Identity Protection Blog
The identity theft blog keeps the site visitors informed about changes to identity-theft-awareness.com including new articles, major news, alerts, and updates to existing pages.

• Top Annual Resolutions
  Our top annual resolutions should be inclusive of critical goals to address risks in our lives including identity theft risks.
• Public Accounting Myths
  Why your accounting career choices should not be based on public accounting myths.
• Identity Theft News, Analysis And Commentaries
  Become informed and read the latest identity theft news, commentaries and analysis.
• FBI New E-Scams & Warnings
  The FBI has become aware of a spam e-mail purporting to be from Amando M. Tetangco, the governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, (Central Bank of the Philippines). The e-mail claims the recipient is the beneficiary of a large sum of money, free of any liens or encumbrances, and asks the recipient to confirm personal information.
• Safe Holiday Shopping Tips
  When shopping during the holiday season or for any other occasion, we need to be aware of identity theft risks and apply these safe holiday shopping tips.
• LifeLock Review Enrollment, Expectations and Benefits
  I enrolled for the LifeLock service and documented the sign-up process, my expectations and service benefits in this LifeLock review.
• The LifeLock Service
  I have been studying the LifeLock service for protecting my own identity. My analysis of the service and its benefits are described here.
• Identity Theft Affidavit
  When new accounts are created without our authorization due to the theft of our identity, an identity theft affidavit can be completed and filed to claim our innocence and avoid future liability.
• California Fire Disaster Risks
  My sympathies go out to the California fire victims. Natural disaster identity fraud risks are predictable before and after any natural disaster. Such fraud risk predictions must be taken seriously to avoid further disaster losses.
• File A Dispute Letter To Refute Unauthorized And Erroneous Charges
  When you face unauthorized and erroneous credit card charges, you must also notify the institution in writing through a dispute letter.
• Security of FAFSA, TOPS compromised
  The state office that handles college loans and scholarship applications announced Monday they are missing a file containing information from FAFSA and TOPS applications after waiting almost a month to notify those affected by the loss.
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 779
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 779 by Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, to restrict businesses from storing sensitive payment data. The bill also sought to require companies to give consumers extensive information when a security breach occurs. It came as a response to the 2005-06 theft of more than 45 million credit card numbers from a T.J. Maxx and Marshall's database.
• Increased Secretary Power And Access
  Once in a while, executives might assign administrative task to their assistants requiring bosss privileged access rights, thus increasing secretary power.
• A Factual Article Is Not Inclusive Of All Risks
  When writing an article about a certain risk, some factual article may be based on objective facts as evidenced in the news, but others may just be based on subjective judgment.
• Free Credit Report Monitoring
  Under Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), you can now request a copy of your free credit report from each of the 3 agencies every 12 months and monitor for any signs of identity theft.
• Fraud Notification Process
  When companies face stolen or lost personal information, they must carefully consider the fraud notification process, which includes discovery, identification and fraud probability assessment.
• Free Strategies To Prevent, Detect and Resolve Identity Theft.
  Identity theft solutions are provided to help you protect your identity, prevent identity crime, monitor and detect signs of stolen identity, and deal with the aftermath of identity theft as a victim.
• When Making Medical Bill Payments
  When facing medical bill payments, we have various options for making those payments. I considered my payment options when I received my medical bills.
• Managing Identity Theft Fear
  Most of us have fears including identity theft fear that we have to deal with. If we ignore our fears and real threats, we will emotionally break down and face real dangers.
• Unavoidable Risks Include Identity Theft
  We face many unavoidable risk in life such as identity theft, however, with proper planning, we can overcome the challenges of dealing with the unpredictable risks.
• Information KAGE Security Framework
  The Information KAGE security framework is created to simplify managements process for developing an information security strategy and risk management.
• Buy Credit And Every One Loses
  We have been able to buy credit score until now which affected the lenders, buyers and sellers of good credit.
• Control Your Urge For Credit
  We all get an urge for credit once in a while, but we have to analyze the reasons for our urge and take the appropriate actions based on our assessment.
• Activate Account Alert
  You can activate account alert to monitor account activities real time and quickly detect potential account fraud.
• When Wallet Is Lost - Consequences And Actions
  Losing a wallet or purse may be inevitable but damage control and speedy recovery can be proactively accomplished when wallet is lost.
• Account And Loan Consolidation Benefits
  Identity fraud inflicted on existing loan accounts can be reduced with proper assessment for account and loan consolidation.
• Online Account Monitoring
  Consumers should consider online account monitoring to detect identity fraud and account errors.
• Fake Unlicensed Contractors
  Some contractors we hire may be fake unlicensed contractors, therefore we have to make sure we only hire the right people for our safety.
• Why Some Executives Abuse Power
  Some corporate executives abuse power and ignore internal controls for many reasons. The rational for such decisions and consequences for their companies are briefly discussed.
• Alert - Fidelity Admits Theft Of Data On 2.3m Customers
  Fidelity stressed that no computer systems were compromised in the data theft. The information was collected and transported by a database administrator who was placed in charge of data access privileges.
• Alert - 2.3 Million Consumer Financial Records Stolen
  Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company, said Tuesday a worker at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 mill