Entries by Robert Siciliano

Utah Medicaid Breach Serves as Another Wakeup Call

An employee of the Utah State Department of technology must have hit the snooze button when he launched a test server that resulted in the breach of 780,000 Medicaid records including over 250,000 Social Security numbers. The Governor of Utah was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune saying “Individuals provide sensitive personal information to the government in a…

Business Data Breaches Key in Rise of ID Theft

The 2012 Identity Fraud Report: Social Media and Mobile Forming the New Fraud Frontier report released by Javelin Strategy & Research Data Breaches increasing and more damaging – “One likely contributing factor to the fraud increase was the 67 percent increase in the number of Americans impacted by data breaches compared to 2010. Javelin Strategy…

Android Viruses are the Real Deal

Smartphones now make up half of all activated mobile phones. And as we know, smartphones are small computers, capable of performing most of the same functions as a PC, primarily through the use of mobile applications. Some claim that mobile malware threats are still too scarce to worry about. But while PCs definitely remain the…

I’m Running the Boston Marathon Monday April 16th

Hello Friends, Colleagues, Clients, Media, Readers and all those who we’ve ever come in contact with: The following is one sentence of business updates AND THEN more importantly, Robert’s running the Boston Marathon next week, Monday April 16th for Children’s Hospital Boston. Sick kids need your help. Quick Biz: Robert was in Time Magazine http://ow.ly/adxbp in March, VERY…

What Happens to Your Profile After You Die?

If you were hit by a bus, and passed on to whatever heaven might exist, would you care about your Facebook page? Probably not. But your loved ones more than likely would. Things like email, websites, and social media profiles are considered “digital assets,” which may have some monetary value, but for the most part…

Identity Theft Tops 2011 Consumer Complaints

The Federal Trade Commission today released its list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2011. For the 12th year in a row, identity theft complaints topped the list. Of more than 1.8 million complaints filed in 2011, 279,156 or 15 percent, were identity theft complaints. Nearly 25 percent of the identity theft complaints related…