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• 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 day 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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  Denise Richardson — Authority: 419
  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 ...
  6 days 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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Privacy Law Blog — Authority: 108
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 779
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Identity Theft Myths Part 1of3 During PYIW

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano During National Protect Your Identity Week we will be taking a fundamental approach to the issues. In the next 3 posts we’ll look at myths, compiled by the National Foundation for Credit Counselors (NFCC) who is sponsoring a “Protect Your Identity Week” October 17 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ridding the Web of the XSS Scourge

  
  Web 3.0 Technology.com — Authority: 143
  Cross-site scripting/SQL injection attacks have been blamed for numerous data breaches, perhaps most notably the nightmare of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. This type of attack has been around for at least a decade. However, the growing popularity of Web 2.0 applications and the tendency for programmers to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The VerizonBusiness Report – Interesting, But is It Useful?

  
  BlogInfoSec.com — Authority: 99
  Each year, the VerizonBusiness RISK Team issues its “Data Breach Investigations Report.” For the 2009 edition, see … www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/security/reports/2009_databreach_rp.pdf I was fortunate enough to attend the September 2009 Metro New York ISSA Meeting to hear a presentation on the report and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Over 800,000 doctors nationwide could be at risk of identity theft

  
  LifeLock.com Promo Code — Authority: 113
  Unless the name following your Doctor title is House, Who, Doom, Pepper or Zhivago, there might be a chance your confidential records were one of 800,000 records contained on a laptop that was recently stolen.The laptop, which was owned by a Blue Cross and Blue Shield employee in Chicago, was stolen out of the [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Stolen Laptops Continue to Expose Sensitive Data and Compromise Identities

  
  Denise Richardson — Authority: 419
  Laptops are a growing target of thieves and with skyrocketing laptopusage, the number of laptop thefts will continue to rise -and so toowill the number of identity thefts. In fact, various manufacturers of GPS tracking software for laptopspoint to research gathered from the FBI and large laptop insurers thatclaim that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Identity Theft Is Really No Big Deal. Idiot.

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 118
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert I make a portion of my living talking about identity theft. Admittedly, I profit from the crime. I don’t steal identities of course, but I get paid because others steal. I’m not FBI, CIA, Secret Service or a cop. But you wouldn’t disparage any of those entities for doing ...
  4 weeks ago

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