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Special Forums Cybersecurity Anyone knows any prevention against identity theft? Post 302325738 by Risk-Management on Tuesday 16th of June 2009 04:34:34 AM

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Identity theft fraud is the fastest growing crime in Britain and costs �1.7Bn every year. Caution is highly recommended; keeping your SSN or credit card details confidential; observing good information security practices such as keeping personal information in a secure location and the proper disposal of documents which contain personal details can help prevent against this. Also, be vigilant whenever you use your card to pay for anything; ‘skimming’, whereby they take a copy of your card details, can be very easy and quick to do, so be aware whenever you hand over your card at a checkout and always keep it in sight. There have been a number of cases where ATM machines have had skimming devices attached to them (in one case they went so far as to attach an entire new replica front to a machine, which was only spotted as regular user noticed the machine stuck out further than normal), so look for any anything unusual when using these machines and if anything seems suspicious contact the bank and use a different machine. In terms of a service which can prevent fraud, there are a number of services which are costly and are mostly reactive rather than proactive, meaning there is no better (and cheaper) protection than being cautious and secure with any personal information.

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dummy_cs

DUMMY_CS(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       DUMMY_CS(4)

NAME

       dummy_cs - PCMCIA dummy device driver

SYNOPSIS

       insmod dummy_cs.o [pc_debug=n] [free_ports=n] [irq_list=i,j,...]

DESCRIPTION

       The dummy_cs module has two purposes.  It is intended as a demonstration of how to write the PCMCIA interface code for a client driver, and
       the source code is heavily commented.  It is also written to function as a sort of generic ``point enabler'': when bound to any	PCMCIA	IO
       card,  it  will read the card's Configuration Information Structure, and configure the card appropriately.  The configuration includes set-
       ting up IO and memory windows, configuring the card for interrupts, and initializing the card's PCMCIA configuration registers.

       It turns out that many cards report incomplete or inaccurate configuration information, due to vendor carelessness and  the  complexity	of
       the  data format.  A vendor driver can generally take for granted many configuration details, so there is not much incentive for vendors to
       ensure that the on-card information is complete.  Thus, the dummy_cs module is limited by its generality: since	it  makes  no  assumptions
       about card types, it is forced to rely on the card information, for better or worse.

PARAMETERS

       pc_debug=n
	      Selects  the PCMCIA debugging level.  This parameter is only available if the module is compiled with debugging enabled.	A non-zero
	      value enables debugging.

       free_ports=n
	      A flag indicating if the IO ports allocated for the card should be freed from the kernel resource maps.  This is useful if the dummy
	      driver is being used to configure a card in preparation for loading a specific PCMCIA-unaware driver.  The default is 0 (false).

       irq_list=i,j,...
	      Specifies the set of interrupts that may be allocated by this driver.

AUTHOR

       David Hinds - dahinds@users.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO

       cardmgr(8), pcmcia(5).

pcmcia-cs							2000/06/12 21:24:47						       DUMMY_CS(4)