Monday, September 21, 2009

Top 20 Security Risks

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Review the top 20 security risks. Which risk related to identity theft? What can be done to protect yourself from identity theft?

23 comments:

  1. taking another person finanical identitiy through the internet is identity theift and one way you can prevent it is by having a firewall or a spyware protection.
    Torres

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  2. Phishing/Spear Phishing is related to Identity Theft and the best way to avoid it is to not reply to any emails that asks you for personal information such as account numbers, passwords and/or any other personal information. (Sandra Pollero)

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  3. Gordon.
    One can protect themselves from identity theft by reducing the amount of personal information disclosed on a computer.

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  4. one way to be sure of not letting other people get your personal information such as account number, its to avoid cookies that can be placed into your computer and making spyware chech periodically. (Martinez)

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  5. there are many ways to prevent identity theft. some of the most popular tips i use are; Secure your business premises with locks and alarms,Be cautious on the phone, and Limit access to your computers.

    garces

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  6. There are many ways to protect yourself from identity theft. One is by not giving out to much personal information on the computer or phone. also change your email account during the year

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  7. Not updating the security on your computer can be related to Identity theft.You can protect yourself by updating your security, and being carful with where you put your personal information.

    -Shannon

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  8. Unfortunately, Identy Theft is becoming infamous in todays life. I protect myself by not replying to emails that ask for my acct. number or personal information i.e passwords or security questions.

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  9. Go figure im a security guard and this security subject really doesn’t apeal to me. When I had a computer I never had a problem. I belive I have always kept my information pretty much to myself and have always keept my anti virus and firewalls up to date. I have always been one of those sckeptical people who wait, stand back and watch others try new things before jumping head first into the unknown. (ex. Shopping online and giving my credit card number online didn’t start happening till about a year ago.) (Lazaro D. Perez Jr.)

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  10. To protect yourself from identity theft you should never give your personal information out to anyone. You should only go through safe and secure websites if you are purchacing anything online. You should never send your personal information over the internet to anyone. Also, always monitor your credit report so you can make sure nothing out of the oridnary is going on.

    Khan

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  12. Unencrypted Laptops and Removable Media is usually unsecured and if lost, it instantly becomes vulnerable to others to steal personal information stored inside.

    People who do a lot of traveling and live off their laptops/portable media are at risk of losing it. Flashdrivees, for example, are made smaller every time and if lost, a sea of information is lost with it. This information can include personal numbers and data, that in turn can lead to identity theft.

    Securing ones laptop to its fullest capabilities should help. Also, if one tries to avoid entering personal, sensitive, & important data on small, vulnerable devices.. then if and when it gets lost, they don't "lose too much".

    -Gamboa, Fiorella

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  13. This blog is extremely imformative and it has tons of useful info. Thanks for posting it. I really liked the informaiton on the IE vulnerabilities and actually just stared using Opera as my main browser. (William Murphy)

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  14. Phising is a security problem. One way you could avoid this is not giving personal infomation away online.

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  15. The ones I saw related to identity theft were: Excessive User Rights and Unauthorized Devices, Phishing/Spear Phishing and Unencrypted Laptops and Removable Media. Identity theft is a huge problem, but you can protect yourself by being careful about where and to who you give out your credit card number or personal information. Also, making sure the internet site is valid AND secure.

    -Vargas

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  16. The way I protect my self from online identity theft is by using a spyware and scanning my computer on a daily basis. I also clear my memory and cookies after I close the web browser.(Nicolas Ruiz, Tuesday class)

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  17. When using sites that require personal information always make sure that you wanted to go to that site and that you were not directed there by a secondary link. Also, I always make sure that the site is encrypted before putting any of my personal information on it.
    Leandro Izquierdo

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  18. Martin Garcia.
    The best way to prevent identity theft is not sharing your personal information with nobody.

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  19. There are many ways to protect yourself from identity theft, and you can be careful with where you put your personal information. Marcus Grandi

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  20. To protect our personal identity, firstable we have to be infomed how thefts are working now so we dont trust people on the streets, or strage e-mails asking to much information and let our friend, workers and family know so they can prevent also.leidy Quintana

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  21. the info on client confidental email should be refrianed from shared servers or networked sytems is useful to the fact that emails can be reached by unathorized

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  22. Phishing/Spear Phishing is a risk related to identity theft. You can protect yourself by not desclosing to much personal information on the web and whenever you're making a transaction you should make sure the site is protected.

    -Tanis, W

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  23. lee

    I for on is A victim of identity theft. i have been for almost 13 years.i had my identity stolen when i was on 11 years of age. and was unaware until my late teens one way that i have slowed and tried to prvent this process is by not buying things on the internet i know it sounds crazy but i guess im scared to buy from there othere then that i can say it takes a lot to get out of and still to this day im working passed it

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