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Privacy and security and never-ending challenges, and ones where there are no simple solutions or fixes. Rather than seeking a mythical "easy button" for privacy and security, we must work to create a culture of privacy and security. This culture is built upon strong policy, wise deployment of technology, education and awareness, and ensuring accountability. Privacy and security are truly everybody's business.
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Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee. It invited 50 people from around the world to surf without spam filters. The experiment found that the US still tops the global spam league. Participants in the US received a total of 23,233 spam e-mails during the course of the experiment compared to 15,856 for the second most spammed country - Brazil.
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The Washington Post has a regular blog called Security Fix, this post lists several tools to help protect Web sites from various types of attacks.
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You may have seen the ads with the catchy jingles, but AnnualCreditReport.com is the site to order your free credit report from each credit reporting agency, and do so without subscribing to any other services.
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