WhiteCanyon Press Library

Learn what hackers may find on your computer, how that information can be used to steal your identity, and how WhiteCanyon can help protect you.

Identity Theft Articles

• Newly Proposed Identity Theft Bill - PC Magazine
  With the rash of major identity theft incidents in the recent past, a new bill is being proposed to help combat the epidemic.


• Discarded Computers Feature Story - Inside Edition
  Discarded computers, containing Social Security and tax information easily found in thrift shops, even town dumps


• Identity Theft Statistics - USA Today
  Identity theft statistics now show that one in four U.S. households has been a victim of identity theft in the past five years


• Identity Theft Prevention Techniques - KSL
  This identity theft prevention article discusses identity theft with a convicted check fraud felon.


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Erase Your Hard Drive

• Microsoft Sets Sail Against Pirates - New York Times
  Most experts suggest that computer users who need to securely and permanently erase data from a hard drive (the Pentagon, for instance) either physically destroy the drive or use a software utility to thoroughly overwrite all its information.


• Hard Drives Exposed - PC World
  Properly sanitize a hard drive before giving away or reselling a computer requires only a small investment of time and an inexpensive disk-erasing tool


• Permanently Erase Deleted Files - Law Enforcement Technology Magazine
  How hard is it to steal and use someone's personal identity? Find out how deleted files can expose you to fraud...


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Getting Rid of Your Old Computer?

• Erased Hard Drives Can Bite You - USA Today
  Imagine this chilling scenario: You buy a new PC and donate the old one to charity, knowing you've protected your privacy by deleting all your old files...Yet you later discover you're a victim of identity theft


• Harvesting Old Hard Drives - The Associated Press
  So, you think you have cleaned all your personal files from that old computer hard drive you are selling? A pair of MIT graduate students suggests you think again


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WhiteCanyon Software Product Reviews

• Spyware Doctor Selected "Best Of the Year" - ColdFusion
  Product Reviewed - Spyware Doctor


• Deleted But Not Gone - New York Times
  Product Reviewed - WipeDrive


• Don't Just Delete It - Smart Computing
  Product Reviewed - WipeDrive


• Cool Tools - The Latest From the Lab - NetworkWorldFusion
  Product Reviewed - SecureClean


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