Protecting your wallet in Digital age

While we all want speedier, more www.avg.com/activate convenient payment options, have you stopped to consider the www.avg.com/activation    level of personal information avg.com/activation you now carry around about yourself, and whether you are still doing such a good job of keeping avg.com/retail    your Install Avg With License Number activation  wallet safe in today’s digital age?As National Cyber Security Awareness month continues, I’ve jotted down a few of my top tips:

When is a wallet, not a wallet?

There has been much talk of the ‘digital wallet’ in recent years, but with NFC payments now enabled through Install Avg With License Number activation  schemes such as Apple Pay and Android Pay, your smartphone could now be considered a wallet on its own. As such, you’ll need to consider both its physical and cyber security. This means www.avg.com/activate taking steps such as considering where you’re carrying and using your phone, making sure you have software avg.com/retail    to protect it from malware, and ensuring you only use avg.com/activation it at trusted locations for sensitive transactions such www.avg.com/activation    as money transfers.

Does you wallet speak for itself?

With contactless payment systems becoming more popular, especially in Europe, even cards in your wallet could speak without you knowing www.avg.com/activation   . If you card has the ‘contactless’ Wi-Fi type symbol on it then it most likely has RFID technology avg.com/retail    that allows details to be read Install Avg With License Number activation  from the card without the need to swipe or insert into a chip and pin reader. This also means that if a cybercriminal can get close enough avg.com/activation to your card then they might be able to read some of the data from it. www.avg.com/activate Wallet manufacturers are now producing wallets that add pockets of protection for you to store cards of this type. I recently purchased one and now it stores both my driver’s licence and contactless cards in the protected zone.

Putting a PIN in your security

With the increase in payment technologies  Install Avg With License Number activation  such as avg.com/retail    Chip and PIN and contactless, the contents of your traditional wallets www.avg.com/activate are also more vulnerable than ever before www.avg.com/activation   . So what steps should you take here.

Just as you wouldn’t leave your house keys in your front door, your card or phone’s PIN number should never be www.avg.com/activation    written down and avg.com/activation certainly avg.com/retail    not left with the card or phone itself. If you have trouble remembering the PIN provided by your bank, you should change it to a www.avg.com/activate number that's Install Avg With License Number activation  easier for you to remember – but not so easy that others could guess it. When entering your PIN, you should also hide it from anyone who might be looking!

While not yet mainstream in the U.S., ‘touch and go’ NFC payment from a phone or ‘contactless’ RFID from a credit card avg.com/activation is already common in Europe. Making a payment in seconds is appealing to many of us, but Install Avg With License Number activation  this convenience avg.com/retail    comes with a number www.avg.com/activate of other security considerations. In the UK, there is currently a cap of $45 (£30) on such purchases – minimising the risk of significant purchases being made on a stolen card or phone www.avg.com/activation   . For anyone still feeling nervous, it is possible to ‘opt out’ and request a simple Chip and PIN card.

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