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…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert If one could have a favorite scam, for me it would be “scareware.” My reasoning for this is thats it’s one of the few scams that actually gets through to me. My defenses are pretty good, but I still see scareware. They’ve even taken my blog posts and used my…
(BOSTON, Mass. – March 23, 2009 – IDTheftSecurity.com) Research recently released by the Ponemon Institute indicated that nearly 60 percent of employees stole data from their former employers. One of the easiest points of entry for unscrupulous, exiting employees is the employer’s mobile computing equipment, according to widely televised and quoted personal security and identity…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker Up until now, identity thieves have been hunting elephants. But that may soon change. According to this study, small to medium size businesses (SMB’s) are the criminal hackers next target. This should come as no surprise, as large enterprise networks have gradually become better at defending themselves. Over the past few…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Every week we learn of a new hack, another breach, credit cards stolen and another identity theft victim. Many have blamed the bad guy or criminal hackers for all the problems we have in the security world. And while the bad guy is certainly a problem, they are a small…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert How can I get you to believe me? What can I say or do to convince you I’m legit? What methods should I use to pull it off? I don’t have a job. I’m essentially unemployed. However I do have a career. And it involves figuring out ways to get…
