If you’ve been considering a credit freeze, you should know that this process is designed to prevent creditors from accessing your credit report unless you explicitly authorize it. This effectively blocks potential creditors from viewing or pulling your file, making it significantly more difficult for identity thieves to apply for new credit in your name…
In the age of digital interconnectedness, passwords have become the first line of defense against cyber threats. Unfortunately, many individuals still rely on weak, easily guessable passwords that leave their online accounts vulnerable to attacks. This article delves into the most commonly used and easily crackable passwords, and provides essential tips for creating and managing…
Information is Power as they say. Information refers to data that has been processed, organized, or structured in a way that makes it meaningful and useful. It can be understood as knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance. “Fact” being the operative word. Information has historically been treated as Fact. However “Disinformation”…
Real-estate fraud experts warn that AI advancements and the abundance of publicly available information has made scammers more daring in their attempts at deed or title theft. These fraudsters are targeting a wide range of property owners from residents of big mansions to individuals with simpler homes or smaller vacant land parcels. AI systems can…
I received a sextortion email, to my actual inbox, not in spam, addressed specifically to me, with my name, my address, my phone number, and the worst part, a picture of my home. Here’s how it began: Subject line: Robert Siciliano “Robert Siciliano, I know that calling 617329XXXX or visiting (my actual address) would be…
Are you doom scrolling? Do you find yourself obsessively checking your feeds? Does the election have you pinned to an anxiety rating of 10? Are you logging into your social media accounts and wanting to go to battle with every idiot who posts a dumb meme counter to your beliefs? Are you only reading half…
Over the years criminals occasionally contact me to tell me about their exploits and often ask how they can get into the “security awareness” business. Everyone wants to be a Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can movie). These crimes are often sociopaths and incapable of functioning normally without eventually resorting to the easy money…
Maybe company executives who don’t engage in real world security awareness training should suffer the consequences for their insufficiency. An excellent Help Net Security article is titled “What CISOs need to keep CEOs (and themselves) out of jail” discusses many of the fundamentals of cyber security, what security leaders should be doing, but aren’t doing,…
A long-running and large-scale internet-based fraud scheme netted around $50 million from dozens of investors over an eight-year period. The perpetrators created 150 fake sites that targeted investors. These sites would tell the investors that they had multiple investment opportunities that they should take. According to the court documents, these websites would have higher than normal rates…
Sextortion is EVERYONES PROBLEM. This isn’t just a children and teens thing, it’s adults too. The FBI says year over year this crime is increasing. And it’s affecting families, their livelihoods, and their businesses. Make no mistake, Sextortion affects you, our government, your organization, its security, your employees, their productivity, whether or not they may…
