Security Guides and Resources

Everything you need to know about how your personal information is vulnerable to today’s on and offline threats. Find insights, facts, recommendations and best practices in our content library.

Business

4 Lean Tech Strategies for Startup Success

Implementing Data-driven Decision-making One powerful tool to give start-ups an agility edge is applying big data …

Family

4 Reasons Why You Should Monitor Your Child's Online Activity

Cyberbullying In a 2015 survey, conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers found that 16 …

Fraud

Fraudulent Freelancing: What You Need to Know

The Mark Though identity theft can befall anyone at any time, of modern gig workers, those who promote and are hired …

Fraud

A Look at Increasing Cell Phone Account Fraud

How It Works By the time you notice something is wrong, it’s already too late. Victims of this ploy report being …

Identity

Why Michigan and Florida Top the FTC's Identity Theft List

Population Size Naturally, the more people within a given area, the greater the chance of identity theft and complaint …

Malware

Lessons Learned from the WannaCry Attacks

WannaCry Explained Though it may have seemed like it at the time, WannaCry did not happen overnight. It was actually …

Family

Five Tips for Fostering Financial Harmony in Marriage

1. Come Clean About Your Financial Past Everyone has something in their past they’d rather not share, especially with …

Seniors

How to Protect Your Parent from Identity Theft

Phone and Email Scams There are tons of scams you and your parent should be on the lookout for. The easiest rule to …

Phishing

Phishing Scammer Takes Google & Facebook for Millions

Since most computer users have learned to be wary of Nigerian princes who come bearing inheritance money, scammers have …

Taxes

Hackers Exploit FAFSA Tool to Steal $30 Million from IRS

What Happened? Back in September 2016, the IRS detected a breach on FAFSA’s site, but decided to keep it open …

Seniors

Medicare Creates New Anti-Identity Theft Cards for 2018

Victims of medical identity theft pay, on average, more than $13,500 to clear and reclaim their own names. Through no …

Identity

U.S. Postal Service Gets a Digital Upgrade to Prevent Identity Theft

What Is Informed Delivery? Informed Delivery sends you an email every morning with a black and white picture of the mail …