Facts And Suggestions to Help Prevent Identity Theft

Facts about Identity Theft

1. In 2008 the FTC received 1,223,370 complaints that involved identity theft which is a 15% increase from 2007. That number is expected to increase by 15-25% in 2009.
   


2. From the years 2005 to 2008 identity theft has grown by over 25% with an average increase of 79,000 victims per year.
   


3. 65% of all Identity Theft Victims don’t report identity theft to police.
   


4. 52% of all Identity Theft is through email and 11% are from fake websites. The internet is responsible for 63% of all fraud and identity theft victims.
   


5. The largest group of identity theft victims are between the ages of 40-49.
   


6. Average cost per victim of identity theft $500 and that number doesn’t take into account time lost contacting credit cards companies, banks, and police.
   


7. Credit Card fraud accounted for 20% of all theft.

Additional Suggestions to Help Prevent Identity Theft

Use an alternate email address and a Fake Name.
Do you sign up for several newsletters, coupon sites, gaming sites, or other websites? We have two recommendations for this. One, create an email address with Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail and use that email address for all these sites. Have all of these emails go to that email address. This way whenever you check the email account you know that all it is junk mail and your don’t need to respond to any of it.

Second, use a fake name when signing up for newsletters. If you use a fake name for these sites and then you get an email saying your account needs to be updated or you have suspicious activity on your account you don’t have to worry about it. You can make the assumption that the email is designed to get personal information from you. Simply hit delete.

soures : http://www.internetsafetycenter.com/

Hacker attack on Indian domain web site

If you have .in domain site then seomeerut.com advice, check your website regularly.
Actually according to Computer Emergency Response Team, on Indian site website hacker attack is increased at rocket speed in September. In last September 511 Dot in (.in) domain site was target of website hacker. While in the last August Dot in (.in) hacker site attack was on 453 Indian website.

So check you .in website HTML code regularly basses, and if you have find some unknown HTML code immediately remove it and reload your website all page.

If possible disable editing in home page in web site FTP setting. Mostly web site home page or web site index page are infected by virus.

Is // (Double slash) in internet address is unnecessary.

Before the surf any site or visit webpage of any site, when you type // (Double slash) before the address, have you think any time that this is the wastage of time? If you have not thought its okay, but the father of WWW (World Wide Web) and Brittany scientist Sir Teem bunners Lee accept it as a big mistake.

Sir Teem bunners Lee was develop WWW before 20yaers, and the says that “Before any website address //(Double slash)was a big mistake, when I was develop URL(Uniform Recourse Locater ) then its was start by slash after HTTP, if you think about that ,you may realize that yes it’s unnecessary.

Sir Teem bunners Lee was speech on ‘Future of Technology’ point in Washington. He was develop world’s first web site in a Switzerland lab before 20 years on 1991.

Facebook won against spammer Sanford Wallace

Social networking site Facebook has won the case abuse of Facebook user account to send spam. Actually a spammer, Sanford Wallace was use facebook user accountwithout their permission and phony wall posts and messages.


And this was a big whole in social networking site Facebook reputation. So Facebook claim on spammer in court to pay fine as in damages of Social networking site.

Judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against spammer. In addition to the damages, Judge Jeremy Fogel of U.S. District Court in Northern California's San Jose division banned Wallace, and anyone affiliated with him, from accessing Facebook.

And in May, 2008, social networking site MySpace won a $230 million judgment against Wallace for sending spam mail. Spam King Sanford Wallace lives in Las Vegas, according to the court, and a phone message for him was not immediately returned.

Regarding the ruling, the networking site said it is another important victory in the fight against spam. Earlier this year, a US court had issued a temporary restraining order against three spammers -- Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for sending unwanted messages and wall posts to people on Facebook.

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Yahoo has closed Yahoo Geocities

Yahoo has closed free web hosting service Yahoo Geocities on October 26, 2009. . Before some month yahoo was close Yahoo brifcase service. Actually in late June 2009, Yahoo was updated the GeoCities home page that was indicate that :- "GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009."

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Twitter Secret

Twitter is a very popular social network site, although it’s a micro bloging website. This social network site has fix 140 word limit to it’s user for send a message or post a single post.

A tweeting blue bird is the registered logo of tweeter. After login you must give answer a question “What are you doing now” but in 140 word only. If you are going to join twitter, these twitter secreat may be help full for you.

1. Tweet:- On twitter ,whatever a user post like, twitter status update, a message or any post is known as Tweet.
   
2. RT- This is the abbreviation of Re-tweet means a twitter user is re-posting that already tweet.
   
3. Tweett pic - This is a free photo share services on twitter and this is twitter secret.
   
4. “#” or Sharp – is used when a user starts a new topic on twitter to discuss, and you can participate in this discussion. For ex. ‘# web page tip’ means a user has start a new topic on web page tip.
   
5. ‘@’ – Means we are giving answer, if you want give answer to any question to your twitter followers or twitter friend just type’@ twitter followers or twitter friend ‘s name’It means this answer is only for that friend.
   
6. Tweet Deck - You can update your twitter status without login in twitter website, yes you can this by Tweet Deck, a free program from twitter that support account on facebook also.
   
7. Tiny URL – When you past a big hyperlink in twitter, it automatically replace by short URL and any body click its redirect to original web site URL. This short URL is called tiny URL
   
8. Follow – Follow more twitter user to get more twitter followers so they can follow you also. If any following user tweets, you will get it in your twitter account immediately.
   

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Stop hacking password - virtual key pad- Secure password

The number one search engine Google's Internet survey says that online hacker hack, 10Thousnad’s user bank accounts, credit card and trading password per day.
Stop hack password virtual key - Secure password Virus was spread by hackers on the Internet computer network. And the virus or Key logger send all character that was type by keyboard means its send your personal information to hacker by using PC key board or Laptop key board .

Net banking,credit card or online trading passwords can be preserved with virtual keypad. Many private banks and the net shopping websites are using Virtual key pad on its website to stop hack account .

Actually virtual keypad is the prototype of PC key board, which we use with mouse click, after login it show on screen. Use of virtual key board can stop hacking, because we not direct type but enter character by mouse click.

While on keyboard when we type letters Key Logger send Email ID, Password, user name and other useful personal info prototype to hacker.

After login with virtual keypad you can use simple key board also.

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