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Archive for: April, 2009

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 30/04/2009 | 4666 views | 1 comment

Identity Thieves Love P2P

Last week Palo Alto Networks released the third edition of its Application Usage and Risk Report that found an average of Six P2P variants in 92% of the sample – with some organizations unknowingly hosting as many as 17 P2P variants. The study examines the real traffic of 900,000 users at 60+ organizations (public and private sector). And Tags: Security, Online banking

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 28/04/2009 | 4249 views

Phishers are using better bait

It wasn’t long ago that most phishing emails were from a supposed Nigerian General Matumbi Mabumboo Watumboo. And you and I were flattered that we were the chosen ones to help the general transfer 35 million out of the country, because the Nigerian government was a bunch of jerks and wouldn’t let him keep the inheritance his wife had Tags: Security, Online banking

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 24/04/2009 | 7320 views | 2 comments

Social media and the road to hate

I was on CNN this week and CNN also featured Perez Hilton, who was hired by Donald Trump, to judge a beauty contest and Hilton made hateful remarks about Miss Californias beliefs. Perez is a hateful sardonic celebrity critic, and his actions are parallel to others who rant and hate, spew racist comments and even kill. CNN invited me to discuss ... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 21/04/2009 | 7714 views | 5 comments

Identity is a simple idea that has become a complex problem

Identity has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money, easy credit, and the ease of account takeover. Because identity has yet to be effectively established, anyone can be you. “Identity has yet to be established” is a bold statement that really requires an entire blog post. I’ll explain briefly here and in detail... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Robert Siciliano - IDTheftSecurity.com - Boston | 18/04/2009 | 2666 views

US Government Hacking Like Criminals

The US National Security Agency is probably the most sophisticated group of security hackers in the world. Many will argue this point. The fact is, without NSA, US STRATCOM, which directs the operation and defense of the military’s Global Information Grid, and US CERT, attacks on our critical infrastructures would be successful. We’d ... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation