Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
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 data security [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
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 [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
(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 as [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
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 “The Analyzer,” [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
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 as “Downup,” [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
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 name [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
(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 [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
There is just no end to the vulnerabilities that computer users face. SQL injection. SQL is abbreviation of Structured Query Language. Pronounced ”Ess Que El” or ”Sequel” depending on who you ask.
IBM Internet Security Systems discovered 50% more web pages infected in the last quarter of 2008 than in the entire year of 2007.
The infection is called [...]
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Posted on March 20th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
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 years, criminal hackers [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Robert Siciliano
Start at the bottom for the most recent. Some links may not work.
Televised News
Following is a representative collection of links to Siciliano’s appearances on televised news:
1) http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=186566959&play=1 Feb. 22, 2007 appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to discuss identity theft security
2) http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=215389422&play=1 (March 16, 2007 appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to discuss peer-to-peer computer networks as they pertain to data [...]
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