Identity theft expert John Sileo believes that LifeLock has been the victim of its own type of identity theft, and it will ultimately improve their identity monitoring product.

Recently, LifeLock, the identity theft prevention marketing machine, lost a piece of who they are (were) when a judge removed their most fundamental prevention tool -- automatic fraud alerts on consumer credit reports. The… Continue

Added by Identity Theft Expert on September 4, 2009 at 8:43am — No Comments

Data Breach Security: Why TJX is Your Fault (and Mine)

TJX lost somewhere between 40 and 90 million customer records, and there is a good chance yours was one of them if you shop at T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods or A.J. Wright. If only 10% of those breached records were ever used to commit identity fraud (let’s say 7.5 million records, to be conservative), at the average cost of identity theft recovery ($700), the damage to you and me is approximately $490 Million. So TJX paid about a 2% penalty for… Continue

Added by Identity Theft Expert on June 24, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

How to Be the Best at What You Do

What do you want to learn about? I'm going to go with one of my passions: engineering. If you want to learn how to do something, then you need to follow some very strict and disciplined guidelines. 1. You cannot give up or change your mind. 2. You have to understand learning a general subject and becoming an expert requires years of training before you can take of your "training wheels". 3. You cannot call yourself an expert on something you do not have more than 2 years of experience with. 4.… Continue

Added by Anonymous on May 5, 2009 at 2:33pm — No Comments

Phishing Attacks Rise Dramatically in 2008

Identity Theft Expert - Speaker

Stupid people get hooked by phishers. You have to be a complete idiot to get sucked into a scam email that has typos making requests that are geared toward naïve simple minded pea brain fools. Right? Yes? No? So why have phishing attacks risen dramatically in 2008? That’s 66% higher than in 2007.

Have we gotten dumber or are the attackers getting smarter?

RSA concluded that phishing attacks rose to an unprecedented…

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Added by Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on February 20, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

Bank Robberies Spike, Blame The Economy?

Robert Siciliano

Identity Theft Speaker Expert

Often I’m called to provide perspective on breaking news as it relates to personal security, violence and fraud. Tonight it was bank robbery. In Boston a white male suspect in his 20’s has robbed at least 4 banks since Feb. 3rd and two of those were done today within a few miles of each other.

In the first, he went up to a teller who was in training, startled, she said she did not have any money in the drawer and he left the bank…

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Added by Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on February 18, 2009 at 6:59am — No Comments

Quarter Million Dollar Bounty for Criminal Hacker

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker and Expert

In a Microsoft press release a global bounty has been offered for the arrest and prosecution of whoever has created and released the “conficker” virus.

Conficker was released in the last quarter of 2008 and has infected a wide estimate of 2 million to 10 million PCs. After issuing patches, Microsoft…

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Added by Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on February 17, 2009 at 4:30am — 2 Comments

Preventing Inside Jobs, Keeping Inside Hackers - Out

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Speaker and Expert

Are you familiar with a “Logic Bomb”? This is a brilliant piece of code, a virus, designed for destruction. The goal of a logic bomb is to disable existing systems that may monitor data, protect it, back it up or access it. A logic bomb is designed to multiply like any virus and spread throughout a network multiplying its effects.

In a…

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Added by Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on February 16, 2009 at 4:55am — 2 Comments

Tech Executives Are The New Sexy

Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert - Speaker

Not to long ago the CIO was a pocket protected, sugared up, soda pop drinking, potato chip eating, caffeinated, non sociable…..well….geek. Not anymore. But you knew that. Serious, Geek is getting even more sexy, stripper pole sexy. A familiar story, a colleague of mine built a tech startup, it has gone from $4 million to $175 million in 3 years. He tells me behemoth tech companies literally send scantily clad hotties…

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Added by Identity Theft Speaker Robert Siciliano on February 13, 2009 at 6:36am — No Comments