Database data loss
byPeople often share their credit card anxiety with me. They’re afraid their cards will be lost or stolen and huge bills will be run…
People often share their credit card anxiety with me. They’re afraid their cards will be lost or stolen and huge bills will be run…
irst there was skimming, now there’s shimming,” says Kim Thomas, former Las Vegas Metro Detective, now an international authority on forgery. Information on this…
Breaking news from Las Vegas Metro’s Kim Thomas, the fraud cop featured in my story on credit card skimmers hidden in gas pumps. Detective…
If you read this blog, you’re probably already security-conscious. But this reminder is worth repeating. Don’t trust anyone. Sorry. It’s a shame that’s what…
Anna Bernanke hung her purse on the back of a chair at Starbucks. It was stolen and, soon after, she and Ben became victims…
Skimmers, officially called magnetic card readers, capture the data on a card’s magnetic strip. Exactly what information is that? Credit and debit cards have…
…¢ Identity theft is now the number one crime in the world. …¢ Las Vegas is number one in the U.S. for ID theft;…
A little background, as reference for my next post: A skimmer is a battery-operated device smaller than a deck of cards with a slot…
A former mortgage broker put 40 boxes of customers’ personal information into a Las Vegas dumpster. It was December 2006, but we all knew…
Four days away from an international trip and Bob and I have no passports. Scary. They were perfectly good and valid still for five…