August 16, 2013 Identity theft happens. It's an unfortunate fact of modern life. But there are certain steps you can take to help keep your personal information from falling into the wrong hands. Every day, you do things to protect what's most important to you. And you know what? You do them almost automatically. Routine things like looking both ways before you cross, brushing your teeth, and buckling your seat belt. Another routine to get into is keeping tabs on your identity and personal information
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Joseph Wellington a certified fraud examiner has requested help in reviewing cases that involve identity theft of University Professors. A Certified fraud examiner is one that investigates possible illegal activity. He or She will review and analyze documentation and interviews of suspects and help to work out the facts and details of a fraud claim. Along with this they will help to set up training and guidelines for employers and employees to prevent fraud. They receive their training and certification
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search engine your search history reveals a lot about you like your beliefs, associations and other personal information. Anytime that you are visiting websites cached copies of those sites are saved and your activities links to they call “Internet identity” and remains the Google database for a very long time. Bluetooths have proved to be a helpful device for cell phones and hackers now have found ways to them in stealing people’s information. Many of the new cell phones have Bluetooth by for uses
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criminals like to use two different techniques, non-technological schemes and technological schemes. Non – technological schemes include dumpster diving, mail theft, social engineering, and shoulder surfing and stealing personal items. This technique is exactly what it sounds like the criminal or hacker does not use technology but will use theft and other diversions to gather personal information. Dumpster diving is the act of going through somebody else’s garbage to obtain personal information off
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be considers as target when the crime is directed to the computer. In addition, cyber crime also includes traditional crimes that been conducted with the access of Internet. For example hate crimes, telemarketing Internet fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts. In simple word, cybercrime can be defined as any violence action that been conducted by using computer or other devices with the access of internet. This action can give harmful effects to other. Report made by authorities showed
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are doing, they will change the cost benefit and it will reduce the likelihood of them doing the crime again (Brown, 2013). As far as the violent crimes, these people are more likely going to do the crime no matter what the outcome may be. Identity theft is a term used to refer to all types of crime in which someone
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accounting information system (AIS) by outside sources. Identity theft is defined as “the unauthorized use or attempted misuse of an existing credit card or other existing account, the misuse of personal information to open a new account or for another fraudulent purpose, or a combination of theses types of misuse”(statisticbrain). In 2013, identify theft has caused 11,571,900 $24,700,000,000 was the total financial loss attributed to identity theft in 2013 (statisticbrain). Hackers thrive on stealing
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In 2013 an article in CNN Money estimated that identity fraud occurs every two seconds. Identity fraud is a serious problem that claims millions of innocent victims. Our identity is what makes us unique. In 2013 my purse was stolen while I was volunteering at a local private school. The thieves falsely presented themselves as me, using my driver’s license and social security number to diminish my entire bank account in less than 2 hours. Thousands of my dollars, my entire life savings, had
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Media Issue Paper and Info. Literacy Worksheet Student’s Name University Affiliation Governments should be allowed to monitor and/or censor the Internet use of citizens Introduction Internet censorship is the restriction of the content that can be accessed, published, or viewed through the internet. In any country, the government has a vital role and responsibility in the enhancement of information and technology. It is the right of everyone to have freedom of opinion and expression. Every person
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Case Study on How to Manage the Theft of Information Robert M Polstra III Kennesaw State University 2004 Westwood Rd Smyrna, GA 30080 404-641-8937 rpolstra@hotmail.com ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION This paper shows the importance that management plays in the protection of information and in the planning to handle a security breach when a theft of information happens. Recent thefts of information that have hit major companies have caused concern. These thefts were caused by companies’ inability
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