A shredder is an essential tool to properly dispose of all the sensitive paperwork used for completing your tax return. Identity theft impacted 8.1 million American in 2007. With those kind of staggering numbers, anything you can do to help protect your identity is a good thing.
This week, we are giving away paper shredders from Fellowes. Three lucky Bizzia readers will win the PS-79Ci. These shredders retail for approximately $200 each.
The Fellowes’ PS-79Ci maintains cross-cut capabilities, which ensures that paper documents are nearly impossible for identity thieves to piece back together. It also features 100 percent Jam Proof technology that …read more

According to the twitter and newspeak I hear, spammers and scammers are getting evermore present even after the biggest spammer of all time was arrested. One has to use firefox to try and weed some of them out. If you belong to google groups, yahoo, facebook or where-ever, and lets face it, most of us do, you’ll get scam mail, lots of it.
So how do you protect yourself? Because people really do fall prey to these scams.
Number 1 rule  
Banks do not contact you by e mail. If you bank on-line, you have a password to enter the system and that’s part of your security, and …read more

Just like there is no crying in baseball, there are no refunds in digital gold currency. Here is some helpful advice from e-gold on keeping your account safe.

More on the new value transfer/digital currency/payment system which is ‘the Loom System.’

Kena Kai offers wallets and other protective gear to keep your RFID cards from broadcasting personal information. This is the new age of data information and you should carefully look into protecting yourself.

Find out some of the differences between the reality of fraud and how the public views it. You might be surprised.

The FSA reports that the UK financial services sector has experienced an 8000% increase in phishing scams in the past two years.

No question about it, in the coming year or two doing financial business on the Internet will be defined by the payment system’s security protection. By 2008, the Tower Group predicts that 44% of all retail transactions will be virtual (without the customer present) and the magnetic stripe may be nearing the end of its card life.