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What Does It Take To Be Digitally Secure?

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 4:20am by Robert Siciliano

Let’s get one thing straight: it’s no longer possible to deny that your life in the physical world and your digital life are one and the same. Meaning, while you are present here on the ground, you also exist online, whether you know it or like it or not. Coming to terms with this reality Read more…

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Mobile Wallets—How I Make Mobile Payments Securely

Friday, May 11, 2012 at 9:13am by Robert Siciliano

Some say there will be a day when the wallet you carry in your pocket or purse will become obsolete. The plan is to eliminate all our credit cards, store cards, and IDs and use our mobile phones as our primary means of commerce and identification. The technology behind mobile wallet or mobile POS (point Read more…

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Are Tablets Just As Vulnerable As Mobile Phones?

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 10:42am by Robert Siciliano

With unit sales of smartphones and tablets eclipsing those of desktop and notebook PCs, cybercriminals will continue setting their sights on mobile, and increased mobile Internet use will continue exacerbating security and data breach issues. McAfee Labs™ points out today’s tablets are more powerful than notebooks were just a few years ago. Although their lack Read more…

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Mobile and Phishing – Why It’s More Dangerous

Friday, May 4, 2012 at 4:39am by Robert Siciliano

Phishing occurs when scammers send emails that appear to have been sent by legitimate, trusted organizations in order to lure recipients into clicking links and entering login data and other credentials. SMiShing is a version of phishing in which scammers send text messages rather than emails, which, as with phishing emails, appear to have been Read more…

What Are The Risks Of Mobile Spam?

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 9:52am by Robert Siciliano

Spammers send unwanted emails or texts that are both annoying and frightening. Most spam messages are useless advertisements selling stuff you don’t need or want. In 1995, 8,069 unique pieces of malware were detected. One out of 20 emails were spam, and the Melissa virus infected hundreds of thousands. By 2010, 54 million unique pieces of malware were Read more…

Free Mobile Apps = Drained Battery

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 4:55am by Robert Siciliano

Go through your smartphone right now. Look at each app and seriously consider whether you need it. If not, delete it. Then, determine which of the free apps are worth upgrading to the paid versions, since free apps that contain advertising that puts an additional drain on your battery. Using a special energy-profiling tool, researchers Read more…

Your New Best Friend May Not Protect You

Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 5:14am by Robert Siciliano

Your mobile phone may arguably be your new best friend. There are few people, places, or things in our lives today that get as many hours of attention as your mobile phone or is with you as often (and for some of us, that means 24/7). Four out of seven people on the planet have Read more…

Spring Cleaning Your PC

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 4:31am by Robert Siciliano

If your PC is bogged down with useless software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is the increased likelihood that if you have lost track of your files, you could easily have sensitive personal information exposed without your knowledge. Read more…

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FCC and Carriers to Create Stolen Phone Consortium

Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 1:37pm by Robert Siciliano

Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in serious injury or even death. TechNewsWorld reports “Ten years ago, mobile phone thefts accounted for about 8% of New York City’s Read more…

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Utah Medicaid Breach Serves as Another Wakeup Call

Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 1:36pm by Robert Siciliano

An employee of the Utah State Department of technology must have hit the snooze button when he launched a test server that resulted in the breach of 780,000 Medicaid records including over 250,000 Social Security numbers. The Governor of Utah was quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune saying “Individuals provide sensitive personal information to the Read more…

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