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Archive for February, 2010
Fostering Awareness & Improving Security Education
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Search Engines Link to Malware in Social Media Search
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Now that the 3 major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo index real-time search for Twitter and other social networks, consumers must be aware that [...]
Diploma Mills Facilitate Identity Theft
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Diploma mills were born along with elearning institutions who are actually legitimate and accredited bodies. Degrees and diplomas issued by diploma mills are frequently used [...]
mCrimes Morph Into mBotnets
Monday, February 15th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Botnets are robot networks of computers connected to the Internet that sit in our homes and offices. A botnet is generally banks of multiple PC’s [...]
Personal Security: Scareware Scares You In To Paying
Friday, February 12th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Makers of fake anti-virus software force people to buy ‘scareware’. If one could have a favorite scam, for me, it would be “scareware.” My reasoning [...]
EFT Point of Sales Hackers Net $50 Million
Friday, February 12th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Readers of these posts are familiar with ATM skimming. ATM skimming is a billion dollar problem and growing. A relatively new scam over the past [...]
Police Battle Break-in Trend
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Belmont Massachusetts is right near Boston. This is not too far from my house and it’s where people “Pahk the Cahh in Hahvad Yahd.” Police [...]
Citizens Need to be More Involved in Cybersecurity
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert In the University of Cincinnati’s Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the authors write “The general population must be engaged as active security providers, [...]
How Banks Fail to Provide Effective Online Security
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert A Texas bank is suing one of its customers who was hit by an $800,000 online bank theft that could determine who is to be [...]
Apartment Security 101
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert According to the National Crime Prevention Council, apartments have an 85 percent more chance of being burglarized. Homeowner or renter, everyone has the same cares [...]