Test your credit cards with FREE skimming APP.

Following up from a recent blog post about FREE smartphone Apps  and skimming app that can read your credit cards. We have found an app that will show you how vulnerable you are now.

If you own a smartphone that has NFC on it, you can download this app & turn your phone into a skimmer to see if your credit cards can be skimmed.

If you have an ARMOURCARD in your wallet you are safe, perhaps its time to test it out yourself on your own credit cards, then come back a buy an ARMOURCARD to get protected.

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Is your Privacy a myth? – Hollywood finally helps to put it out there.

Hot on the heals from the fall out in the US of the NSA’s privacy scandal, Hollywood has timed this movie release beautifully, with everyone asking the question of how private is your personal data these days. The movie tackles privacy issues we face daily in this age.

 The tag line for the movie is

 “Privacy is a myth”

and

“information is the most dangerous weapon”

It seems that Hollywood is catching on to what we have always been saying and that is….

“In days gone past we assumed our personal data was private, now in todays world we have to assume that our personal data is in the public domain and NOW we have to work hard at keeping it private”

This is a total 180 degree change, with the internet, social media channels, wireless technologies like Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communication (NFC) our personal data is more open than ever before and easy for an organised criminal to use your personal data to clone your identity or know when your away from home so they can rob you.

At ARMOURCARD we believe that you have a right to privacy. That is why we developed and patented the first ‘Active RFID & NFC protection device’ on the market.  We are concerned, just like you, of managing your privacy and keeping things private.

It is time to start taking back some of that power that has been relinquished through technological advances and social platforms.

ARMOURCARD can help you! With our Active Protection Technology (APT), you can now jam out unwanted RFID & NFC tag interrogations of your credit cards, ePassports, enhanced drivers licenses and iD cards so no skimmer can read your personal data. (or credit card number etc) You can now be protected from this growing cyber crime of electronic skimming or pickpocketing.

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View movie trailer here
 

APPetite for destruction, Apps that can Skim your credit card data

Not long ago I wrote a blog post on the new wave of smartphones that are NFC enabled that can use free apps to skim credit cards and the potential threat that anyone with a NFC enabled phone can potentially skim your credit cards. So protecting your credit cards from electronic pickpockets in this new age of NFC enabled phones just got a little bit more necessary.

Now you have to think about every APP you download.

Because every APP could hold a Trojan program inside that runs in the background and basically searches via your NFC enabled smartphone for credit cards details.

The credit cards that use the RFID chip like Visa cards PayWave, MasterCard PayPass or American Express’s ExpresPay.

So next time you drop your phone inside your handbag or by your wallet watch out it may be your skimmers best friend.

Your phone with the rogue App installed will locate the RFID enabled cards, interrogate them for their data and secretly email those credit card numbers to a criminal 3rd party without you ever knowing it.

Pretty scary stuff isn’t it.

Well, the only way to protect yourself truly is to put an ARMOURCARD inside your wallet alongside all your RFID enabled credit / debit cards.

ARMOURCARD’s patented ACTIVE RFID & NFC protection actually jams all RFID & NFC signals running on the most common bandwidth for contact-less devices of 13.56Mhz.

So even if you have a rogue APP there is NO chance it could get your credit card data,  ARMOURCARD would instantly power up when the APP would try and communicate with the cards and jam the signals.

Isn’t it time you started to protect your own identity and data!

Walt, one of our US competitors is again on the PR trail and showing just how easy it is these days with trojan APPs.

We think Walt does a great job getting the message out there, so thanks, Walt.

We just don’t believe that passive RFID blocking wallets or shielding sleeves (like what Walt stocks) are the best way for protecting your data.

In-fact there are many reports by industries top hacking security experts* stating that these passive blocking wallets and sleeves at the very BEST may limit the distance too which a reader can read your cards but mostly if a reader is dialled up in power and antenna strength these passive RFID blocking wallets and sleeves WILL BE penetrated.

The choice is yours it’s your personal data, we chose active protection that is why we developed ARMOURCARD.

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Source^ Passive Shields or metallic wallets Only reduce the signal strength, this will not block a high-powered RFID reader Source: Credit Card Fraud The contactless Generation | Kristin Paget | Chief Hacker, Recursion Ventures. – See more at: https://armourcard.com/rfid-blocking/

Aluma Wallet – PLUS a FREE set of Steak Knives

There are many RFID wallets on the market and none are as aggressive in their advertising as the Aluma Wallet.

We applaud Aluma Wallet for helping educate the public on the issue of needing RFID protection, as most people either didn’t even know there was an issue or just never thought it would happen to them.

So first up…

well done for getting it out there.

Aluma Wallet quite rightly states several very real statistics on their infomercials and they believe that a hard aluminium cased wallet offers some level of protection against electronic pickpocketing.

We at ARMOURCARD have done our own research and we were not satisfied that the level of protection these aluminium wallets like Aluma Wallet give actually prevents a dialled up power RFID reader from penetrating their metal cases.

To us, they seem a little ‘analog’ and at the very best may limit the distance an RFID reader can interrogate your credit cards from, apart from the fact that they are ugly, bulky and can easily slip out of your pocket (so you may actually lose your wallet)

No that wasn’t just why we developed ARMOURCARD which offers our latest ‘patented Active RFID Protection’

Plus the fact that with ARMOURCARD you can own any wallet you like and not be forced to buy any ugly RFID protection claiming wallet to get at least what is perceived to be some ‘passive’ protection.

No we developed ARMOURCARD and patented our new ‘Active RFID Protection’ that actually jams the RFID & NFC signals so no queries from a reader regardless how powerful the reader is dialled up or how big the antenna is, will no circumvent ARMOURCARD’s jammng technology.

Now ask yourself this…

Do you want to be told to buy an ugly, bulky aluminium wallet that may or may not protect your personal data from electronic skimming

or

Do you want the latest ‘Active RFID Protection’ that actively tackles the problem differently and in better more secure way

NOT from passively, maybe, hopefully trying to block a signal?..

BUT actively jams all RFID & NFC signals using the most common bandwidth used for contact-less devices of 13.56Mhz.

We asked that same question and that is why we developed ARMOURCARD, to protect our own personal data,

Now you can protect yours.

Video: America Now News Report putting Aluma Wallets claims to the test

Electronic Pickpocketing is a very real problem.

In this report by KOMO 4 News in Seattle, it shows how easy it is to be electronically pick-pocketed. Now with the influx of new smartphones on the market that are Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled teamed with free apps anyone can now skim your credit cards and use them with ease. Credit Card Protection is needed now more than ever.

It seems even the card issuing companies like MasterCard are finally admitting (although with smoke and mirrors) there is an issue.

The official response by MasterCard

It’s aware of the situation…

The circumstances under which it can occur in the real world are extremely rare

We don’t consider this to be a serious threat to our cardholders.

Beth Kitchener
Mastercard Worldwide

Sounds a lot like a position from a company who has invested billions in the roll-out of this vulnerable technology and have accessed the risk (to them) not to their customers and that risk is acceptable.

It seems they have recently changed position, as not long ago they told us they have never heard of a case of electronic pickpocketing being reported.? Which in itself is rather strange as how are you to know you where ePickpocketted in the first place as no physical loss of cards, so who would know when and how it happened.

If your looking to protect yourself from this type of growing crime discover how ARMOURCARD protects your credit cards

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The Australian Newspaper runs a story on the new wave of electronic pickpocketing coming to a wallet near you.

In the weekend version of ‘The Australian’ newspaper (8.6.13), two reporters Adam Shand & Ben Westcott report on how electronic pickpocketing is now a real concern.

We applaud Adam, Ben and The Australian Newspaper for bringing this to the attention of the general public.

Now as we have reported in a previous ARMOURCARD blog post, there are now FREE apps that allow you to skim card data with your Near Field Enabled (NFC) smartphones. These include the Samsung Galaxy 3 or Galaxy 4, latest Windows phones and rumors are that the next generation of iPhone will also be NFC enabled. What that means to you and I is everyone with a smartphone potentially will be able to use that phone to electronically pickpocket your data without you even knowing it.

We did our own bench testing

At ARMOURCARD we don’t claim to be experts in hacking or skimming.? However we were able to download a range of apps that were capable of extracting card data and applied them to testing. We found that the apps were able to extract different data from a range of cards some even including the cardholders name . The point being that if a couple of novices could easily obtain the equipment and means to do this, what would a seasoned professional be capable of accomplishing? We were not comfortable with the ease at which our personal data could be compromised. ARMOURCARD provides the first electronic solution to this vulnerability.

What do the card issuers say:

In the article a spokes person for Visa, Judy Shaw, said that it was:

“technically possible to lift some details from its cards using NFC scanning technology”

In the article it was said that “the level of security was extremely high and contact-less payments were as safe as traditional cards”. Traditional cards do not have a history of being secure. The size of the fraud industry which has emerged from the lack of card security is living testament to this. Why else would financial institutions limit? transactions to under $100 if there was no cause for concern?? Does that sound secure to you?

If you are wanting to secure your identity today, then get ‘active RFID & NFC protection from ARMOURCARD.

Why risk your identity? Buy ARMOURCARD today!

To view the full article click on the image below.

Global privacy champion Dr Katherine Albrecht talks about the next wave of RFID crime.

Dr Katherine Albrecht has been the champion of outing the RFID industries plans to track every purchase and track you via RFID for over 10 years.

I have recently connected with Katherine and I am sending her an ARMOURCARD.

Hopefully once Katherine sees how effective our ‘Active RFID & NFC Protection’ technology is she will also say to her following that now there is an effective solution to the vulnerabilities surrounding this contact-less technology that is? in-use today and not just advise requesting a non RFID enabled card from your banks.

With ARMOURCARD’s technology, you actually get the best of both worlds.

Firstly, you get security from being skimmed this way as we jam RFID & NFC signals so no RFID reader can interrogate your cards,

Secondly, you get the convenience to use these contact-less payment terminals. We have incorporated a capacity switch on every ARMOURCARD which enables you to temporarily turn of ARMOURCARD’s jamming so you can still get the convenience of being able to use ‘tap&go’ payment terminals.

Find out more what makes ARMOURCARD the best solution here

If you are interested in Katherine’s book called ‘Spychips’ you can purchase it through Amazon here or through the Amazon widget located on the left side of the page.

Radio-frequency identification (RFID)  as a Spy tool of the future

A quick definition:

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of a wireless non-contact system that uses radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to transfer data from a tag attached to an object, for the purposes of automatic identification and tracking.

Put simply think of RFID as like your FM radio waves, they can penetrate walls, clothes, doors etc etc, with the right RFID reader you can trigger the interrogation of the RFID tag within your credit cards, ePassports, enhanced driver licenses, library cards etc etc. So RFID as a spy tool was how it got started.

Hence why it took 6 years to discover it.

To discover more about how vulnerable you are with your RFID / NFC enabled cards / epassports etc go here

Buy ARMOURCARD now and get protected from this type of electronic spying

Sources: Spychips – a book written by Katherine Albrecht & Liz McIntyre which you can Buy SpyChips from Amazon now

It just got easier for criminals to read your RFID cards data with this FREE app.

A smartphone app, which allows the user to read RFID cards like credit card information through wallets and purses, is cause for concern amongst consumers that carry credit cards with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, according to experts.

The free app, available on the Samsung Galaxy S3 through the Google Play store, allows the phone to read the RFID chip on a credit card, picking up the cardholder’s name, credit card number and expiry date, according to a CBC investigation.

A quote from David Skillicorn, a professor at the school of computing at Queens University.

But there is nothing inherent in the technology that says it has to be within three to four inches if you turn the power up you can push it out to 10 or 15 feet,

That’s where the trouble starts because now you don?t have to be very close to the credit card or the passport in order to read the information on it.

The CBC investigation into the application revealed that credit card information could be read through wallets, pockets and purses using the phones near field communication (NFC) antenna. Theoretically, this means that someone using the app could gain access to your credit card information by just standing near you.

Read the full article on Canada’s Global News website

CBC – video report below.

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Electronic Pickpockets – Will you even know you have been skimmed?

A recent report filed by Alyssa Reilly on the increase in electronic pickpockets. An interesting point made by the policeman is its extremely hard to know when this crime happens to you, as no physical contact is made for the crime to be perpetrated. This means no one really knows when or how.

As ARMOURCARD is new technology most of these stories only know of passive blocking means which can also be compromised. The word will get out that active RFID protection offered by ARMOURCARD’s patented technology is far superior to passive RFID blocking.

Why would you risk your data & identity being skimmed.

It’s time to take control, get active RFID protection with ARMOURCARD today!

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