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Evidence is showing that RFID skimming is a real threat to the privacy and security of credit cards and passports.
Not only is there a threat to using the information on the card to transact but there is also the threat of having your identity known. You are able to pick up a person’s name, expiration date of the card as well as the card number. Once the thief has access to your personal information they can falsely represent you when phoning up a credit or debit card company and can then enable a fraudulent (fake) transaction to take place because they will impersonate the true card holder.
There are mixed views about the true seriousness of the issue but there is agreement that the information on credit or debit cards (and for that matter passports) can be skimmed (electronically pick pocketed) and then used by the thief to buy things or to impersonate you. CBC investigations have proved that you can even read the information through the person’s wallet, pocket or handbag using the phones NCF antenna communication.
Studies have shown that there are ways and means of reading the information on the cards or passports. This can be done through a RFID scanner but also through an app that can be downloaded to a smart phone and easily accessible. With the app, you can read the information wirelessly which proves that you are at an even higher risk of advanced technology theft. According to the studies of David Skillicorn, the thief only has to be a few inches away in order to scan your card. Banks have stated that this is a huge financial risk.
Through a number of experiments, scientists have discovered that cards and passports can be protected by wrapping them up in tin foil. The aluminium will act...
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...FID scanners are inexpensive to manufacture and easy to organise. Not only can RFID scanners read credit cards but also passports.
Studies have shown that e-passports have fixed RFID chips which carry private and personal details. If the passport is scanned, the hacker is able to get a clear photograph of you as well as your signature. Research has proven that anything containing an RFID chip is a ‘key target’ for the hacker or thief to gain private information, they are susceptible to skimming.
Recent evidence has shown that the scanner is not able to read the data carried on your card or passport through a metal cover. The metal (aluminium tin foil for example) will block and interfere with the signal of the scanner. US passports are ahead on this threat and already have a metal layer covering the passports but UK and South African passports do not have a cover.
With Target handling the security breach as best as they could, investigators and the Department of Justice are trying to figure out how the security breach happened. Upon investigation, it is believed that “the data was obtained via software installed on machines that customers use to swipe magnetic strips on their cards when paying merchandise…”(Reuters, 2013. p.1). Even though investigators provided the theory above, they are still unsure of how the cyber criminals were able to take so many card numbers from almost all the Target stores. The investigators and feds are still looking into how and who stol...
The placement of implantable chips into patients for the purpose of accurately identifying patients and properly storing their medical history records has become a subject of a strong debate. Making sure patients are properly identified before a procedure and storing their health history records for future use has been difficult, if not impossible. The idea of being able to retrieve accurate patient’s medical history for a follow up care without relying on patient’s memory is a challenging task for many healthcare organizations. Many ideas and technologies have been introduced over the years to help solve this problem, but unfortunately the problem is still not fully resolved. There are still many errors in the healthcare due in part by improper record keeping and inaccurate patient identification. One idea that has being in discussion to eliminate these problems for good, is the introduction of a chip or radio frequency identification (RFID) technology implanted into human for the purpose storing medical data and accurately identify patients. VeriChip Corporation is currently the maker of this implantable RFID chip. They are the only corporation cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make this implantable radio frequency transponder system for humans for the purpose of identifying patients and storing their health history information. The chip was first developed for the use of radar systems by Scottish physicist, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt in 1935 just before World War II. (Roberti, 2007). This technology helps identify approaching planes of the enemy from mile away. Today, RFID has several uses. It is used for animal tracking. It is attached to merchandise in stores to prevent theft. It can be instal...
Identity theft is something that has been around for some time and it will not be gone anytime in the future. With many of the technology that comes out every year may pose a threat to our privacy and personal information. The harm that an identity theft can cause can be from minor to severe. As a result no one would want to become a victim of an identity theft crime because we would never know if we can even restore everything to its original state. For those that have a dependency on technology, be careful about what you do, what you put on the Internet, what information you give out, this is because it could come biting you back into the future.
The rapid growth in technology has been impressive over the past 20 years from television graphics and multi-purpose phones to world-wide connections. Unfortunately, the government is having trouble with this growth to protect the people from having their privacy violated due to the information being stored electronically. In “The Anonymity Experiment”, by Catherine Price, states how easily a person can be track and how personal can be lost. Also, in “Social Security and ID theft”, by Felipe Sorrells, states how social security numbers and personal identities can be stolen and how the government is trying to stop that theft. They both intertwine with technology and privacy though Price's article has a broad overview of that, while Sorrells's focus is mainly on social security number and identity thief part.
The idea is to allow any authorized person to verify the identity of a person. This would help in certain isolated situations, but would only have a limited effect on crime. The ID card contains, name, address, sex, photograph, fingerprints. That might also include place of employment, data of birth, perhaps religion, perhaps name of children, spouse, and health insurance coverage, may be credit records. Here I am talking about someone’s privacy. Since the ID card contains all the data about a person on it, then where is the privacy when the card is swiped? More high tech national id system would enable the federal government and its contractors to follow and...
Identity theft has been around for decades, so it’s nothing new. The only difference now is that the general public and the government are aware of the problem and actively pursuing strategies to combat it. However, identity theft wasn’t always about stealing someone’s credit card information or trying to extort large amounts of cash. It began mostly as a political tool to stuff ballot boxes or used by teenagers to obtain fake ID’s in order to get around laws that prohibited underage people from participating in certain activities such as drinking alcohol. In more recent years however, identity theft has become much more sophisticated and advanced. With the help of computers and advanced technology, identity theft, especially through the electronic world, has become easier and easier for criminals to acquire. (FBI) Most people who engage in the illegal act typically use it for economic gain, essentially to get rich. As any crimes go, identity theft is a nonviolent crime that is relatively easy to conceal which attracts more people to at...
There are several ways that identity theft thieves gain access to your personal information. Lost wallets, purses, stolen or lost mail used to be the main source of such private information. Mail, which sometime, includes bank statements, pre-approved credit cards, and tax papers are a source of a large amount of data. In recent years, many have been known to steal reco...
Where in 56 million payment cards were stolen and the issues related to the occurrence.
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Introduction In this paper, credit card theft, and how it happens will be discussed through statistics, facts from resources, and cases from Canadian courts. Credit card theft as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada is found in section 342, and states: “(1) Every person who steals a credit card, possesses, uses or traffics in a credit card of a forged or falsified credit card, knowing that it was obtained, made, or altered, or uses accredit card knowing that it has been revoked or cancelled.” ((CC 342 (1)) Subsection 3 of Section 342 deals with Unauthorized use of credit card data, and it is defined as “Every person who, fraudulently and without colour of right, possesses, uses, traffics in or permits another person to use credit card data,
In other words, analyzing the mistakes that people make when dealing with their information, can save someone from identity theft. Most identity thieves can get personal information just by simply looking in the trash. Your wallet can get stolen if not kept safely. Anything with information on it such as, credit cards, driver’s license, passports, and health insurance cards, can and will be useful to any identity thieves. Identity theft is a serious crime that can completely wreak your finances, credit history, and reputation.
Technology has made life so easy in this present generation to the extent that, we can do virtually almost with it. We can now use technology to protect our privacy and our identity from been stolen. People use passwords, biometrics and other forms of security measures to hide their possessions which include their identity, privacy and valuable properties. While technology has a great advantage when it comes to securing one’s privacy and identity, one of its disadvantages is that privacy identity thieves can still find a way to use technology to intrude people’s privacy and steal their identity.
Your identity is unsafe in more places than you may realize. Every store you walk in has the possibility or either having someone behind the counter, or someone hacking into a business from outside, readily waiting to steal your identity. Using your credit card in any store is never safe no matter what signs are posted around the store, or how big the company is; it’s not always the people who work there that want your identity. The article Identity theft growing, costly to victims in The Arizona Republic, J. Craig Anderson ...
III. Thesis Statement: Identity Theft is rapidly becoming a national issue because anyone of us could be a victim of identity theft. How we protect our self, keep our information private, identify any signs of identity theft, and report and repair our credit is up to each one of us. We have to be vigilant about our protecting ourselves from criminals.
RFID, or radio frequency identification, is the new system that is replacing the use of barcodes. RFID tags allow users to more quickly obtain information from the object that the RFID tag identifies (Evans, 2012, p. 190). RFID tags are more helpful and will eventually replace barcodes entirely because they allow the user to scan the object without physically touching or optically reading anything on it. Rather than reading an identification number that is then looked up in a database, it is possible to gather information directly from the tag (Bonsor).