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Mar 12, 2024
Vero and Privacy4Cars Partner to Release Identi-FI, the Auto Market's First Identity Theft and Connected Car Protection Solution
Full-Circle Solution for Dealerships Offers Customers Privacy Tools and Identity Protection Before, During and After Vehicle Changes...
Nov 6, 2023
Helping Members Face ID Theft and DataBreach Risks – and a Dismal Economy
Republished from CU Times dated October 20, 2023. By James McCabe U.S. News & World Report released the results of its recent study on ID...
Oct 2, 2023
Will AI Increase Your Risk of Identity Theft?
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago titled The Potential for AI-Powered Identity Theft: How Your Digital Footprint Could Be...
Apr 17, 2023
U.S. Consumers Lost $43 Billion to Identity Theft & Fraud in 2022
According to the recently released Javelin Strategy & Research Identity Fraud Study, Identity Theft Affected 40 Million U.S. Adults in...
Apr 3, 2023
Financial Institutions and Credit Card Companies Lost $4.8 Billion to Synthetic Identity Theft
According to a March 10, 2023 Help Net Security article titled Synthetic identity fraud prevention calls for a new approach to identity...
Mar 1, 2023
Annual FTC Report: Consumers Lost Nearly $8.8 billion to Identity Theft and Fraud
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just released its annual 2022 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book – or what I call the FTC’s Annual...
Jan 24, 2023
Is Your Personal Information Safe When Buying a Car?
In the past five years, identity theft and cybercrime have significantly increased in many industries, including the automotive industry....
Jan 9, 2023
10 Tips to Avoid Identity Theft in 2023
As the New Year is upon us, 2023 will bring the desire to improve and prosper with new personal and professional goals. The same desire...
Jun 27, 2022
10 Tips to Reduce your Risk of Identity Theft
Whether you are a consumer or a small-business owner – help protect yourself by taking charge of your cybersecurity and personal privacy...
May 24, 2022
Don’t Be the Weak Link to Identity Theft
Nearly eight years ago I wrote a December 2014 article for the Arizona Republic titled Read fine print when buying ID-theft protection...
May 22, 2022
The Hackers Are Coming: Members Fears Are Escalating
Republished from California Nevada Credit Union League dated April 25, 2022. By James McCabe. Over the past few years, the increased risk...
Mar 30, 2022
Identity Theft Losses Totaled $52 Billion Affecting 42 million U.S. Adults
The just released 2022 Javelin Strategy Annual Identity Fraud Study found that identity theft and fraud losses totaled $52 billion and...
Feb 24, 2022
2022 FTC Report: Identity Theft Continues to Be a Monumental Problem
Last month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report stating “about one fourth of all fraud losses reported to the FTC stem...
Jan 26, 2022
Hackers are coming after you in 2022
Two years ago I wrote an article asking the question Is Your Digital Identity Safe? Two days ago I read an Infosecurity Magazine article...
Oct 14, 2021
What’s Scaring Your Credit Union’s Members & How Can You Help?
Republished from CU Times dated October 15, 2021. By James McCabe and Mark Pribish. Credit Union executives and risk management teams...
Feb 16, 2021
Member Awareness: It's "Tax Fraud” Time of Year…Will CU’s Sound the Alarm and Offer Protection?
As if the COVID-19 pandemic and its ramifications haven't given members enough to worry about, it is now the time of year when criminals...
Oct 18, 2020
ID Theft & Fraud Spreading as Fast as COVID19….What Can CU’s Do for Members?
Republished from CU Times dated October 19, 2020. By James McCabe. Over the past nine months, our country has experienced an...
Sep 9, 2020
The Increased Vulnerability for Fraud, Scams, and ID Theft Attacks on Students
It is that time of year when students' vulnerability for ID theft attacks goes up exponentially as they head back to school. And this...
Aug 5, 2019
What is it Worth to Protect Your Identity?
Over the past couple of years there has been an average of 15 million or more people attacked by an ID theft or fraud event in the United...
Oct 10, 2018
Synthetic Fraud Can Haunt Credit Unions
Republished from CCUL's CU Weekly dated September 10, 2018. By James McCabe. Synthetic identity theft is a growing threat to credit...
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