Entries by Robert Siciliano

National Identity Card Focuses on US Workers & Immigrants

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert The Wall Street Journal reports under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker. There are too many forms of identification…

Watch Out For Caller ID Spoofing

Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient’s caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating caller. Similar to e-mail spoofing which can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, caller ID spoofing can make…

Cell Phone Spying Nightmare: ‘You’re Never the Same’

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Technology makes it easier to connect with the people in your life, but it can also enable others to connect to you without your knowledge. The engine behind this is RATs, AKA “Remote Access Trojans.” RAT’s can capture every keystroke typed, take a snapshot of your screen and even take…

How to Spend More Money on Home Security

Lets face it, if you had it you’d spend it, and what better way than on your families security! In today’s high tech connected world a networked and remotely monitored home security system is the way to go. Keyless Access: Door locks that require a pincode make it easier to access without fumbling for keys.…

Copy Machines Can Store Your Private Info

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Today, copy machines, fax machines and many printers are just like computers; they’re smart and they have hard drives or flash drives and can store data that can be extracted. Peripherals in the olden days, just like when dot-com was a significant part of a person’s stock portfolio, were dumb.…

Social Media Sticky Situations

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Maybe you’re a Mom or a Dad, a Student or a Grad. No matter what you are, you have a reputation to protect. How we are viewed in society matters to most people. Being viewed as someone who is respectable, responsible, someone who has integrity and is generally a decent…