Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Willie Sutton, when asked, "Why do you rob banks" he said "Thats where the money is!" Why hack your online bank account? Because thats where the money is! White Hat Hackers (good guys) probably never anticipated whats happening. There are more viruses out there than ever. Black Hat Hackers (bad guys) are in full force. Back
25 February 2009 /security
Here we go. 2009 is the year of the processor breach. We will see the biggest of the biggest data breaches disclosed. They hacked'em in 2008, we find out about'em in 2009. This one is a bit of a mystery. Hackers have breached another huge payment processor. Who? As of this writing they aren’t saying. A statement issued by the Community Bankers As
24 February 2009 /security
If I had a choice to give up my car or my mobile phone, I'd keep the phone. My mobile is a weapon of success. When the media or a client needs me (or someone like me) I'm right there trumping the competition. Calls received immediately or retuned in 2 minutes wherever I am in the world. Millions of cell phones are sold every year. Many are lost, s...
23 February 2009 /security
Robert Siciliano 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
20 February 2009 /security
Robert Siciliano What happens when you have an unlocked door at the home of and employee at the top U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory? How about 3 stolen computers with yet to be disclosed data, that was said to be non-classified. We hope. Were the computers stolen to be resold for crack? Or for nuclear weapons secrets? We may never know. Or we ma
19 February 2009 /security /regulation
Robert Siciliano 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
18 February 2009 /security /regulation
by Robert Siciliano 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 estimates approximately 3
17 February 2009 /security /retail
Robert Siciliano 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...
16 February 2009 /security /retail
Robert Siciliano 2/13/2 Not too 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
13 February 2009 /security /regulation
Robert Siciliano 2/12/2 Millennials, the next generation of technology savvy workers are coming to a cubicle near you. They are a generation of technogeeks that dont know they are techno or geeks. I had a rattle. They had a PS2. This generation knows enough to fix it and enough to break it. They are the best thing and the worst thing to happen to
12 February 2009 /security /regulation
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