Kimberly Rhine
LIB 103
Ms. Pemberton
Ms. Cody
Assignment #4- News Report
“How ‘carders’ Trade Your Stolen Personal Info” By Robert Vamosi. September 29th, 2008. < http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-10053523-57.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.0 >.
I chose to do my news report on this article because it really think it is something that could really benefit you to have knowledge of. Unfortunately because of today’s technology debit cards and PINs are “hot subjects on the criminal underground forums these days,” says Tom Rusin. Tom Rusin is the president of the North American operations at Affinion Group. Affinion Group is a company that monitors the criminal underground for several thousand banking institutions by lurking in carder chat rooms. Basically Tom Rusin is a very intelligent man who has great knowledge about the Debit Card/PINs crime.
When I was first reading the article I really didn’t know what a “carder” was. A “carder” is someone who buy, sell, and trade on the credit card data stolen from phishing cites, or from large data breaches at retail stores. I personally have never had my Debit Card numbers stolen, and had my PINS messed with but now I understand all the commercials lately talking about identity theft, and how to protect you. I didn’t realize that this was becoming such an issue lately.
In the article they tell you that Affinion just told the FBI about .Mac users who were
victims in s phishing scan. To me this was very scary because a lot of people use the Mac websites, regardless if it is for their iPod’s, the new popular iPhone, their iTouch, Mac computers, and much much more. They hackers have been targeted “bulletproof” cites, which are sites that are so large that they have almost no chance of ever being shut down. They tell you to make sure that on the browser you see https if you are giving your credit card or pin or something. This tells you that the site is secure. Although they have those precautions there are still ways that hackers can unfortunately get a hold of your information.
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Are you trying to figure out how to steal credit card information to go shopping Kim? This article does seem like it would be beneficial for someone that wants to learn about identity theft. I have always been worried about buying stuff off the internet for the reason of identity theft. I have a mac and mess around with Itunes alot i didn't like hearing that identity thef tis big in Itunes
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