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Fresh off the news that Nomura required female executives to attend 'tea making' courses - now comes the news that the Asian bank has banned 'gay' nail polish. Before the Gay and Lesbian Alliance sta...
I gave up talking about identity theft. That horse has bolted and the barn door has been wide open too long. As I predicted some time ago, ID theft , and personal data theft enabling ID fraud is so ra...
Imagine if someone used your name and image, or the name and logo of a business you own, to create a profile on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking website. Then they start posting blogs...
OK, so people generally reveal too much about themselves. They tend to be more trusting than security advisers would like them to be. So, where to next? Some will view this video with alarm and will...
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin Almost all consumers have been affected in some way by the rec
So Goldman Sachs is in the news again. According to a recent article in the New York Times the firm and its employees are enjoying one of the richest periods in the bank's 140-year history. Imagine th...
In the old days the CIO was often a board member - as important as business area executives. Then came the age of internal procurement processes and the IT-departments were sent to the boiler room and...
See us at the the Identity Theft Protection Blog and the 2009 National Protect Your Identity Week. In order to solve this massive problem, it is absolutely essential that you – the public, corporatio...
Does this have any relevance to western 'micro-credit' or consumer credit cards? I notice the default rate heading over 10% for credit cards. This is a quote from a World Bank site discussing microfin...
With National Identity Fraud Prevention Week drawing to a close, once more the spotlight is put on how consumers can be protected from ID theft. While individuals should remain extremely vigilant agai...
Recently Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Comcast and Earthlink announced thousands of email addresses and their passwords were phished by identity thieves and posted in an online forum. One report suggests...
I make a portion of my living talking about identity theft. Admittedly, I profit from the crime. I don’t steal identities of course, but I get paid because others steal. I’m not FBI, CIA, Secret Servi...