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New Technology & New Media Ripe for ID Theft
Talk about your BAD ME experiences. Just imagine — you waited in line for your iPhone, shelled out your $500, synched all your contacts . . . and now we find out all that precious, easily accessible data is ripe for ID theft. That’s the news today from the professional hackers at Independent Security Evaluators, who are now recommending that Apple offer a security patch for the problem.
And some words of caution today from the BBC to be careful what personal information you publish on the Web — especially on sites like MySpace and Facebook, where ID thieves are finding goldmines of personal details like birthdays, locations and occupations of the folks who frequent them. All that information makes the ID thieves’ jobs easier, so the Beeb is recommending exercising discretion in what you decide to make public.
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