Avoiding Identity Theft: Part One

Good article from a local website on how to prevent identity theft and how security breaches and theft of corporate information can affect you.

Avoiding Identity Theft: Part One
Westport News
Identity theft is rampant these days. It's in the news all the time. Databases are being penetrated on a regular basis. And, even if you don't fall prey to full-blown identity theft, your credit or debit card number might end up being used for a few hundred dollars worth of merchandise on some Web site in Asia. It happens all the time.

While some crime still goes down the old-fashioned way, somebody gets your credit card number during a everyday transaction, much of it is the result of the Internet. Welcome to the future. Science fiction writers predicted many things but cybercrime was foreseen by very few. The Internet, it seems, is both a blessing and a curse.

Full article: http://www.westport-news.com/opinion/ci_4052852