Download Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves AudioBook Free
Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We may once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and extreme spam folders, and the ones are guidelines so far as they go. But the truth is there are people out there - a lot of them - who treat stealing your personal information as a full-time job. One such company is a nameless firm located in Russia, which has a trove of more than a billion Internet passwords. Another create a website filled with live streams of hacked web cameras, showing from people's offices and lobbies to the feeds from baby monitors. Even purchases made in person remain logged by merchants like Goal, who are famously susceptible to hackers. Adam Levin, a longtime consumer advocate and personal information scam expert, is your guide to this brave new world. By revealing memorable experiences and extracting the relevant lessons, he offers a strategy for dealing with these dangers. You might not exactly have the ability to prevent identity theft, nevertheless, you certainly shouldn't hold out until it happens to take action. Levin's methodology is described by the three M's: minimizing risk, monitoring your personal information, and handling the destruction. The audiobook is also planned around different problems induced by identity theft: financial, legal, medical, familial, etc., enabling listeners to drop in to the sections most relevant to them. Swiped is a practical, energetic audiobook that is vital to surviving the ever-changing world of online security. It really is invaluable not limited to preventing problems but for helping cope when they get there.