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Parenting Pointers: Synthetic Identity Theft

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Children are especially vulnerable to a new form of identity theft – synthetic – which now makes up 85 percent of cases and means thieves use combinations of real and fake information to take out loans, get credit cards, purchase cars, collect unemployment, and much more. And it’s grown 233 percent over five years.

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Stay Organized To Keep Your Information Secure

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

This makes it easy for cybercriminals to hack into such systems because they know almost all the default settings. Make sure your new passwords have a combination of lower and upper case letters, symbols, and numbers. This makes it harder for a hacker to make sense of such data in the event of a data breach. Encrypt Data.

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Organizing Your Computer

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

They are using up memory and possibly making your computer move slowly. I also don’t tend to delete bad pictures off of my camera until they are on my computer, which makes it so they accumulate quickly. They make things easy to find and they can help with cleaning up your computer to be more streamlined. Why keep them?

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