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    result in termination regardless when it is discovered post-hire. In order to ensure the security of the organization, the same risk-management steps have to be applied to vendors and contingent workers such as independent contractors and temps. Some additional tools regarding identification and prevention of insider threat that can be used involve mental health assessments, psychological testing, physical security, supervisor and co-worker training to ensure capability in identifying red flags, identification

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         There is currently a huge growing number of criminals that now do greater and more widespread damage to their victims without ever meeting them. Identity theft surfaced in the early 1990s and turned peoples everyday transactions into a data gathering game. Bits of personal information such as bankcards, credit card accounts, income, social security numbers or just someone name, address, and phone numbers are now collected and could be used illegally by these individuals

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    come new challenges. One of those new challenges is identity theft. Identity theft can happen through the internet, ATM, emails, or even a phone. Identity theft can happen when any person(s) takes an individual’s information, such as their Social Security number, or even banking information for financial gain. “Close to 100 million Americans have their personal information placed at risk of theft each year when records in databases are lost, stolen or accessed by unauthorized individuals” (Information

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    terrorism, and cybercrime as some of the largest threats to the security of the national and international community. (Popović, 2013) With this ‘fifth battleground’ of the cyberspace thrown into the international battlegrounds of old, its effectiveness and effect on the both the modern state and the international bodies of the world, posing the question of how will this increased accessibility to the cyberspace will affect national security in the coming years? As to why this issue of cyberspace is important

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    Prevent Identity Theft

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    The IRS does not initiate contact with taxpayers by email or social media to request personal or financial information. If you receive a scam email claiming to be from the IRS, forward the email to phishing@irs.gov. • An unexpected phone call from someone claiming to be an IRS agent, either threatening you with arrest

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    Social Security Threats

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    past years, social media has been immensely popular such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and WhatsApp. In the beginning of the internet age, the concern of internet safety was to block inappropriate content, but now it also about saving people from being a victim of the dangerous hackers and fake scams. Follow these guidelines to help stay away from these dangerous. When an anonymous individual acquires one's personal data, such as Social Security number or driver's license number or credit card

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    would dumpster dive to look for important documents to sell or keep for themselves. Identity theft isn’t always someone using your social security number, it also is your individualism becoming less and less unique. It turns out that identity theft has become a bigger problem than ever, not only with the introduction of the internet but also the living and thriving social and cultural aspects of groups of identity thieves, add in the many immigrants moving into the United States, there we have built

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    information. Identity thieves do not only use scams, they use fake identification, your checkbook, or anything that has sensitive information valuable for them to steal your identity. Identity theft has many negative affects such as the financial impact, social, and even emotional effects. Identity thieves are like vampires but instead of sucking your blood they suck up all of your money. “Bank officials found that in 5 days from the theft to when the missing checkbook was reported more than 3000 dollars

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    like a four digit number code or identifier code like a telephone number. This process takes about two to five minutes. To complete a typical transaction, the customer swipes a finger, enters a PIN and selects a payment source. Why biometric payment In order to get consumers and merchants to use biometric payment there has to be benefits in using it. With identity theft and fraudulent activity increasing, biometric-based solutions can provide increased security and confidentiality

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    A handgun’s sole purpose is to kill a human being. Manipulating that power would lead to immense consequences, if the gun were to fall into the hands of an individual who is not in their right mind. Today, Nevada stands as the eighth state that enforces background checks on gun sales or transfers, through the work of Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s Question 1 hypostatized Stephen Jay Gould’s article, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaur” by illustrating the pseudoscience behind establishing

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