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Skype Safety Tips for Kids and Parents

Articles, Cyber Bullying, Digital Parenting, Identity Theft Prevention, Online Security / By Lisa Carey

Skype is a free video chat and instant messaging service widely used for family and friends to keep in touch with each other. Parents and kids often use the service as it was intended, but sometimes kids and parents get a rude shock.

Eraser Challenge Draws Concerns from Parents and Schools

Articles, Digital Parenting / By Lisa Carey

A dangerous game called “Eraser Challenge” has gone viral and is fast becoming popular with teenagers.

Simple social media etiquette guide

Articles, Digital Parenting / By Lisa Carey

There are entire media sites devoted to helping us enhance our social reach. There are some basic social etiquette rules that are a good idea be followed both online and offline.

NXT-ID claims Wocket™ is useless to thieves

Articles, Consumer Protection, Credit Cards / By Lisa Carey

Each time after the dynamic card is used, it is zeroized. Thus, it is merely blank piece of plastic to any ambitious thief.”

Medical Records are New Target for Cybercriminals

Articles, Consumer Protection, Identity Theft Prevention / By Lisa Carey

Robert Gregg, chief executive of ID Experts, “A financial identity can be worth $5 to $10 if you have all the info. A medical identity can be five to 10 times that amount just because how easy it is to monetize that information once the bad guys get it.”

Steam Family Sharing Available to Users

Digital Parenting, Online Security / By Lisa Carey

Steam allows individual members to save game places, earn achievements and save application data in the Steam Cloud. According to GameSpot, “Lenders can’t access games that aren’t available in their region or games that require a third-party key, account or subscription.”

Bitcoins Vanish and Mt. Gox Goes Dark

Articles, Consumer Protection, Online Security / By Lisa Carey

Karpeles said that technical issues and “some weakness in the system” opened the way for the fraudulent withdrawals.

PSN Hackers Target PS4 Users, Sony Stays Silent

Articles, Digital Parenting, Online Security / By Lisa Carey

PSN users need to make sure their accounts can’t get hacked. One way that users can prevent hackers from stealing their information . . .

U.S. Secret Service Investigating Possible Data Breach at Sears?

Articles, Consumer Protection, Online Security / By Lisa Carey

Bloomberg News, using an un-indentified source, reported that the U.S. Secret Service was involved in investigating a secret breach at Sears. The U.S. Secret Service is remaining quiet on whether or not it is actually investigating a breach at the retailer.

Stolen Identity Refund Fraud: Who, What and Why

Agencies, Articles, Consumer Protection, Identity Theft Prevention / By Lisa Carey

The burden of proof rests on the individual to prove that their identity was actually stolen and that they did not file a return in the first place.

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