May 9, 2008- Austin's ABC KVUE featured a story about the Armadillo Card Shield and the newest type of identity theft! Click on the link below to watch the story! This story had one of the best responses for us. Thank you Olga Campos and Leon Counts.
May 20, 2008 - After two months of investigating by Phoenix CBS 5 KPHO, the Armadillo Card Shield team made the news about their product and how it works. Contactless debit and credit card theft is a real possibility if you are not protected with an Armadillo Card Shield. Hackers now known as skimmers can steal information just walking past you in the mall. Watch a hacker "skim" credit card information to see how easy it happens.
Protect your clients with your branded card shield from contactless identity theft.
Last Updated ( Friday, 10 October 2008 23:50 )
ACS Team invited to talk to Gilbert & Mesa Police Depts
Written by ACS PR Team
Friday, 29 August 2008 05:43
June 24, 2008 - Vickie Owen of the Gilbert Police Dept contacted Wisteria House Products (the Armadillo Card Shield) team to find out more about radio-frequency theft. After she had done exhaustive research on her own, she wanted to demonstrate how easy it was to “skim” an identity from the RF tagged credit card she had ordered from a local bank.
The Armadillo Card Shield team was invited to attend and inform at an educational session to be held for local Mesa and Gilbert police officers at the Mesa Police Compound on June 24, 2008. Ms. Owen wanted to demonstrate skimming from her credit card, but the bank had not issued the RF tagged card by the time her demonstration was given.
Vickie spoke about Radio-Frequency technology and showed a strong PowerPoint demonstrating that RF tags are everywhere. She then invited the Armadillo Card Shield team, (Wisteria House Products, LLC) members Catherine Leyen and Travis Merrick to speak to the group about the newest kind of RF theft, radio-frequency skimming.
The team shared their knowledge about the vulnerabilities of radio-frequency use with the attending officers and shared the news specials that had been aired about their new protective devices. They discussed the vulnerabilities of using unsecured WiFi with laptop computers, giving out personal information on cordless phones with base stations, wireless nanny cams, wireless keyboards, and about the potential for identity theft with so many of the new RF tagged debit and credit cards, door access cards, and the new REAL ID driver’s licenses to be issued.
During one of the news specials, a bank vice-president had stated that he had not seen any of the RF theft of the kind that the Armadillo Card Shield was designed to protect against. His comment brought a lighthearted chuckle from the attending officers. We were told some officers were taking 12 -15 ID theft reports a day!Many of the victims had no idea how their identity was stolen.
The Armadillo Card Shield team discovered the afore-mentioned bank had purchased their own RF shield company four days after the CBS special aired.
The discussion then traversed into the serious vulnerabilities of wireless internet use, and how many victims have possibly lost their identity and banking information through improper unsecured use of WiFi with their laptops. Vickie Owen mentioned that there is a banking commercial playing that talks about secure internet banking, but shows a woman on a sofa with a laptop doing her banking!
Travis elaborated on the multiple ways a wireless hacker can steal an individual's vital information. Browsers can be "wijacked", fake routers can be setup that copy every keystroke, e-mails and banking passwords can be stolen and even illicit porn can be uploaded onto your hard-drive, and the victim would never even know it! Wisteria House Products informed the officers on how they offer solutions to these potentially serious problems. XXX
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 September 2008 04:19 )
Armadillo Card Shield Team invited to teach Glendale Police Dept.
July 7, 2008 - Rosario Guillermo (Nickname: Chai) and Angela Downey of the Glendale Police Department invited the Armadillo Card Shield team to their Community Identity Theft Forum, for officers, and the public in Glendale, Arizona. Wireless and contact less identity theft is a specialty subject, and Wisteria House Products Armadillo Dollar team are experts. They took the stage immediately following Arizona Maricopa County Attorney's Bureau Chief Maryann McKessy, who spoke on analog identity theft precautions.
Travis Merrick and Catherine Leyen, of Wisteria House Products, (the Armadillo Card Shield developers,) spoke about radio-frequency theft, identity theft involving wireless applications, WiFi theft from laptops, unsecured WiFi access points, wireless keyboards, cordless phones, and many other wireless vulnerabilities.
Many attending had never heard of wireless theft, and were intrigued from what the Armadillo team shared about wireless computer theft, RF identity theft and many other ways invisible theft can occur.
Arizona ranks first in the nation in identity theft. We've been told, most officers in the theft divisions take as many as 12-15 identity theft case reports a day! Many of their victims have told them they have no idea how their identities had been stolen.
Several individuals in the audience were from the computer division of the Glendale Police Dept and confirmed what was being shared by the AD team.
Glendale was host to the Super Bowl XLII 2008 Football in January.
KGUN 9 Tucson News
Written by ACS PR Team
February 20, 2008 - ABC affiliate KGUN 9 of Tucson was the first to do a story on us about our product and identity protection.Reporter Dan Spindle of KGUN has a show called "Does It Work?" We invited the Arizona Attorney Generals office to the interview to watch the demonstration of how the Armadillo Card Shield works! Reporter Dan Spindle of KGUN has a show called "Does It Work?" After some investigating into the reality of contact less identity theft through wireless means, he graded the Armadillo Card Shield product with an "A".
