I swear someone's logging into my Google Gmail account and reading my email. I know it should be impossible, but I dunno. Is there some way to check and see if that's happening?...

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After two of my friends had information stolen from them through public wireless networks, I'm completely paranoid. Is there some way to connect to Google's Gmail service securely?...

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Seems like not a week goes by without some sort of story in the paper about a computer security breech, identity theft, or scams or other rip-offs. It's enough to make one avoid shopping online, except that it's so darn...

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Dave, I know that identity theft is a problem, but someone told me the other day that there are five major kinds of Identity theft. Then they got busy with something, and it left me confused. Isn’t identity theft just...

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I am anxious that I've been a victim of identity fraud: I just got an email from some mortgage broker indicating that I'd been approved for a refinance of our home, but I didn't apply for anything like that! I...

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Hey Dave! How does secure SSL actually work and if all these sites are using this much vaunted https/SSL security, how come they still get customer data ripped off?...

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Okay, I'm a bit puzzled. I just got an email from a Web site I've never heard of before asking me for my birthday so my "friend" can complete "their horoscope", but I have no idea who "they" are. Is...

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