Smarten Up. Increase Your Information Security Vocabulary
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a...
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a...
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Earlier this week, an IT employee was indicted for stealing the identities of 150 of...
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make...
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it...
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Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a...
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano The National Foundation for Credit Counselors, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a...
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano During National Protect Your Identity Week we will be taking a fundamental approach to the...
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano Imagine if someone used your name and image, or the name and logo of a...
See us at the the Identity Theft Protection Blog and the 2009 National Protect Your Identity Week. In order to...
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| bm_sz | 4 hours | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions |
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| cf_use_ob | past | Cloudflare sets this cookie to improve page load times and to disallow any security restrictions based on the visitor's IP address. |
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| connect.sid | 1 month | This cookie is used for authentication and for secure log-in. It registers the log-in information. |
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| language | session | This cookie is used to store the language preference of the user. |
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| UserMatchHistory | 1 month | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. |
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| AWSELBCORS | 20 minutes | This cookie is used by Elastic Load Balancing from Amazon Web Services to effectively balance load on the servers. |
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| _gcl_au | 3 months | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. |
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| uid | 1 year | This is a Google UserID cookie that tracks users across various website segments. |
| vuid | 2 years | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos to the website. |
| WMF-Last-Access | 1 month 21 hours 5 minutes | This cookie is used to calculate unique devices accessing the website. |
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| _fbp | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website. |
| _pxhd | past | Used by Zoominfo to enhance customer data. |
| fr | 3 months | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| IDE | 1 year 24 days | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. |
| test_cookie | 15 minutes | The test_cookie is set by doubleclick.net and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 5 months 27 days | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-device-id | never | YouTube sets this cookie to store the video preferences of the user using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | never | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::requests | never | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
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| geo_info | 1 year | No description available. |
| GoogleAdServingTest | session | No description |
| li_gc | 2 years | No description |
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| loom_anon_comment | session | No description available. |
| loom_referral_video | session | No description |
| mkjs_group_id | never | No description available. |
| mkjs_user_id | never | No description available. |
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