Learn How to Protect Your Security
The goal of our coalition is to ensure the best technologies are available to help you to protect yourself and your family. Additionally, knowing the critical steps to take to secure your personal information and keep it private will make all the difference.
- Protect your personal information. It’s valuable.
- Know who you are dealing with.
- Use security software that automatically updates.
- Keep your operating system and Web browser up-to-date, and learn more about their security features.
- Keep your passwords safe secure and strong.
- Back up important files.
- Know who to call when you’re under attack or if you’ve been hacked.
- Join the Secure ID Coalition.
(From onguardonline.com)
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Secure News to Know
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Secure ID Coalition Applauds Introduction of Medicare Common Access Card Act
The Medicare program is plagued with fraud, estimated by the Department of Justice to be $60 billion a year. Yesterday Senator Mark Kirk (R- IL) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced The Medicare Common Access Card Act, a bill to prevent fraud before it happens, saving taxpayers billions.
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Rx For Frustration: Medicare Fraud In the News (Again)
Ohio, Chicago, Maine, Miami, Mississippi, and Detroit newspapers all published similar stories last week about blatant Medicare scams that make you wonder why the country’s not deeper in debt.
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VISA to Move the US to EMV
This morning VISA announced plans to incentivize the adoption of more secure payments in the United States, specifically EMV. By adopting the international EMV standard, VISA is promoting both increased security and interoperability. To read more, please see VISA’s announcement.
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Knowing who you are; could save the US billions
At the March 30, 2011 Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and other Agencies held a hearing on the FY 2012 Health and Human Services (HHS) Budget, Senator Kirk (R- IL) questioned HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the outdated Medicare Card issued to America’s seniors. In a system that is riddled with fraud, waste and abuse, Sen. Kirk suggested that knowing who is receiving services and who is providing them could significantly help reduce the amount of fraud in Medicare - currently estimated b y the Department of Justice to be $60 billion per year. Read more...