Today Pacific Storage Company joined the growing list of Shred Nations members. Pacific Storage offers certified shredding and secure records storage throughout northern California. They have offices in Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto,
San Jose, Vallejo and Merced.

Today Shrarp Shred joined the Shred Nations network of secure shreddding. Sharp Shred provides mobile shredding in central Ohio.

Shred-Pro has expanded service in the west to the beautiful city of Phoenix, Arizona. Operations began on December 1, 2005 with NAID AAA Certification effective on January 17, 2006. They currently offer mobile shredding and drop-off shredding services.

Secure Eco Shred, a Farmington, MI paper shredding company has begun using biodiesel fuel in its mobile shredding trucks.

"Biodiesel is a proven alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuel," said Steve Kalapos, president of Secure Eco Shred. "It is safe, biodegradable and reduces toxic pollutants such as soot, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and other air toxins.

Blends of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel can be used in unmodified diesel engines, and its high lubricity helps the engine run smoother, quieter and more efficiently, Kalapos said.

Today Doc Shredding Corp became the newest member of the Shred Nations network of secure shredding contractors. Doc Shredding provides mobile shredding service to the Boston area.

Monster.com, the nation's largest online job site, has more than 50 million resumes in its database and gets 50,000 new ones every day. Privacy experts say that makes it a magnet for identity thieves and con artists.

"The likelihood of a job site being victimized by fraudsters is almost 100 percent, because it is just too compelling," said Pam Dixon, founder of the advocacy group World Privacy Forum. "There is just so much information that a job site has access to that a fraudster would be interested in."

Job hunters need to stay a step ahead as well:

• Beware of employers who ask for background checks before offering you a job.
  
• Verify an employer's legitimacy. Call or visit its place of business.
  
• Limit the personal information on your online resume.
  

Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday.

The confidential information was on the back of paper used in wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers and retailers. As many as 9,000 bundles of the T&G, wrapped in paper containing subscribers' names and their confidential information, were distributed Sunday to 2,000 retailers and 390 carriers in the Worcester area, said Alfred S. Larkin Jr., spokesman for the Globe.

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Identity theft continues to plague consumers, topping the list of fraud complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission last year.

Yet studies have shown that most identity theft, including the most severe cases, has nothing to do with the Internet. In 2004, computer crimes accounted for only 11.6 percent of identity fraud in which the cause was known, according to a Better Business Bureau and Javelin Strategy & Research study. Half of those crimes stemmed from spyware, software that surreptitiously tracks users online.

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