Your Secrets Are My Business: Security Expert Reveals How Your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, a nd Even Your Mail Make You an Easy Target for Today's Information Thieves

McKeown, Kevin,Stern, David

ISBN 10: 0452282047 / ISBN 13: 9780452282049

Published by Plume, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Secrets Are My Business: Security Expert Reveals How Your Trash, License Plate, Credit Cards, Computer, a nd Even Your Mail Make You an Easy Target for Today's Information Thieves
• Publisher: Plume
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452282047
• ISBN 13: 9780452282049
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.