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credit cardsWith the popularity of the internet growing every day, more and more people are shopping online and paying for their purchases with credit cards. This type of shopping is fast, convenient and door delivered; factors which encourage the spread of this trend. However, have you ever stopped to think how safe credit card processing is online or whether it is possible for anyone to copy your credit card number and steal your money or worse, your identity? Studies show that almost 10 perce

In a sampling of two thousand recycled mobile phones, 99 percent were found to have sensitive data like banking information and confidential emails. The sampling was done by Regenersis. They processed over 2 million handsets in 2008; that’s one handset every 15 seconds. During a random sampling in December they discovered how many mobiles had not been wiped clean: a lot! Read more of this story »

As Information technology has become used more and more in our everyday lives they have helped us to develop some exciting new ways of doing almost anything. We have truly arrived in the digital age and everything from the Internet to cash machines have used IT to enhance our lives. The only problem with all of the advancements in computer technology is that they have led to new threats.You always hear about identity theft and people’s personal information being lost these days. This just con

Smythe, far left, signed up at age 45 to fight overseas in the Second World War Late in life, Conn Smythe liked to drive out to a spot in Scarborough, where a hill ran down to some train tracks. It reminded him where he was from: as a boy he shared a home with his father near-by — no power, no plumbing, no water, no heat — on the outer fringes of Toronto. His father had a friend on the railway, who would fling a newspaper from the train as it passed each morning. It was Smythe’s job to

We make it all to easy for crooks to steal our identities. I work in a customer service environment and on a daily basis I witness people virtually handing out their identities.