November 15th, 2009 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
I’ve been getting the same “direct message” from several of my Twitter followers. Apparently, their accounts have been hacked, because it’s a phishing message that says, “ROFL this you?” and contains a shortened URL.
The link leads to a page that resembles Twitter’s log in page. The web address is /videos.twitter.zoltykatalogfirm/. Don’t [...]
November 13th, 2009 Silver Spring, MD – Recognizing the need for continued education around identity theft prevention, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) and the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) jointly hosted National Protect Your Identity Week (PYIW) from October 17-24.
During that one week
95 NFCC Member Agencies and BBBs hosted events
150 events were held nationwide
Events were [...]
November 12th, 2009 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Years ago (like 20) a friend was graduating from college and moving away and a bunch of friends were throwing a party for this person. Collectively they asked me if I’d write a small speech as a version of “This is your life”. Stymied as to why they would ask [...]
November 9th, 2009 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Earlier this week, an IT employee was indicted for stealing the identities of 150 of his coworkers at Bank of New York Mellon, to the tune of 1.1 million bucks. He bilked almost $140,000 a year over an eight year period by compromising the online bank accounts of numerous employees and [...]
November 5th, 2009 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way to prevent accidental data leaks via file sharing programs [...]
November 3rd, 2009 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
For the past year, I’ve been screaming about the trouble with social media as it relates to identity theft, brand hijacking, privacy issues, and the opportunity social media creates for criminals to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false sense of trust and use that against their victims [...]
November 1st, 2009 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
The National Foundation for Credit Counseling, which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some common misinformation with regards to this increasingly common crime. This is the [...]