Hack Proofing Your Identity. In the Information Age Protect by Teri Bidwell, Michael Cross and Ryan Russell (Auth.)

By Teri Bidwell, Michael Cross and Ryan Russell (Auth.)

Content material:
Acknowledgments

, Page v
Author

, Page vii
Technical Editor and Contributor

, Page vii
Technical Reviewer

, Page viii
Foreword

, Pages xix-xxii
Chapter 1 - id robbery: Are You At Risk?

, Pages 1-42
Chapter 2 - conserving Your not easy Drive

, Pages 43-102
Chapter three - maintaining Your email Private

, Pages 103-150
Chapter four - Self safety at the Web

, Pages 151-186
Chapter five - Connecting to the web Safely

, Pages 187-237
Chapter 6 - Are your children placing You at Risk?

, Pages 239-270
Chapter 7 - for those who develop into a Victim

, Pages 271-303
Chapter eight - Configuring Your Browser and Firewall

, Pages 305-356
Index

, Pages 357-370

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F i g u r e 2 . 4 ICQ Details What Are You Protecting? You might not be interested in preventing others from viewing your weekly grocery list, but you would want to keep the information contained in your tax return private. By determining what it is you want to protect, you'll be able to determine the level of security needed to keep information safe. As mentioned in the previous section, by organizing your personal fries together in a single directory, you will be better able to manage them. Once you've decided on the files you want to protect, you can then determine the level of protection required.

Trojan Horse programs (which we'll discuss later in this chapter) and other malicious programs can access such information without your knowing. Such programs might transmit your information to an identity thief through e-mail, transmit it to a Web site, or provide other methods (such as creating a backdoor to access your system) so a hacker can access the information directly. Because of the detailed information that might exist in the Registry, it's important that you control the level of information that's added to it.

InfoUSA purchases directory data from local telephone companies, and then resells the data to online services. If your phone number isn't listed with the telephone company, it probably isn't listed with infoUSA either. However, accidents can happen. com Identity Theft: Are You At Risk? 9 Chapter 1 information from their databases if you find it there. Don't forget to perform an e-mail search in addition to a phone number search, if the site offers it. com) provides additional personal information about you to the general public for a small fee.

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