Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano Its not often that I get to report on the victim becoming the victor. It’s nice to see the good guys win one. I met a charismatic gent on FOX and Friends named Sean Seibel. Sean has a unique job title at Microsoft: User Experience Evangelist. Sean’s job is to be on…
Identity Theft Expert What a week. Just when it starts to get boring, criminal hackers put on a spectacular show. Criminal hackers continue to step up to the plate. Security professionals are fighting, and sometimes losing, the battle. Here’s one week’s worth of hacks: Lexis Nexis, which owns ChoicePoint, an information broker I recently blogged…
Identity Theft Expert If only our noses grew every time we lied. Life would be so transparent. Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing certain actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information…
My information is in lots and lots of different places. I sacrifice a lot of privacy because of the nature of my business. If I wasnt so dependant on eyeballs I’d live much differently. However to participate in society on any level, privacy becomes a dead issue. Accept it. Or live in the jungle in…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker Peer to peer file sharing is a great technology used to share data over peer networks. It’s also great software to get hacked. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is responding to reports that peer to peer file sharing allows Internet users to access other P2P users’ most important…
Identity Theft Expert It wasn’t long ago that most phishing emails were from a supposed Nigerian General Matumbi Mabumboo Watumboo. And you and I were flattered that we were the chosen ones to help the general transfer 35 million out of the country, because the Nigerian government was a bunch of jerks and wouldn’t let him…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert I was on CNN this week and CNN also featured Perez Hilton, who was hired by Donald Trump, to judge a beauty contest and Hilton made hateful remarks about Miss Californias beliefs. Perez is a hateful sardonic celebrity critic, and his actions are parallel to others who rant and hate,…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Like it or not, you will soon be effectively identified. And by “soon,” I mean within the next 10 years. Big Brother, whatever that means, will have your “number.” Governments across the globe have been gearing up and introducing numerous technologies to identify, verify and authenticate. Identity is a…
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano This article may be a little political. However bad guys are trying to win a cyberwar against us and it’s important to understand what’s being done to protect us. The US National Security Agency is probably the most sophisticated group of security hackers in the world. Many will argue this point. The…
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano New reports confirm what we have been seeing in the news; organized criminals have upped the ante. Global web mobs are tearing up financial institutions’ networks. We’ve known for some time that the long-haired, lowly, pot-smoking, havoc-reeking hacker, sitting alone in his mom’s basement, hacking for fun and fame is…
