https://www.stopcatalog.com/tags/general-security/Recent content in General Security on Stopcatalog.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenStopcatalog.comTue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/cdw-privacy-risk/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/cdw-privacy-risk/ <h2 id="why-a-business-resellers-catalog-still-carries-personal-risk">Why a Business Reseller's Catalog Still Carries Personal Risk</h2> <p>A catalog delivered to a company's mailroom still lands on one named desk — a specific employee, a direct phone extension, sometimes a title printed next to the company name on the label. That personal detail is exactly what makes a follow-up call sound legitimate to the person who receives it, whether the caller claims to be confirming an order or verifying a payment method. <strong><a href="https://www.cdw.com/">CDW</a></strong> is one of the larger catalogs that reaches desks like that: the company sells IT hardware, software and services to enterprise, government, finance, retail and small-business customers, and a catalog or marketing relationship with CDW — print, email or account-based — means a name, an address and a direct contact method sit in its files the same way they would with any mail-order company.</p>https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/bland-farms-privacy-risk/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalog.com/post/bland-farms-privacy-risk/ <h2 id="a-privacy-promise-with-a-built-in-exception-what-bland-farms-actually-shares">A Privacy Promise With a Built-In Exception: What Bland Farms Actually Shares</h2> <p>An older shopper who recently placed an order with <strong><a href="https://blandfarms.com/privacy-policy/">Bland Farms</a></strong> answers a call that already contains details only a legitimate seller should have — the order number, the ship date, the name on the account — followed by a request to &quot;verify&quot; a card number before the shipment can go out. That exact pattern sits inside a number the FBI tracks every year: in 2023, victims over 60 reported $3.4 billion in losses to the FBI's <a href="https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2023_IC3ElderFraudReport.pdf">Internet Crime Complaint Center</a>, across 101,068 complaints, with an average loss of $33,915 — up roughly 11% on 2022. The IC3 report is an aggregate tally of all reported elder fraud; it does not name Bland Farms or any food company, and nothing here suggests this scenario has happened to an actual Bland Farms customer. What it shows is the mechanism: a caller holding real account details is far more convincing, which is why how a company says it handles that data — not just whether a scam call ever happens — is worth reading closely.</p>