https://www.stopcatalog.com/categories/general-security/Recent content in General Security on Stopcatalog.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenStopcatalog.comMon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/catalog-mail-identity-theft/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/catalog-mail-identity-theft/ <h2 id="the-10-billion-problem-sitting-in-your-mailbox">The $10 Billion Problem Sitting in Your Mailbox</h2> <p>According to the <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/CSN-Annual-Data-Book-2023.pdf">FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2023</a>, U.S. consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud in 2023 — the first time reported losses have crossed that threshold. Identity theft ranked among the most-reported fraud categories, with roughly 2.6 million fraud reports filed that year. Those numbers represent real people whose names, addresses, financial accounts, and personal details were harvested, sold, and ultimately exploited.</p>https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/harriet-carter-privacy-risk/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/harriet-carter-privacy-risk/ <h2 id="physical-mail-is-the-forgotten-privacy-vector">Physical Mail Is the Forgotten Privacy Vector</h2> <p>Most people now treat their inbox as a threat surface. Phishing links, credential-harvesting emails, and data-breach notifications have trained a generation to be cautious online. Physical mail, by contrast, feels low-tech and therefore safe. It is neither. The postal address attached to your name circulates through a mature commercial data industry — catalog list brokers, data compilers, and direct-mail cooperatives — that operates largely out of public view. A single purchase from a gift catalog can seed that address into dozens of downstream lists within a few mailing cycles.</p>https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/new-homeowner-catalog-floods/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/new-homeowner-catalog-floods/ <h2 id="the-mailbox-surprise-nobody-warns-you-about">The Mailbox Surprise Nobody Warns You About</h2> <p>The boxes are barely unpacked and the mailbox is already full—but not with correspondence for the new residents. Catalogs for outdoor furniture, kitchen gadgets, clothing brands, and home goods begin arriving within days of a move, most of them addressed to the new occupant by name. Within the first month, it is common for a newly moved household to receive dozens of unsolicited mail pieces per week.</p>https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/remove-address-from-mailing-lists/Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/remove-address-from-mailing-lists/ <h2 id="take-back-control-of-your-mailbox--and-your-personal-data">Take Back Control of Your Mailbox — and Your Personal Data</h2> <p>Federal law and free or low-cost industry tools give you real mechanisms to remove your address from the mailing lists that clutter your mailbox and, more importantly, from the data pipelines that can widen your identity-theft exposure. Every piece of physical mail that carries your name and address is a data point — one that can be stolen from a mailbox, photographed by a porch thief, or used to corroborate a synthetic identity built in your name.</p>