to Bangalore, say, if a highly educated, highly motivated Indian workforce was not already there.

Government moves to quash identity theft

OTTAWA — The federal government is expected to introduce new legislation Wednesday that will crack down on identity thieves in an attempt to reduce fraud and related crimes that have exploded in recent years.

The new bill will make changes to the Criminal Code to make it illegal for individuals to collect and hoard other peoples' debit and credit cards, drivers licences and other personal information. Under current law, it's legal for Canadians to possess stacks of passports, credit cards or other information belonging to others, as long as it is not used to commit a crime. Police have long highlighted that gap as a major problem that has prevented them from properly catching identity thieves.

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Housing decline hits area unevenly

January seemed to bear that out, with sales rising for the first time in more than a year just before the all-important spring season. But even last year, average prices increased at least 10 percent in a third of Baltimore's suburban communities -- and in a remarkable three-quarters of city neighborhoods.