June 15th, 2010 Love online. 20 years ago it wasn’t even a thought. 10 years ago it was weird. 5 years ago it was new and exciting. Today it’s as normal as milk and bread. If you are looking for a mate online you will eventually hit pay dirt. Most of my friends who tried it, succeeded at [...]
June 11th, 2010 A sex offender, who spent 11 years in a court-ordered treatment program to rehabilitate him, is looking for a relationship via Facebook.
Facebook is approaching the 500 million member mark worldwide. Chances are there are a few sex offenders in there somewhere. I’d guess anywhere between 1 and 3 percent have a penchant for violating another [...]
May 31st, 2010 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
You don’t need to own a house to become a victim of mortgage fraud. Heck, you don’t even need to be older than 3 to be a victim. As long as the thief has a Social Security number, they can apply for loans in your name.
Lexis-Nexis Mortgage Asset Research Institute [...]
May 27th, 2010 Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert
Danger!! How’s that for a blog title that screams fear, uncertainty and doubt!? Fact is Facebook boast 400 million users and is in so many ways seems out of the control of its founder, and is looking dangerous. This is a company that has grown faster than fast and has a [...]
May 25th, 2010 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
A Lynn Massachusetts couple was accused of selling the identities of at least 16 Transportation Security Administration workers at Logan International Airport.
Lynn was then and is now known as “Lynn Lynn the City of Sin, you don’t go out the way you come in.”
Fox News reports “A federal grand jury accused [...]
May 19th, 2010 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
Many of today’s automated processes are designed with security and/or convenience in mind. For example, if a credit card companies’ anomaly detection software detects irregular spending on your credit card the software may freeze your account or call you to make sure you are in-fact the one making the charge. While [...]
May 18th, 2010 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
The Anti Phishing Working Group published a new report seeking to understand such trends by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem, especially by examining domain name usage and phishing site uptimes. Phishing has always been attractive to criminals because it has low start-up costs and few barriers to entry. [...]
May 14th, 2010 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
Mobile Internet access and mobile service usage is growing rapidly and cyber criminals are expected to pay more attention to this sector. Mobile device platforms compete for innovation created by application developers and other content creators who are increasingly demanding more device access. As their requests grow in numbers and they [...]
May 13th, 2010 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
There seems to be a groundswell of people who are anti-Facebook today.
Google “Facebook” and “Privacy” and 761,000,000, that’s seven hundred and sixty-one million results come up in a quarter second. WHY? BECAUSE THERE IS AN OBVIOUS ISSUE WITH FACEBOOK AND PRIVACY. The major issue here is not that Facebook isn’t private, [...]
May 12th, 2010 Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
The FBI reported that last year, organized criminals made double what was reported in 2008. Phishing emails containing the name and logo of the FBI were one of the top money makers for scam artists.
Successful scams included auction scams where products were bought and paid for but product was not [...]