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IT forensics: guilty until proven innocent

31 Dec 2007|Feature|Add your comment

When identity theft involves the use of your credit card on the internet for illegal purposes, your computer will be seized and examined, and the onus will be on you to prove fraud, as Chris Magee explains

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