Criminals Use Holidays For Scamming @McAfeeConsumer

20 Dec 2012 · 1 min

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This content was created by Robert Siciliano. This content was uploaded by Robert Siciliano. This is a YouTube video titled "Criminals Use Holidays For Scamming @McAfeeConsumer" (uploaded 2012-12-20). The excerpt is a multi-speaker consumer-security segment in which three speakers discuss online crime statistics, the dangers of oversharing on social media, and how criminals exploit holidays to steal property or personal information. The clip references advice from Siciliano about staying alert and thinking about how your information might be used by attackers.

This is something I found a little disturbing. There's a study on the internet. Internet Security says every single day around the world, 1.5 million people are victims of cybercrime.
Kinda scary. Well, add that to this little statistic: the equivalent of one person every 18 seconds by that calculation. And sometimes we make it easy for the internet crooks. How many times have you seen Facebook posts or tweets talking about vacations? Someone announces where they're going and when they'll be gone. You think only your friends are paying attention, but an internet That security expert told me bad guys might be following you too.
Social media is, you know, people blabbing about their lives today, and often they are providing enough intelligence to the bad guy to tell the bad guy where you are to do harm to you, or where you aren't to do harm to your stuff, your house.
So Siciliano's advice is be alert and think about how your information might be used against you. He also says computer crooks follow the calendar, and they know the holidays offer an opportune time for them to steal from you, whether it's your property or your personal information that they can get from you online.