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Government Tries to Thwart P2P Identity Theft
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Computerworld reports the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Informed P2P User Act, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P…
Identity Theft Expert and Speaker on Personal Security Says Recent News Underscores Implications of Research Linking P2P Networks to Data Breaches
…ted identity theft after obtaining the needed information via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. According to Robert Siciliano, a widely televised and quoted personal security and identity theft expert, the…
P2P on Your PC Equals Identity Theft
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker Peer to peer file sharing is a great technology used to share data over peer networks. It’s also great software to get hacked. The House Committee on Ov…
When FTC Sends a Warning, Data Theft Has Jumped the Shark
When Fonzie jumped the shark on his HOG, that spelt the end of Happy Days. The FTC sending a warning to 100 companies and agencies that their employees are leaking client and sensitive data on the …
P2P File Sharing On College Campuses
Peer-to-peer file sharing, or P2P, has become enormously popular on college campuses across the country because it allows students to easily exchange music and video files over the Internet. Tens of …
Congress Breached via P2P Filesharing…AGAIN!
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 …
Identity Theft Is Easy Over P2P
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Peer to peer file sharing is a great technology used to share data over peer networks. It’s also great software to get hacked and have your identity stolen. Ins…
Data Breaches Persist In Health Care
…linical Health (HITECH) Act went into effect, requiring hospitals and other health care organization to beef up client data protections. Despite this, a recent study found that health care data is sti…
Identity Theft: P2P Networks Invite Online Thieves—Identity Theft Expert and Speaker on Personal Security
… on television how file-sharing programs can render the contents of a computer’s hard viewable to online thieves. A new study has now shown that peer-to-peer network users may be inadvertently c…
Five Ways Identities Are Stolen Online
…ect their identities. Five of the most common ways identities are stolen online are through phishing scams, P2P file sharing, social networking, malicious websites, and malicious attachments. Phishing…
100 Million Facebook Profiles Published via P2P
…ge amounts of data. Facebook takes on the issue is the data that was scraped wasn’t private at all. To a degree, I agree. The data is being shared through the site, it’s already public. Here’s how it…
Top 5 Scams to Watch Out For
#1 Nigerian Scams: According to a Dutch study, victims of advanced-fee scams, which are also known as 419 scams or Nigerian scams, lost more than $9 billion in 2009, almost 50% more than the previous…
Tax Related Identity Theft Scams Up 300%
d numbers, or even pose as the IRS. Below is more information for those common and lesser-known tax scams to watch out for. Employment Identity Theft Scams: If you ever receive documentation in the…
The Twelve Scams of Christmas," or Popular Online Attacks This Holiday Season Pt IV of IV
As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee, Inc. revealed the “Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the twelve most dangerous online scams that computer users should be cautious…
10 Business Identity Theft Risks in 2010
…tion. But preventing bad employees from doing bad things starts with not hiring bad people. Phishing scams still work. Despite consumer and employee awareness, a carefully crafted and well designed em…
419 Scams Double, Over $9 Billion in Profits
Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert A recent study by Dutch investigation firm Ultrascan shows we are half as smart (or twice as dumb) as we were in 2008 as advanced fee scams doubled in losses …
THIEVES INITIATE NEW IDENTITY THEFT SCAMS IN TIME FOR TAX SEASON
uni-ball® teams with Identity Theft Resource Center and Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano to Warn Consumers of Latest Scams and Offer Anti-Theft Solutions Oak Brook, Ill. – March 4, 2009 – Tax …
A Few Years Worth of Media for Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano
tId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464794,00.html (appeared December 2008 Internet Scams Targeting Growing Out of Work Population) 25) http://video.aol.com/video-search/tag/%20Robert…