MIT: Reality Mining Protects Your Identity
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
Reality Mining defines the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior. This new paradigm of data mining makes possible the modeling of conversation context, proximity sensing, and temporospatial location throughout large communities of individuals.
Swatting Exploits Use Technology To Harm
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service into dispatching an emergency response team. Caller ID spoofing technologies are used to send law officers on bogus calls along with social engineering and phone phreaking techniques. Most people trust caller ID and are unaware of caller ID spoofing. This is obviously a flawed system ripe for fraud.
Comcast Homepage Hackers Indicted
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
The hackers ages 19 and 20 at the time known as Defiant and EBK from a group calling themselves Kryogeniks. Where they screwed up during their stunt was when they changed the contact information for the Comcast.net domain to Defiant’s e-mail address. Brilliant hackers yet not so smart.
What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
Once a predator uses your Internet connection to go to into the bowels of the web, your Internet Protocol address, which is connected to your ISP billing address, is now considered one that is owned by a criminal. If law enforcement happens to be chatting with that person, who’s using your Internet connection to trade lurid porn, then someone may eventually knock on your door at 3 AM with a battering ram. And in freakish and relatively new twist, hackers can use a virus to crack your network and gain remote control access, and then store illicit porn on your hard drive.
Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies
Daniel Wallace, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward
The notion that social media sites are little more than a trendy consumer oriented technology is misguided. Most business activities have legal ramifications and social media is no exception., and legal issues can arise when an organization does not adequately address social media with company policy.
Social Media Scams Plague Networks
By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com
We hear about a new Twitter phishing scam almost daily, whether it’s via direct messaging or a shortened URL. Not too long ago, it was big news when someone had their Facebook account jacked by someone who impersonated the victim, claiming to have lost their wallet in the UK and begging for a money wire. Lately, I see a story about another victim every week…
