Identity theft is one of the fastest rising Internet crimes. But what is it and how can you guard yourself against being a victim?
Today’s online databases store vast amounts of personal, often financially related information on publicly accessible computers. The technology has been around for decades, but identity theft has become a serious problem only [...]

In an age where identity and credit card theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S. - thanks to still-shaky Internet security and the ease of finding information in your trash - simple shredding of paper into 6mm (1/4 inch) strips may not do the job.
There’s always a balancing act to be performed between [...]

The National Crime Prevention Council and other agencies provide lots of information that help you protect your confidential information. Some of the types they identify are obvious, but others may contain data you didn’t realize could lead to identity theft and online financial fraud.
Credit card slips are an obvious target for identity thieves. Much of [...]

Shredding machines come in as many types as there are industrial designers. Strip or cross-cut? Low volume or industrial capacity? Bag or no bag? Self-maintaining or oil? Sorting out all these choices can be like… well, reassembling shredded documents.
On the low end of the price and function scale are personal strip-cutters. You feed in sheets [...]

The short answer is: shredding is doing great! Today there are dozens of methods and hundreds of devices to make information disposal easy and convenient. Which is good news, because the need for shredding is greater than ever. Medical document handling, hard-to-erase hard drives, identity theft, changing legal requirements and many other issues make shredding [...]

Medical records represent an interesting case for those who shred documents to protect information. Handling them isn’t as straightforward as it seems.
Many financial documents are held for seven years or more in order to satisfy tax requirements. Yet for most individuals, there’s no law mandating the type or period of documents that are retained.
Though a [...]

Most businesses focus on creation. They manufacture, they build, they repair. But some offer value for their customers by destroying.
In an age when identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S. - thanks to the Internet, online banking, easy access to credit card numbers and so forth - one of the fastest rising [...]

Shredding is a good idea. It helps protect important information. In many cases that good idea is encouraged by legal regulations. Many different governments and types of businesses are required to protect information and shredding is one of the most efficient and cost-effective ways to do that.
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) passed a regulation called [...]

Shredding helps protect your information by making documents, CDs, hard drives and other storage media unusable by unauthorized viewers. But it has other advantages as well. Two of those are the benefits it provides by lowering costs and preserving the environment.
Recycling helps keep the cost of paper products lower than it otherwise might be in [...]

Shredders have recently gotten a whole lot more popularity. Why is that? In two words: identity theft.
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S. And what is worse for homeowners and small businesses is that, with recent court decisions and legislation, sometimes you can be held at fault along with the thief.
There’s now [...]