Your Secrets Are My Business - Security Expert Reveals How Your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards,

Zusatztext “Looks hard and deep into the burgeoning threat of information thievery. Kevin McKeown! a veteran government and corporate investigator! draws on dozens of his past cases to show how easy it is for criminals to gather personal information on average consumers. McKeown spends the first half of his book detailing how we leave information trails behind us—through our daily habits! by driving a car! by using a telephone! and so on. The book's second half explains how investigators! as well as criminals! pick up those trails. He ends each chapter with specific tips on what consumers can do to keep their information to themselves.”— Harry Wessel! Orlando Sentinel (Florida) Informationen zum Autor Kevin McKeown 's case history includes cracking an international high-tech smuggling ring with the FBI and U.S. Customs! reversing Robert De Niro's 1996 arrest for assault! and conducting an undercover investigation of Kraft Foods. Dave Stern is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction. Zusammenfassung Kevin McKeown knows how easy it is to find out anything about anyone-from credit card! bank account! and Social Security numbers to family histories. A top investigator and security advisor! he has spent the last twenty years doing covert sleuthing for everyone from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to A-list Hollywood celebrities. Now this professional insider shares the tools of his trade! and offers concrete tips for safeguarding our lives from the threats posed by the everyday conveniences we take for granted! from the cell phone to the family car. You'll learn about: * Shoulder surfing * Behavioral fingerprints * The black box * Traveling eyes * Phone clone * And what you can do to protect yourself Entertaining! informative! and instructive! with thrilling accounts of McKeown's high-profile cases! Your Secrets Are My Business is a must-read for everyone who wants to keep their secrets to themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - The Mustard Man and Me PART ONE: YOUR TRAIL Chapter One - Your Habits This Looks Like a Job for Superman The Frequent Liars Club Patty's Mistake Lucky's Big Break Chapter Two - Your Trash The Day It Rained Garbage Trash the Ego Behold the Power of Cheese It's a Girl A Final Word Chapter Three - Your Public Profile The Leaky Casket Caper Big Brother Conspiracy Theory The Leaky Basement Caper Chapter Four - Your Car I Showered with a Dead Man! Road Rage Say Cheese The Most Public Record of All Chapter Five - Your Telephone One Really Bad Bald Man The Day the Music Died: The Workplace Phone Beep You! The Book of the Film Chapter Six - Your Mail Dougie Does Paris Listen to What the (Fat) Man Said The Law's Longest Arm Chapter Seven - Your Credit Cards Dining at Its Finest What's My Line? Big Brother Is Watching Chapter Eight - Your Computer Let's Get Together and Feel All Right: The Ease of Electronic Theft An Immodest Proposal Office Politics Your E-Mail Erase vs. Delete: Discard vs. Destroy The Games People Play PART TWO: MY TOOLS Hold Still! This'll Only Hurt for a Second Chapter Nine - The Pretext I Can Get It For You Wholesale The Company You Keep Talkin' the Talk A Formal Approach Chapter Ten - Eavesdropping and Phone Scams Let That Be a Lesson to You Phone Clones A Boring Conversation Let Your Fingers Do the Talking Chapter Eleven - Robbing Your Identity The Right Man for the Job An Offer He Couldn't Refuse Chapter Twelve - Too Good to Be True The Trojan Horse Effect Meaner than a Junkyard Dog Instinct Appeal: Hook! Line! and Sinker For M...

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Mckeown, David Stern
• Publisher: Plume USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780452282049
• ISBN: 978-0-452-28204-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm