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Medical Records are worth more to Criminal Hackers than Credit Cards

You may want to talk to your care provider’s office about this… From http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/09/29/1620231/medical-records-worth-more-to-hackers-than-credit-cards#

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Using an Infrared Camera to hack a PIN Pad

Using 12345 as your password is a really bad idea. Use the stylus at the store when you can or place your fingers on all of the buttons as you type in your PIN number. 

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Preventing and Recovering from Identity Theft

Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put ‘PHOTO ID REQUIRED.’ When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the ‘For’ line. Instead, just put

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