Identity Fraud
This is still a problem in 2017 and estimating to continue as long as the popularity if Social media continues to rise. Have you ever been prompted to sign-in a website with you Facebook, or G+ credentials? Sure we all have right? Single sign-on has made login into multiple servers across multiple platforms easy for people to navigate internal and external networks.
According to Wikipedia Social single sign-on using existing information from a social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+, to sign into a third party website instead of creating a new login account specifically for that website. If another person has you social sign-in credential just think about the numbers of ways private information could be used to set up commercial acounts on websites like Amazon, or Ebay.
How to protect yourself?
- Use the least amount of information when registering on websites
- use login names instead of E-mail addresses
- never link an social account to sign-in to another website
- when available set the highest level of security for social sites
- share information only to friends and family on social media and not public
- Read and understand website privacy and security policies
- never give out you social security number (SSN)
- verify the identity of callers asking to verify your identity based on your date of birth
These are jus a few suggestion to prevent identity theft. The main idea is to keep what is private private. Store the least amount of personal information electronically as possible.
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