Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano Both Microsoft Certified Professional and Computerworld report on a variation of Conficker known as “Neeris.” Neeris is a 4 year old virus that has resurfaced and is now behaving like a Conficker wannabe. It is believed that the criminal hackers who created Conficker and Neeris are either the same person or are working together, double teaming…
Identity theft Expert Robert Siciliano A recent study conducted by the Unisys Corporation shows that identity theft as it pertains to credit card fraud is Americans’ number one concern. When people ask me, “How do I protect myself from credit card fraud?” I tell them, “Cancel the card, or never use it.” Because that’s the only…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Cyber crime profits are running into the trillions. Weekly, and often daily, I remind readers of how potentially screwed they are once they boot up their PCs and access the Internet. Identity theft is a real problem that messes up people’s lives. When someone’s PC is hacked and their passwords are compromised, account…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert We are not out of the woods with this one. Conficker’s rise and fall and the passing activity of the worm on April 1st has allowed researchers and anti-virus companies to better understand the virus and its impact. While April Fools was supposed to be the day of reckoning for…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert With the world watching Conficker has reached out but has not delivered any new malware. Computer World reports “We have observed that Conficker is reaching out, but so far none of the servers they are trying to reach are serving any new malware or any new commands,” said Toralv Dirro,…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Every day new reports of another flaw and another breach. Today we learn attacks rise 33 percent. I’m not surprised. Credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters. Silly criminal hackers need to tighten up their…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker News of Conficker out of control then under control is everywhere. 60 minutes reports on everything we have discussed in these posts. Main stream media has recognized the Internet has a cancerous virus and is infected. Criminal hackers are creating viruses infecting webpages in record numbers all in the name…
(BOSTON, Mass. – March 30, 2009 – IDTheftSecurity.com) Stolen laptop computers almost always end up indoors and connected to the Internet, according to Dan Yost, chief technology officer of laptop computer security firm MyLaptopGPS. He further noted that these circumstances at once hamper other laptop tracking systems and call for Internet-based GPS, MyLaptopGPS’ brand of laptop trackingtechnology. “GPS technologies such…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert There is a battle going on round the clock, between the bad hackers and the good hackers. Most of the time, the good guys lose. Here we have an example of the bad guy actually getting caught. At age 19, an Israeli criminal hacker named Ehud Tenebaum made news as…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Criminal hackers have created a virus that has slipped into millions of PCs and is set to strike on April Fools day. This is no joke. So far this year it is estimated that somewhere between 3 and 12 million computers have been compromised by the “Conficker” worm, also known…
