Buyers Beware of Tampered Gift Cards

Prepaid gift cards make popular presents and no-brainer stocking stuffers, but before you purchase one be on the lookout for signs that someone may have tampered with it. A perennial scam that picks up around the holidays involves thieves who pull back and then replace the decals that obscure the card’s redemption code, allowing them to redeem or transfer the card’s balance online after the card is purchased by an unwitting customer. Continue reading Buyers Beware of Tampered Gift Cards

How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History

A KrebsOnSecurity series on how easy big-three credit bureau Equifax makes it to get detailed salary history data on tens of millions of Americans apparently inspired a deeper dive on the subject by Fast Company, which examined how this Equifax division has been one of the company’s best investments. In this post, I’ll show you how to opt out of yet another Equifax service that makes money at the expense of your privacy. Continue reading How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History

News – Startup Security Weekly #34

5 reasons to slow or stop the growth of your business, Walmart is working with startups, Cloudera goes public, and more in this week’s Startup News! Full Show Notes Visit http://securityweekly.com/category/ssw/ for all the latest episodes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/sswaudio/Startup_Security_Weekly__39_-_News_converted.mp3 Continue reading News – Startup Security Weekly #34