Beware cyber pick pockets now we've told them how to do it!

The local news in Houston is a great source for this blog and they didn't let me down the other night.

They ran a story and a frightening new form of 'cyber pick pocketing'.

Apparently, there are now some credit card machines that you just place your credit card against instead of swiping it and some kind of chip inside can be read giving your details.

Obviously, with new technology, villains are not far behind with a way to exploit it and this is no different.

The credit cards can be read by a hand held device without you knowing while they are still in your wallet or purse.

This really is scary stuff and the local news were right in building it up as their main story. Only there haven't actually been any recorded cases of this happening. They were just letting us know that it 'could' happen.

Yes. Of course it could. Now you've shown everyone how to do it on TV!!

Muppets!