Swiped, Adam Levin
Swiped, Adam Levin
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Swiped
How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves

Author: Adam Levin

Narrator: Adam Levin

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 12/01/2015


Synopsis

Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But the truth is, there are people out there -- a lot of them -- who treat stealing your identity as a full-time job.

One such company is a nameless firm located in Russia, which has a trove of over a billion internet passwords. Another set up a website full of live streams of hacked web cameras, showing everything from people's offices and lobbies to the feeds from baby monitors. Even purchases made in person are still logged by retailers like Target, who are famously vulnerable to hackers.

Adam Levin, a longtime consumer advocate and identity fraud expert, is your guide to this brave new world. By telling memorable stories and extracting the relevant lessons, he offers a strategy for dealing with these risks. You may not be able to prevent identity theft, but you certainly shouldn't wait until it happens to take action. Levin's approach is defined by the three M's: minimizing risk, monitoring your identity, and managing the damage. The book is also organized around the different problems caused by identity theft: financial, criminal, medical, familial, etc., enabling readers to dip into the sections most relevant to them.

Swiped is a practical, lively audiobook that is essential to surviving the ever-changing world of online security. It is invaluable not only for preventing problems but helping cope when they arrive.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

Not awful, but long on generalities & incredibly repetitious. The author, Adam Levin, doesn't 'work for' IDT911 as he states a dozen or more times, but actually founded the company in 2003, at least according to the history of CyberScout, the new name of the company as of this year, 2017. I didn't l......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

Many recommendations for avoiding fraud and identity theft. The author recommends checking bank and credit accounts daily. It is also good to set alerts for withdrawals so they can be tracked.......more

Goodreads review by Paul

Swiped: How to Protect Yourself In a World of Scammers, Phishers and Identity Thieves, Adam Levin, 2016, ISBN 9781610397209 The question is not if, but when, identity theft happens to you. This book gives the details. Everyone has read about the major data breaches of recent years, exposing the person......more