Entries by Robert Siciliano

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,…

Identity Theft Expert and MyLaptopGPS: Computer Security Breaches Reported within Days of Each Other Involve Nearly 40,000 Unique Data Records

(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…

Malicious insider attacks to rise. McAfee has a warning

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…

Identity Theft Rising; Hits Record 10M Americans in 2008

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…

Identity Theft Expert; “Phexting” is the new phish “I ain’t got stupid written on my forehead”

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Article here; Text Message Scam Interviewed for this article the victims states “I ain’t got stupid written on my forehead” I’m sure she is a lovely woman who must be smarter than her quote. She received a scam text and didnt get taken. Most of us are somewhat aware…

Identity Theft Expert; Are You Addicted to Information Insecurity?

Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano www.IDTheftSecurity.com Article here;Are You Addicted to Information Insecurity? Ben Rothke writes a great article that ties in addiction and information Insecurity, thats IN-security. Face it, you may be an addict. You might have an addiction to something like sugar, nicotine, alcohol, sex, gambling, addicted emotionally to another person , or…