Entries by Robert Siciliano

Bankers Warned; Massive Credit Card Processor Breached

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Hackers have breached another huge payment processor. Who? As of this writing they aren’t saying. A statement issued by the Community Bankers Association of Illinois states “Visa announced that an unnamed processor recently reported that it discovered a data breach. The processors name has been withheld pending completion of the…

Recycle Your Phone? Sell it on eBay? Lose it? Still Have Your Data On It?

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker – Expert Cell phones are the invention of the 20th century. Its a computer and a phone. Its as cool as the invention of the wheel. Its the single most effective communication tool since the land line. Millions of cell phones are sold every year. Many are lost, stolen, millions…

Identity Theft Speaker Expert on National Television 2/24/09 M&J Show

Robert is in NYC Tues AM on the Morning Show with Mike and Juliet “M&J Investigates” work at home scams. http://www.mandjshow.com/about-the-show. Here are past shows: Holiday Scams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22ifUbTbiY Cyber Monday Scams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixn26vVTfns More here: http://www.youtube.com/user/stungundotcom Show times and listings http://www.mandjshow.com/about-the-show/ Homepage www.IDTheftsecurity.com LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertsiciliano Twitter https://twitter.com/RobertSiciliano FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/identitytheft Blog http://robertsiciliano.com/blog/ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/stungundotcom Finextra http://www.finextra.com/community/profile.aspx?id=44396 BankInnovation…

Phishing Attacks Rise Dramatically in 2008

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert – Speaker Stupid people get hooked by phishers. You have to be a complete idiot to get sucked into a scam email that has typos making requests that are geared toward naïve simple minded pea brain fools. Right? Yes? No? So why have phishing attacks risen dramatically in 2008? That’s…

Nuclear Weapons, CyberSecurity and an Unlocked Door.

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Speaker www.IDTheftSecurity.com What happens when you have an unlocked door at the home of and employee at the top U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory? How about 3 stolen computers with yet to be disclosed data, that was said to be non-classified. We hope. Were the computers stolen to be resold for…

Bank Robberies Spike, Blame The Economy?

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…

Quarter Million Dollar Bounty for Criminal Hacker

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…

Preventing Inside Jobs, Keeping Inside Hackers – Out

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!

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…

Tech Executives Are The New Sexy

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,…