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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Rise in criminal hacking 33 percent

Credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters. Silly criminal hackers need to tighten up their data security controls and not publish sensitive data like that! Reuters reports - Fraud on the Internet reported to U.S. authorities increased by 33 percent last y

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Conficker Countdown

60 minutes reports on everything we have discussed in these posts. Main stream media has recognized the Internet has a cancerous virus and is infected. Criminal hackers are creating viruses infecting webpages in record numbers all in the name of money. Security professionals are losing sleep as they race against the bad guys in anticipation of th

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Hacker infiltrates banks, loads prepaid gift cards, caught

Occasionally we witness the underground coming above ground to face the music. Here what could be considered a brilliant hacker who even owned and operated a security company, is enemy number one. At age 19, an Israeli criminal hacker named Ehud Tenebaum made news as “The Analyzer,” (a great tag for a criminal hacker) after he cracked and penetrate...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Conficker worm is coming April 1st

Security professionals’ globally are gearing up to be fooled or fool criminal hackers on April 1st. So far this year it is estimated that somewhere between 3 and 12 million computers have been compromised by the “Conficker” worm, also known as “Downup,” “Downadup” and “Kido,” possibly considered the largest known global botnet. Microsoft and other...

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Scammers making millions with scareware

If one could have a favorite scam, for me it would be “scareware.” My reasoning for this is thats it’s one of the few scams that actually gets through to me. My defenses are pretty good, but I still see scareware. They’ve even taken my blog posts and used my name to launch scareware in Google News Alerts. I got some criminal hacker’s attention an

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Study Says PCI Level 3-4 The Criminal Hackers New Target

Up until now, identity thieves have been hunting elephants. But that may soon change. According to this study, small to medium size businesses (SMB's) are the criminal hackers next target. This should come as no surprise, as large enterprise networks have gradually become better at defending themselves. Over the past few years, criminal hacker

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Study; 38 Percent of Euro IT Security Poor. Surprised?

Every week we learn of a new hack, another breach, credit cards stolen and another identity theft victim. Many have blamed the bad guy or criminal hackers for all the problems we have in the security world. And while the bad guy is certainly a problem, they are a small part. The people responsible for their own physical or computer security or the

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

My Brilliance Is Everywhere

I'm very smart. I'm in the news, I'm on TV, in print, I'm written about constantly in blogs and I'm very very famous. Every day people try to be me and some are very successful at it. I have many many copy cats who one-up me daily. Its not easy being me, but its lots of fun. I don’t have a job. I’m essentially unemployed. However I do have a car

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Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Cybersquatting Rises 18 Percent As Fraud Rises

The Hammer of the Gods came down on me. I pissed off Led Zeppelins lawyers. It wasn't intentional, I was just a fan. There wasn't even a term for it when I did it. What was it? Cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is the act of procuring someone elses trademarked brand name online as a dot com or any other US based extension. Cyber squatters squat for ma...

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