Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Recent reports abound of consumers email account being phished and American and Egyptian authorities arresting dozens of people in an online fraud crackdown for phishing scams. Its time to revisit the fundamentals of how to prevent phishing. Nobody can do this better than the Anti Phishing Work Group Phishing Defined…
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano US and Egyptian officials have charged 100 people with orchestrating a phishing scam that robbed a$1.5m from Bank of America and Wells Fargo customers. 53 criminals from CA, NV and NC were named in an indictment. This is the largest ever charged in a cybercrime case. Officials in Egypt nabbed…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Hotmail, Earthlink, Google, Yahoo, Comcast and other web-based email users have been giving up al their login details to phishers and current estimates are as many as 1 million accounts may have been compromised. News of the scam broke when technology blog neowin.net reported an anonymous user had published confidential details…
Robert Siciliano identity theft expert Passwords and forms harass and mock me every day of my life. Everywhere I go there is a big burly bouncer who is the password gatekeeper and he needs a beating. He won’t let me in or by the velvet ropes unless I know the secret code. Most of the…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Whether you realize it or not, your computer is one of the biggest threats to your personal security. The Obama administration believes that your computer is also one of the biggest threats to national security. The message is: Think before you click. Know who’s on the other side of that instant…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Computerworld reports the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Informed P2P User Act, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. Yawn. The bill now goes to the House for one more round of approval. If passed, the bill requires developers to explain to users…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Wired reports the inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is investigating a potential data breach affecting 70 million records of U.S. military veterans. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair without first destroying the data. Once the drive…
ConsumersUnion provides a resource for consumers to learn what their options are in regards to a “security or credit freeze”. “There are more than eight million new victims of identity theft each year in the U.S. Many of these victims find that crooks have used stolen personal information like Social Security numbers to open new…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert A new kind of Trojan horse infiltrates your online bank account, and not only steals your log-in information, but also siphons funds directly out of your account. The virus is known as URLZone, is controlled by servers in the Ukraine, and it determines how much money to steal from a victim’s…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Technology keeps providing new opportunities for harassment: social media identity theft, cell phone abuse, online bullying, the list goes on. Over a year ago, I appeared on The Tyra Show to discuss high tech harassment. I met a family from Washington, who found that several of their phones had been hacked and were…
