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Shoestring media writes article “Startup saving Aussies billions with personal jamming device”

In a candid interview with the CEO Tyler Harris, Shoestring Media editor Tasnuva Bindi gets to the bottom of some interesting technology that is found inside every card Armourcard.

They discuss some future growth plans for the business plus asks what have been and will be the business’s challenges in the coming year.

Great article and well worth a read.

 

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Tyler Harris
Founder | CEO
ARMOURCARD

 

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If you would like to get in contact with the CEO for interviews please go to our contact us page and put all your details and we will get one of the directors to call you back.

 

Credit Card Offers – Does Tap and Go really encourage criminals?

articleArmourcard was asked to be featured in an article on the website Credit Card Offers following up from the Victorian Police concerns over the roll-out of ‘contact-less’ cards & payment terminals in the last week. Making it even easier for opportunistic criminals to skim your credit card details or even worse your personal identity details. Armourcard is featured as the only ‘Active’ solution to this growing problem. Within the article, they show a demonstration of how AC works in jamming out the unwanted RFID signals and how AC protects your credits within its proximity forcefield.

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2GB Radio Interview on ARMOURCARD

charliebrownOn Saturday 5th October, CEO of ARMOURCARD, Tyler Harris was interviewed by 2GB radio’s technology and lifestyle reporter and host Charlie Brown. What was discussed was the vulnerabilities surrounding your ‘Tap&Go’ credit cards and ePassports.

Charlie asked about ARMOURCARD and how we are the first company to provide ‘Active RFID & NFC’ protection with our patented technology found inside every ARMOURCARD.

Get protected today. Buy ARMOURCARD now

If you were unable to listen on the weekend you can listen to the ARMOURCARD interview podcast here, the time the interview starts is 0:29:25

 

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MEDIA RELEASE – 19.09.13

For immediate distribution 

Australian Invention Blazes a Trail in Identity Protection Technology

Media Release – A Sydney-based and owned company ARMOURCARD has developed the first active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) protection device for people who are serious about securing their identity.

The ARMOURCARD device actively blocks RFID signals, preventing personal data found on items such as credit cards and ePassports from being poached and used by identity thieves.

Differing from other more passive forms of protection such as credit card wallets or sleeves ARMOURCARD is a card that sits in one’s wallet and actively jams the RFID signals when a reader tries to interrogate cards or ePassports – making it impossible for hackers to obtain personal information.

Founded in 2012, ARMOURCARD is the brainchild of CEO Tyler Harris.

Tyler says in today’s technologically evolved world, we can’t be too careful.

No longer can we assume our personal data is private like in days gone by, now we have to actively work hard to keep private our personal data in this open airwaves information age, he said.

In this day and age it is imperative that personally, we are at the forefront when it comes to protecting and securing our own identity.

We live in a world where technological advancements have made it possible for personal information to be easily seized over open airwaves and used by identity thieves.

Devices such as credit cards, ePassports, drivers licenses, loyalty cards and even library cards, all contain sensitive personal identity data stored within a micro-chip. This leaves regular people extremely vulnerable to professional criminals and hackers who can intercept your data using the same RFID technologies.

The CEO said the idea for an active RFID protection device came out of a basic need to secure my own personal data from this growing crime.

We felt extremely sceptical and concerned about the level of security currently on the market surrounding these technologies, Tyler said.

No longer are we dealing with risks linked purely to the criminally minded – there are even apps being created, for example, that can be downloaded to Smartphones, transforming a regular phone into a credit card skimming device.

And if relative novices like ourselves were able to access personal data off credit cards so easily, imagine what the professional criminals and hackers can achieve it’s pretty frightening stuff, he said.

ARMOURCARD costs $59.99 Australian Dollars. To purchase ARMOURCARD or to learn more about it visit

The CEO contact details are below. Tyler can both be contacted for interviews or to answer questions.

 CEO & Founder: Tyler Harris

Email: [email protected]

Linkedin: Tyler Harris on Linkedin

Postal: P.O.Box 284, AVALON BEACH 2107

Facebook: www.facebook.com/Armourcard

Download Media Release here

 

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!

 

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