• Acting Victorian Privacy Commissioner offers ID theft test

  To coincide with Privacy Awareness Week, Acting Victorian Privacy Commissioner David Watts has launched an online identity theft test.

• IRS uncorks Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013

  The Internal Revenue Service today reminded taxpayers that there are plenty of scam artists and cybercriminals that want your money.

• Financial, health data dumped in Sydney rubbish bins

  Some Sydney bank branches, lawyers' and doctors' offices have been found guilty of not properly disposing of personal information in rubbish bins which could be used by criminals for the purposes of fraud or identity theft following a private investigation.

• AFP survey combats identity theft

  The minister for home affairs and justice, Brendan O’Connor, has launched an online survey that lets people test how vulnerable they are identity crime and provides measures to help protect them from identity fraudsters and scammers. The launch coincides with National Identity Fraud Awareness Week.

• AusCERT 2011: Identity theft no joke for Welsh comedian

  As a professional comedian Bennett Arron gets paid to see the funny side of things, but a run-in with identity thieves in the 1990s had him far from laughing.

• Three years undercover with the identity thieves

  Salesmen and parents know the technique well. It's called the takeaway, and as far as Keith Mularski is concerned, it's the reason he kept his job as administrator of online fraud site DarkMarket.

Whitepapers about identity theft

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  Proof Positive: Extended Validation SSL Increases online Sales and Transactions

  This white paper highlights how companies have increased online transactions, reduced abandoned shopping carts, and converted more visitors to members and more browsers to purchasers.