We often listen in news papers, blogs and in other media about the fraud in which some one steal identity record of a person and use it unfairly. The question arises, how the criminals theft the identity record?. There are many ways to obtain your particular records but mainly based ...

The best way to find out is to monitor your accounts and bank statements each month, and check your credit report on a regular basis. If you check your credit report regularly, you may be able to limit the damage caused by identity theft. If your account statement does not ...

Holiday season shopping is at the peak and identity theft is also at its height. A police report that provides specific details of the identity theft is considered an Identity Theft Report, which entitles you to certain legal rights when it is provided to the three major credit reporting agencies ...

Java Card technology is one of the best secure authentication technologies for trust, privacy and verification of identity on the network, deployed in over 500 million smart card and mobile phone environments around the world. Sun is building on this success and applying its expertise to the Windows environment though ...

According to new research, while 87 percent of organizations are confident that they can deal with viruses, spam and malware, only 35 percent feel they are able to deal with the prospect of lost data. What’s more, 73 percent of those questioned believed they could lose their jobs ...

On the same day we reported the theft of a National Health Service (NHS) laptop resulting in the possible ID theft of 30,000 employees, one WatchYourEnd contributor found himself on an evening train home from London sat opposite what appeared to be a senior NHS manager (it said “Property of ...

The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) yesterday admitted the loss of an external hard drive containing the personal, bank and payroll information of up to 100,000 of its former and current employees who worked for the agency from January 2002 until August 2005. It was reportedly stolen from a human ...

A six year-old child has hacked into the UK Parliament’s computer system, installing a keylogger onto an MP’s machine. As part of an experiment run by the UK campaign ‘Get Safe Online’, the minister agreed to leave her PC unattended for 60 seconds. In a quarter of that time, the ...