Identity theft is at an all time high. With businesses, universities and banks being compromised the threat is real right now. The media covers these area's but miss one important location that your most suseptiable to fraud, everywhere you swipe your credit card. We will pull out all the stops to help you understand credit cards, their history and how to protect yourself. Ever wonder what was in the magnetic strip of a card? Where that information goes? Who keeps your personal information, and for how long? Who is data mining this information? Who do they sell it to? All these questions and more will be answered in this presentation Defcon 11 we talked about social engineering to steal your credit card information. Defcon 12 we gave a live example on stealing credit card data from merchant networks. Now we will show you what that information is, and how to protect yourself against fraud.