Enterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Chapter 7. Securing Web Browsers and E-mail

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.

One of the biggest battlegrounds in the fight against identity theft is your computer. We commonly use computers to communicate with the outside world using cell phones, web browsers, instant messaging software, and e-mail; all technologies that ...