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Archive for January, 2010
Data Security Predictions For 2010
Sunday, January 10th, 2010Impostor Poses as Secret Service Agent and Police Officer
Friday, January 8th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert At a friend’s 40th birthday party, we wound up discussing my Craigslist ATM, and that led to a conversation about how easily people can be [...]
Reality Show Actor Robs Banks
Friday, January 8th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Here we have a series of bank robberies, an appearance on a nationally televised reality show and the arrest of a man who was running [...]
Pair Accused Of Stealing TSA Workers Identities
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert In my early 20’s I bought real estate in a depressed area north of Boston in Lynn Massachusetts. At 20, that’s all I could afford. [...]
11 Robbed of Pants in Home Invasion, Drug Related
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert At least three masked men broke into a home, made 11 people inside remove their pants, shot one man and fled with the pants, their [...]
How to Hack a Corporate Network…with Facebook
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert There’s a lot of excessive trust in the Facebook world. People have entirely dropped their sense of cynicism when logged on. They have no reason [...]
Florida’s Dumbest Criminals
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert There are all kinds of dumb. But “dumb and criminal” is hard to beat. Fox Tampa shamelessly (and we appreciate the candor) lets us all [...]
How I Wasted 4 Hours with a Criminal Hacker
Monday, January 4th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Lately I’ve been coming across “advertisements” on forums, posted by criminal hackers looking to sell our stolen information. They are “carders,” selling “dumps” and “fullz.” [...]
How a Burglar Works
Monday, January 4th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Without a doubt one of the most difficult jobs on the planet is to be a law enforcement officer. Enforcing the law means constantly dealing [...]
Resolve to Dissolve Identity Theft
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Here we are again, getting ready to face a new year. Time to set those dreaded New Year’s resolutions. You know, lose the 10 pounds, [...]