When Fonzie jumped the shark on his HOG, that spelt the end of Happy Days. The FTC sending a warning to 100 companies and agencies that their employees are leaking client and sensitive data on the web via Peer to Peer file sharing (P2P) is the single most pathetic and embarrassing communication to come across…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert By now you’ve heard about a Web site called PleaseRobMe.com. This site is re-posting people’s messages, and uses a location-sharing technology to post where you are when you’re not at home. The sites motivation is to teach people they are putting themselves at risk. I’m not a fan. There are…
A webcam is certainly one way the bad guy can get intelligence about you. They can use it to spy on you. They can listen into everything you say all day. They know when you are home or not, whether or not you have an alarm, they watch you. But in my opinion, the real…
What would you do if confronted by a bad guy? How would you respond? Freeze up? Run? Fight? You have been taught all of your life not to hurt another human being and that’s a good thing. From birth we are told to be kind to one another and have manners. This is called ‘civilized…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Approximately 155 million tax forms are filed annually. People need to understand that thieves are inventing new ways to steal identities each and every day. And since tax time is a key period when we see a spike in identity theft, it’s crucial that we get the word out now…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Everyday I see dozens of stories on home invasions. And there are unfortunately dozens of ways and reasons why home invasions occur. But one thing they all have in common is violence. Targets of home invasions vary from the homeowner who just happened to be home all the way to…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert You’re in high-school and you’ve been having numerous discussions with friends and family about what colleges you want to go to. Maybe you’ve even applied to a few and have been accepted and in some cases rejected. Your search for schools generally involves the type of education you will receive,…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Dan Yost Chief Technology Officer of MyLaptopGPS brought attention to the Ponemon Institute, with sponsorship from PGP, has released their “Fifth Annual U.S. Cost of Data Breach Study.” As usual, the report is a treasure trove of great data (just like most people’s laptops are). The average cost per breached…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert In the past decade we have witnessed child abductions like never before. One would be led to believe that “times have changed” and abductions are a new phenomena. The reality is child abductions have been going on since the beginning of time. In the 30’s, Charles Lindbergh Jr.’s 20 month…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Chip and PIN is the name of a government-backed initiative in the United Kingdom to implement the EMV standard for secure payments. There have been rumblings from Europe over the past year about American based credit cards that solely rely on the magnetic strip not being accepted in the future…
