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Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the world. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), identity theft is the top concern of people contacting the agency, and has now passed drug trafficking as the number-one crime in the world, affecting up to 10 million victims a year, costing the United States 50 billion dollars a year on average. Much of this can be reduced by leveraging some very practical security with regards to our Internet browsers.
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© 2010 Charles Edge, William Barker, Beau Hunter, and Gene Sullivan
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Edge, C., Barker, W., Hunter, B., Sullivan, G. (2010). Securing Web Browsers and E-mail. In: Enterprise Mac Security. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2731-1_7
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