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This report should make consumers more diligent about their credit information.

Despite increased consumer awareness, the identity theft business is alive and well, according to Eric Sites, a research engineer at Sunbelt. Sites is one of the leading authorities on the Cool Web Search family of malware, and has spent the past few months researching a ring of identity theft Trojans. In an interview for my new podcast, OnSecurity, Eric said that identity thieves may only be limited by their ability to sift through the mountain of data they are harvesting. In just one example, he recently downloaded more than 80 Gbytes of stolen data that had been aggregated from one variant of an identity theft trojan.

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