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Popular Mechanics February 2006 Brian Krebs	It's 10 PM. Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Global identity thieves may know their way around your computer better than you do. Learn how to protect yourself in the scary new world of zombies, RATs, Trojan horses and evil twins.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Is Your Brokerage Account Safe? A security breach at TD AMERITRADE creates headaches. With identity theft on the rise, it wouldn't hurt to ask your broker what's it's doing to prevent something like this from happening to you.
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Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Cory Levine	The Trouble With Customers and Their Data The cost of customer data exposure is increasing, and the financial services industry is trying to reconcile the price of customer data protection with the increasingly disconcerting ramifications of its loss.
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BusinessWeek April 17, 2006 Brian Grow	The Mind Games Cybercrooks Play Hackers are exploiting psychological vulnerabilities to gain access to your data.
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Searcher October 2007 Paul S. Piper	Phish Pharming: A Newer, More Profitable Aquaculture Detecting e-mail scams.
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CIO January 1, 2002 Sarah D. Scalet	How to Not Recover from Getting Hacked (A Loser's Guide to Failure) A guide for what not to do when you get hacked. Take a moment to learn from the mistakes that others have made.
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AskMen.com March 12, 2003 Steve Richer	How To: Avoid Identity Theft Criminals steal identities to commit all kinds of fraud and hide the misdeeds they commit. In 2001, there were more than 86,000 victims of this crime in the United States; that figure almost doubled to 162,000 in 2002. Read on to learn how to avoid being the next victim.
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InternetNews August 20, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Phishers Are Getting Together Free 'phishing kits' on the Web are making this scam easier than ever.
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