Net Nanny is a powerful internet filtering tool that allows you to determine what Internet content enters your home. It comes with maximum protection and pre-set monitoring functions, which you can easily customize to meet your family’s unique needs. Net Nanny can block not only pornography, but hate sites, questionable chat rooms and other dangers [...]
ID Shepherd announces our new Parent-Teen Driving Contract. Each year over 4,000 teens are killed and about 355,000 are injured in car crashes. Statistics show that 16-year-old drivers have crash rates that are almost two times greater than 18 to19-year-old drivers and four times the risk of older drivers. At ID Shepherd those statics really [...]
Today danger comes from many places; often from the very products we purchase and use daily. We want to provide you with the latest information on product alerts and recalls. Through this website, you can view updated FDA Alerts, Food Recalls, Mislabeled Products, which could be life-threatening if an allergic reaction were to occur, Medicine [...]
Email – sometimes we love it and sometimes we hate it – especially when we get email that we don’t want from advertisers. It takes up space on our computers and takes up our time to get rid of it properly. ID Shepherd has one solution for you. We have done the research on email [...]
As an member of ID Shepherd, you now have access to our exclusive list of selected service providers. The majority of our Member Benefits are Free to use and membership in ID Shepherd is Free. Sign up below. With our Free Member Benefit Service you will be able to: Activate Your Credit Monitoring Service View [...]
Junk Mail. Catalogs, magazine offers, subscription offers, periodicals, donation requests and the list just keeps on going. Seems like now every trip to the mailbox requires you to take a shopping bag with you just to contain all the mail. Then what do you do with most of it? Throw it in the trash. Well, [...]
One of the most important tools you have in fighting identity theft is by monitoring and reviewing your Credit Report. Through our recommended service provider, you may request your free credit report online, by phone or through the mail. If you request your Free Credit Report online, it is available immediately for viewing upon authentication [...]
Are You Getting Telemarketing Calls You Don’t Want? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a national database regristry to give Americans a choice about getting telemarketing calls at home and on their mobile phones. And according to a recent Harris Interactive poll,92 percent of people who reported placing their phone number on the registry said [...]
Targeted phishing employs social engineering techniques—using the recipient’s name and perhaps other specific information such as an entity with which they do business, thus making the email look legitimate. The goal is to obtain your personal information, which they could use to commit account takeover or identity theft.
Valiena Allison got a call from her bank one morning in 2010 regarding a wire transfer from her company’s account. She told the bank manager she hadn’t approved any such wire transfer. What she later found out was that the problem was, that her computer had. Allison is the CEO of Sterling Heights, Michigan-based Experi-Metal [...]
7/15/2011 – DeKalb Medical recently discovered that personal information of patients had been stolen from their Hillandale, Ga. facility. DeKalb has notified 7,500 former patients who may have been affected by the theft and has offered these patients credit monitoring and identity theft counseling and restoration services free of charge.
July 15, 2011 – A bankruptcy auction of the Kitchen Place in downtown Norfolk, VA provided a lot more than was expected by the person that purchased a couple of what they thought were empty filing cabinets. When the filing cabinets were opened they contained records of past customers of
July 20, 2011 – Another incident where an employer has allowed employee’s personal data to be exposed on the internet. The Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington alerted approximately 20,000 current and former employees that their personal information, which included Social Security numbers, was accidentally accessible on the Internet for
While there is no guaranteed strategy to avoid identity theft, you can minimize your risks and guard your personal information by following these ten basic steps.
While social networking (SN) is a great way to connect with others, it poses numerous hazards to participants of all ages. Despite the fact that technology is constantly changing, the following recommendations should help you identify and reduce your risks.
With millions of smartphones shipping every month, the phone has surpassed the PC as the true personal computer. Just like PCs, mobile phones now face more threats than ever. Plus, your mobile phone now contains all sorts of personal information about you from your contacts, photos and financial information. Your phone is your lifeline and [...]
We often get the question, “What’s the difference between a credit score and a credit report?”. There is a significant difference between the two and it’s important that you know the difference and understand what each can do for you and your family. Failing to understand your credit score and how it works can put [...]
Everything is bigger in Texas, right? A data breach that is believed to be the most extensive in Texas history, and one of the largest in the United States was recently announced. Personal information for over 3.5 million state employees was being stored on a publicly available server of the
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