Robert Siciliano Often I’m called to provide perspective on breaking news as it relates to personal security, violence and fraud. Tonight it was bank robbery. In Boston a white male suspect in his 20’s has robbed at least 4 banks since Feb. 3rd and two of those were done today within a few miles of…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker and Expert In a Microsoft press release a global bounty has been offered for the arrest and prosecution of whoever has created and released the “conficker” virus. Conficker was released in the last quarter of 2008 and has infected a wide estimate of 2 million to 10 million PCs. After…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker and Expert Are you familiar with a “Logic Bomb”? This is a brilliant piece of code, a virus, designed for destruction. The goal of a logic bomb is to disable existing systems that may monitor data, protect it, back it up or access it. A logic bomb is designed to…
Unlucky in Love? Feb. 13th is Your Lucky Day! Hi, Lisa Daily, friend and colleage wrote a great book “How to Date Like a Grown-Up: Everything You Need to Know to Get Out There, Get Lucky, or Even Get Married in Your 40s, 50s and Beyond” and featured me and my tips on safe dating…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert – Speaker Not to long ago the CIO was a pocket protected, sugared up, soda pop drinking, potato chip eating, caffeinated, non sociable…..well….geek. Not anymore. But you knew that. Serious, Geek is getting even more sexy, stripper pole sexy. A familiar story, a colleague of mine built a tech startup,…
(BOSTON, Mass. – Feb. 13, 2009 – IDTheftSecurity.com) News this past week of data breaches at just two healthcare organizations apparently involved nearly 40,000 unique data records. One was the theft of a laptop computer hospital near Dallas, Texas. Widely televised and quoted personal security and identity theft expert Robert Siciliano advised healthcare organizations to…
Robert Siciliano 2/12/2 Millennials, the next generation of technology savvy workers are coming to a cubicle near you. They are a generation of technogeeks that dont know they are techno or geeks. I had a rattle. They had a PS2. This generation knows enough to fix it and enough to break it. They are the…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert www.IDTheftSecurity.com The world’s biggest software maker has warned companies to expect an increase in “insider” security attacks by disgruntled, laid-off workers. With millions losing their jobs their are a plethora of opportunities for insiders to plug in an iPod, thumdrive or other external source and steal client data, or other…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker 2/11/09 “I am Mr. Ming Yang, I have an obscured business suggestion for you. Your services will be paid for. Contact mr_mingyang_desk45@hotmail.com” Mr Yang sent me an email just now. He wants…my services…? Or something. He’s not my type. My type doesn’t have a filthy virus. Plus he is a…
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker 2/9/09 Number of fraud victims rises in 2008, but average loss per theft falls, according to a recent study. Article Here It should come as no surprise that identity theft incidents are climbing. Over the past year we have seen hundreds of data breaches resulting in millions and millions of…
