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• SWATting, Using Technology To Hurt

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ...
  2 days ago

• Hackers Indicted for Jacking Comcast

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano identity theft expert One hacked email address led to the defacement of Comcasts homepage. When the hackers called Comcasts technical contact to let him know all 200 Comcast domain names and Comcast homepage were vulnerable, he hung up on them. It has not been disclosed how the email was ...
  3 days ago

• SWATting, Using Technology To Hurt

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Swatting is making prank calls to emergency services. In the field of information security, swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 911 operator ) to dispatch an emergency response team, generally a SWAT team. SWAT is ( Special Weapons and Tactics ...
  3 days ago

• Study shows ID Theft risk climbs by five times after data breach

  
  LifeLock.com Promo Code — Authority: 115
  Data breaches have become a common occurrence. We post about them nearly weekly here at LifeLockPromotionCode.net. Now a recent study by Javelin Research, a financial services research firm, shows an alarming coorelation between those involved in massive data losses and ID theft victims.To start, nearly 1 in 9 people ...
  4 days ago

• Money Mules Facilitate Identity Theft and Fraud

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic criminals use in ...
  6 days ago

• Southwestern Bell sued for alleged DMV data grab

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Joe Harris reports: Southwestern Bell is the latest in a series of class-action defendants accused of using misrepresentations to get confidential data from a Department of Motor Vehicles database “for commercial purposes.” The complaint against SW Bell is the third that Kansas City attorney Mitchell Burgess ...
  6 days ago

• I Bought an ATM off Craigslist for $750 w/1000 CC#s on it. Yup.

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert After the Vegas DEFCON ATM debacle where hackers hacked hackers by setting up a fake ATM in front of the facilities security office, I needed to see how stupid easy it was to buy and ATM and just set it up anywhere. So my search began. I started looking on e-bay and found ...
  1 week ago

• Why is Child Pornography on Your PC?

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always stressed the ...
  1 week ago

• Smarten Up. Increase Your Information Security Vocabulary

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  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 me to do ...
  1 week ago

• Is Identity Theft Alive and Well? And who really cares?

  
  Denise Richardson — Authority: 121
  Forget about who is minding the store. The more important question here is who is protecting the identities of consumers? Which businesses care about protecting our data? Are there any financial institutions taking this crime seriously? If not, why arent they? If financial companies, creditors, and other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mistake Exposes Personal Information of Chaminade University Students

  
  Educational Security Incidents (ESI) - Sometimes the free flow of information is unintentional — Authority: 104
  Quick Facts Date: 11/6/2009 Institution: Chaminade University Type of Incident: Unauthorized Disclosure Number Affected: 4,500 Source: DataBreaches.net Abstract Source: Star Bulletin Abstract Chaminade University recently announced that a mistake exposed personal information on thousands of students. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Insider Identity Theft Can Be Most Damaging

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who Cares If A List of Email Addresses Gets Stolen?

  
  Privacy Law Blog — Authority: 110
  A typical corporate data security policy classifies consumer contact information as confidential, but not “highly confidential” or “sensitive.”  Should mere contact information be afforded greater protection? One case on point has dragged on since late 2007, when Ameritrade reported that a database of its ...
  3 weeks ago

• State Job Website Has Great Opportunities For Self-Starting Identity Thieves [Fail]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 795
  CBS 5 exposed a "gaping hole" in the code of Californias state-run employment website that allows anyone who views the site to access and modify other users resumes and personal info simply by changing some numbers in the URL. CBS 5 spoke with a man who had uploaded his resume to CalJOBS, the state jobs website ...
  4 weeks ago

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