Memorial Day is on the horizon and that means another tax season is becoming a distant memory. It also means it’s time to think about how many old tax records you have in storage and consider maybe turning it over for proper destruction. Maintaining records includes knowing what to keep and what to dispose. We…
Frequenters of the HV Shred Blog know that a favorite source for our blog is the OnGuard Online Blog posted by the Federal Trade Commission–the government agency charged with protecting consumers. A recent post by Consumer Education Specialist Aditi Jhaveri indicated last Thursday was Password Day! Some good reasons to update passwords regularly: Updating your…
A valuable resource we have found is the The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center Internet Crime Complaint A recent posting focused on Defending Against Hacktivism: While eliminating your exposure in the current digital age is nearly impossible,…
Earth Day 2015 is officially Wednesday, April 22nd. We are happy to report that HV Shred in on a record recycling pace in 2015. To date, we have shred and recycled enough paper to protect nearly 5000 trees and nearly 900 cubic yards of landfill. To celebrate Earth Month, our shred event season began April…
Today’s blog is some “kind of” good news in the world of Identity Theft— according to a study released recently by Javelin Strategy & Research, despite a series of large-scale data breaches over the past two years, identity theft fell for the second consecutive year in a row in the U.S. Roughly 12.7 million Americans…
Sitting around the Seder table at this year’s Passover Seder telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt and the liberation of the Jews from the tyrant Pharaoh made me think about the small ways in which our on-site shredding service is also a liberation. Not on biblical proportions–but on-site shredding service does free businesses…
This past Saturday was Earth Hour–a celebration to bring awareness to the limited resources and the preciousness of our home planet–Earth. Earth Hour is a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event is held worldwide annually encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their…
Over the course of the 2014 events in conjunction with the Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union (HVFCU), Walden Federal Savings (Now Hometown Bank of the Hudson Valley), Wallkill Valley Federal Savings, Hudson Heritage Federal Credit Union, and Mid Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union we are thrilled to have helped community members recycle over 50 tons…
Frequenters of the HV Shred blog know that we often use this space to share valuable information we find on OnGuardOnline, the FTC blog designed to share information for consumer protection. A recent post by Consumer Education Specialist Amy Hebert caught our attention as worthy of sharing. Hebert writes about a new scam email that…
Robocalls are not just annoying—they are also costing our economy money through lost productivity as well as some falling to the scams. Aiming to tap into the private business brain trust, the FTC is returning to DEF CON with a new robocall challenge. Zapping Rachel, the FTC’s 2014 contest, challenged security experts to build tools…