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Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 28/02/2011 | 2970 views | 1 comment

4 Reasons 2011 is the Year to Get Serious About Security

Prognosticators are silly. Or that’s how I’ve always viewed them, anyway. They combine past experience with their perspective on current trends to make predictions and pretend to be smarter than you. Many prognosticators in the financial world have failed miserably, and we’re all paying the price now. Their current excuse is &ldq... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 24/02/2011 | 3490 views

mCrime Perfectly Positioned to Pounce in 2011

The number of households in the United States that rely solely on wireless telephones continues increasing. More than one in four households had cell phones and no landlines in the first half of 2010, which is an increase of 2.1% since the second half of 2009. And almost one in six households uses cell phones exclusively or almost exclusively despi... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 22/02/2011 | 3161 views

Criminal Hackers Responsible For Most Data Breaches

According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were at least 662 data breaches in 2010, which exposed more than 16 million records. Nearly two-thirds of breaches exposed Social Security numbers, and 26% involved credit or debit card data. The ITRC elaborated, “Other than breaches reported by the media and a few progressive state webs... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 16/02/2011 | 2286 views

Shoring Up National Cyber Security Infrastructure

The wild, wild web is the most exciting, alluring, and all-around awesome thing available to us today. It’s also something we have come to rely on to a fault. And that’s a little scary. The Internet is a decentralized wilderness, used by billions of devices worldwide. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Af... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 15/02/2011 | 2948 views

Survey Shows Account Takeover Fraud Drops

Account takeover happens when your existing bank or credit card accounts are infiltrated and money is siphoned out. A hacked account or stolen credit card is often to blame. The drop in account takeover may be due in part to a few different things. Less breaches. There was a drop in data breaches from 221 million records in 604 breaches during 20... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation