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1. Have you or someone you know, experienced computer problems caused by virus? What did the virus do? Where do you think you got it from? How did you fix the problem? What was the cost to you in time, trouble, and stress?

2. Identity theft has quickly become the most common, expensive, and pervasive crime in the United States. The identities of more than 15 million U.S. citizens are stolen each year, with financial losses exceeding $ 50 billion. The growth of organized crime can be attributed to the massive amounts of data collection along with the increased cleverness of professional identity thieves. Starting with individually tailored phishing scams, increasingly successful corporate and government databases hackings, and complex networks of botnets (a group of infected computers controlled by a hacker, the botmaster) that hijack millions of computers without a trace, we must wake up to this ever-increasing threat to all Americans.

You have the responsibility to protect yourself from data theft. Visit the Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Information Identity Theft website at https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0014- identity-theft and review what you can do today to protect your identity and how you can ensure that your personal information is safe [list 4-5 steps].