When you are serious about making your web marketing strategy work for you (I hope you are)! A great deal of your time, effort, and money is usually involved in its application.

As more and more Americans are becoming victims of identity theft, many employers are increasing their level of security to protect their employees.

A recent Gartner study claims ATM and debit card fraud cost $2.75 billion in losses last year.

Every now and then you read about identity theft. I am not talking about the theft of your personal identity, sure that happens too, I am talking about the theft of a website’s identity. The big question is: What should you do if somebody with deeper pockets and more push creates a website similar to yours, stealing your limelight, and your hard earned visitors? Let me answer your question from my own experience.

Banks and credit card companies have claimed they could maintain data security without government legislation.

It seems everyone who has a website is worried about having their copyright violated by web content thieves. But are web content copyright violations really such a big problem?

Myth 1. Web Content Theft & Other Internet Copyright Violations Are Hard to Pursue.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Right now in the video game world, not much else needs to be said does it? This game is attracting more attention and more flack than any game certainly in recent years. How often do you get Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum on the same side? That should tell you something.

She’s a step closer to that village-the village made up of people who know what’s best for you and your children. Even better for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, she’ll get both parties to join her. The glue that holds them together-outrage about a video game.

Senator Clinton is demanding the Federal Trade Commission look into charges the racy computer game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas contains sexually graphic footage and activities in the game .

Oh, come on. Who wouldn’t believe a company that named itself “Rockstar” and produced one of the most graphically violent thugged out gangster video games ever? Would they lie to you? I don’t think so.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas continues to catch a lot of heat over the booty call the hero pays to his ol’ lady in the game. Normally, users get to hear the action, with the mod causing all the trouble; users get to see the soft-core action. That’s what’s got Rockstar Games in the middle of this hot coffee controversy.

The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series of computer games thrives on controversy and they’ve got themselves a stolen car full this time. Rockstar Games, the game’s manufacturer may have more on their plate than they can handle.

St. Petersburg police charge a 41 year-old man with unauthorized access to a computer network.

Many search industry observers see click fraud as the number one threat to the growth of the Internet economy. An even greater threat has emerged one that not only places the entire infrastructure of the Internet at risk, it also threatens non-Net users.

Javelin Strategy & Research released the results of a recent study done in conjunction with the Better Business Bureau on ID Theft. The report, titled “Phishing: Consumer Awareness and Behavior.” The report concentrates on the action financial institutions must take to protect their customers from phishing scams.

Saturday, MasterCard blamed a vendor of ALL credit card providers called CardSystems Solutions, Inc., a third-party processor of payment card data, as the source of loss of 40 million consumers credit card information.

The folks at MasterCard have brought the public some brilliant and entertaining commercial over the years. It’s even become a point of pop culture as every does their spin on the “priceless” theme they’ve had in place. MasterCard announced their security was compromised in the form of 40 million customers who’re now open to ID theft from MasterCard. Priceless isn’t the word I’d use for this one.

Two laptops containing Motorola employee information were stolen from a Chicago office of services provider Affiliated Computer Services over the Memorial Day weekend.

I received an e-mail message from “Paypal” not too long ago. The e-mail stated that PayPal needed me to update and verify my security information for their database. I didn’t.

Paul has come up with a cool way to put off those wanting to rip off your content by republishing your full RSS feed -