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As a blogger, Heidi writes about cybercrime and fraud perpetrated against enterprises and consumers. As a Mom and consumer, Heidi also writes about how cybercrime affects us in our day-to-day lives. In her day job, she is a Senior Marketing Programs Manager focused on creating programs to drive awareness of RSA’s anti-fraud technologies in the marketplace. She brings over five years of experience working within RSA’s Identity and Data Protection group and has worked with many of RSA’s top researchers on projects involving the latest fraud and cybercrime threats. Prior to RSA, Heidi was a marketing and research manager at EKMS, an intellectual property management consulting firm. Heidi holds a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts. Heidi admits to a mild but manageable addiction to Dunkin' Donuts Iced Coffee.
To me, online dating these days is not much different than online fraud. I speak from personal experience on both – as someone who has experienced the thrills of online dating sites (NOTE sarcasm here) and has the privilege of witnessing the latest online scams that fraudsters pull on a daily basis. I live in both worlds – and trust me, they are not much different.
Most consumers know what a virus or a Trojan is, but if you threw the word “scareware” at them, you might get a look as though you were an alien from another planet. Scareware is no different than any other malicious software that finds its way on to your computer. But the best way to [...]
So Cyber Monday has arrived, and tens of millions of consumers will be hitting the cyber waves to shop for the best holiday deals around. Most of them will be doing it on company time (myself included, I admit), but hey, my son really wants that video game and I can save 50% today only. But while Cyber Monday is packed with unbelievable deals for holiday shoppers, it is also a time when consumers need to take notice to ensure they don’t fall victim to fraud, and retailers and banks need to be on guard.
For Cyber Security Awareness Month last October, I took up a project to research ways we could keep our kids safe online throughout the year. A colleague introduced me to an organization called United Parents. The company has a very cool technology that enables parents to actively monitor the risk level of their child’s online activities without disrupting their privacy. For example, if your child was being bullied online by a classmate via a social networking site, the technology makes connections between various words and phrases in instant messages, for example, and then sends you an alert.
