If you want identity theft protection, you’ll find a friend in Card Cops. One of the best ways of preventing cyber identity theft – the best identity theft insurance – is nipping it in the bud before it can happen, and that’s just what CardCops does through their I.D. Protect program. So when Card Cops come a’calling you, saying that someone has your information and is in the process of selling or stealing your identity, pay attention!

Identity theft is a crime, and criminal identity theft comes in all forms. We have several articles concerning identity theft right here on our identity theft blog pages, and yes, there is now identity theft insurance, often available through your own insurance agency, your bank, or even your local state laws. But this is a new twist: read this true story about how Maria Nelson stole Karen Lodrick’s identity – became Karen Lodrick for several months – and then was apprehended by the real Karen Lodrick!

Domain tasting may sound like a funny term, but it’s no laughing matter. But exactly what is domain tasting? Sometimes called “Domain Kiting”, domain tasting is when someone registers a domain name for the express purpose of testing it out during the five-day grace period to see whether it will receive enough traffic to pay for itself, usually with just the clickthrough advertising on the site itself.

Now this is a fabulous theft and loss insurance for your phone, PDA or laptop! It’s called StuffBak (because it helps you get your stuff back, get it?) and it’s kind of like those microchipping i.d. services for pets, only it’s for your portable electronic devices, such as your laptop, your PDA, and your cell phone! It’s basically loss and theft insurance for your portables! And through a partnership with The Internet Patrol and StuffBak, you can get a 10% discount off their already incredibly reasonable pricing!

The machine identification code of your printer may be being embedded on every single page you print, including the date, the time, and your printer’s serial number. Is our technology spying on us?

Bank of America and other banks’ customers are often the victims of identity theft. Now the banks are offering identity theft protection, but they are charging customers for the protection.

Identity theft protection in the form of a new phishing law has come to California. It not only outlaws phishing, but gives individuals who were scammed by phishers the right to sue.

Internet banking is very convenient, and is generally safe. But Internet banking services which provide for check-issuing can be very dangerous.

Free online credit reports are now available as required by a new credit score reporting law, the FACT Act, passed last year. Under the new rules you are entitled to a free credit report online every year from the big three credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.

Your online resume may be ripe for a new scam by identity thieves in which they simply lift all of your personal information from your resume and assume your identity.

Lifelock identity theft insurance promises that that “If an identity is ever stolen while a LIFELOCK program membership is in effect, LIFELOCK will fix all issues arising from the theft and will reimburse any out of pocket expenses lost up to $1 million dollars.” They offer this program direct to individuals, and they also hope that employers will offer it as part of a benefits package. Not only an interesting idea, but a sign of our times, unfortunately.

The implications are staggering. Internet security software company Sunbelt Software was investigating CoolWebSearch, a spyware package, when they noticed that stowing away in the CoolWebSearch download were two trojans, a spam zombie engine, and a keystroke logging program. It was the keylogger program which took their breath away. The keystroke…

Things we all have heard before, but it’s good to be reminded: FRAMINGHAM, Mass., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — A new CSO Magazine Security Sensor(TM) survey of 389 chief security officers (CSOs) and senior security executives reveals the majority of security chiefs believe taking the right precautions will protect the average…

Both Visa and American Express have announced that they are severing business relations with security-beleagured company CardSystems, Inc. You may recall that CardSystems, Inc. was recently sued as a result of a security breach which lead to the compromise of the credit card data of 40million credit card holders. Data…

We’ve had lots of stories on identity theft lately. That’s because it’s happening to a lot of people. People whose credit card information has been stolen (ChoicePoint, Lexis Nexis). People whose college admissions and academic records have been hacked (Stanford, UCSD). What all of these people have in common, besides…