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Tips for Preventing Identity Theft OTTAWA, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - March is Fraud Prevention Month and Canada Post wants to remind customers that fraud, identity theft and other types of scams can happen anywhere - in your mailbox or recycle bin, via email, on the telephone, and more. Fraud-related offences are now thought to be as profitable as drug-related offences, estimated at between $10 and $30 billion annually in Canada by the RCMP's Commercial Crime Branch. One...

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ITAC, the Identity Theft Assistance Center, today announced that it helped its 100,000th consumer recover from identity theft using the free ITAC Victim Assistance® service, calling it a milestone in consumer protection. The 100,000th victim, Jo Loi from Lakeville, Conn., was referred to ITAC by her credit card issuer, Capital One. "I was so relieved to know there was somebody on my side in this," she said. Capital One alerted Ms. Loi about...

NEW YORK, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of several high profile data breaches and privacy incidents, a new Edelman study, "Privacy & Security: The New Drivers of Brand, Reputation and Action Global Insights 2012," reveals that concerns about data security and privacy are impacting what people buy and which companies they do business with. Data security and privacy are also pressing matters of public policy, with leaders from around the world demanding enhanced...

5-Step Method Provides Health Care Organizations with Tool to Estimate the Overall Potential Costs of a Data Breach ANSI, The Santa Fe Group/Shared Assessments Program Healthcare Working Group, and the Internet Security Alliance to Host Congressional Briefing Today; White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt Invited to Speak at Press Conference WASHINGTON, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the release today of The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health...

CHANTILLY, Va., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The recently released 2012 Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Report, shows that the number of identity fraud incidents increased by 13 percent in 2011, totaling 11.6 million adult victims. The report also found that certain social media behaviors and increasing number of data breach incidents contributed to the overall amount of identity fraud instances in the United States over the past year. Intersections Inc. (NASDAQ:...

Researchers say theory may help explain ethical lapses that led to recession Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Northridge have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment, and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy. For decades, sociologists have posited that individual behavior results from...

Electronic Verification Systems (EVS) is excited to add Intelligent ID to their growing list of top tier clients. Beginning immediately, Intelligent ID will use EVS’s IdentiFraud International product to provide an additional layer of security for their clientele. Louisville, KY (PRWEB) February 17, 2012 Electronic Verification Systems (EVS) is excited to add Intelligent ID to their growing list of top tier clients. Beginning immediately, Intelligent ID will use EVS’s IdentiFraud...

UC Riverside and CSU Northridge sociologists’ research suggests how bankers, stock brokers and mortgage lenders justified ruinous actions. Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Northridge have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy. For decades,...

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iVillage's Married Sex Survey debunks the idea that marriage stifles the libido by revealing that married women want and need good sex with their spouse. Husbands will be happy to know they can woo their wives simply by sharing loving feelings with her, which got 67% of women in the mood, as well as saying nice things, which nearly half of wives say turns them on. Wives say these actions are much better aphrodisiacs than receiving a gift,...

The language that adolescents use is often described as sloppy, with an air of 'What's going to happen to all these kids who can't even talk properly?' Yet research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that young people indeed possess a high level of language competence, and also a good ability to adapt to different persons and situations. However, there are also features of their language that do not change according to the situation and that indicate that they have a specific...