Cybercrime Boot Camp #2
With news of breaches and hacks almost daily, involving every company and government agency and health care organization you do business with, you need protection. These breaches can compromise your identity and bank accounts. The problem is that no one can protect you but yourself.
There are a few things that make it worse, and kids are at the top of that list. Juniors or Seniors in high school, kids heading off to college, in college, or just graduated are all a huge vulnerability because:
SATs, The Common App, tuition payments, 529 college accounts, financial aid/FAFSA Forms, scholarship applications, student IDs, meal plans, kids’ bank accounts that are linked to yours, kids’ bank accounts that are on your integrated statement, joint credit cards, campus bookstores and textbook sellers, on-and-off campus housing all can put your financial assets at direct risk. All these things have a path to your tax returns, credit cards, bank and brokerage accounts. Hackers go through kids to get to parents’ accounts and credit cards. It is a favorite social engineering path to payload and your kids’ social media accounts, dating, and gaming platforms are easy ways in.
You need new life skills. If you don’t understand modern criminal and therefore victim behavior, you will become the latter. It’s just a matter of time. There is no containing breached data—your bank account numbers, passwords, social security number, etc.— once it’s out there. You cannot put the toothpaste back into the tube.
The good news is you can become impervious to the constant barrage of breaches that involve your Personally Identifiable Information. You can learn new behaviors, apply new principles, and implement certain methods so that your beached data actively being trafficked on the dark web no longer leads to your assets or identity.
Welcome to cybercrime boot camp.
About Rivka Tadjer:
Co-Founder & CEO
Rivka spent 20 years as a business and tech journalist, covering privacy, security, identity theft, data mining, artificial intelligence and supply chains, focusing on the sociological implications of technology: how our behavior is changing in a TikTok/Dark Web culture. Leveraging what she learned as a journalist, Rivka has spent the last 17 years zeroing on cybercrime prevention, mitigation and incident response, her research becoming forensic cyber investigation on threat intel systems and how criminals use cyber intel to target victims for financial and other crimes in the physical world. Rivka served on the White House National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), in the Cyber Security Working Group for Critical Infrastructure. She has been a C Level executive at fintech firms, nonprofits protecting kids, and Cyber Team Six, specializing in fraud and financial crimes. She also worked with both Cyber Intel Matrix and Hack Notice threat intel system companies, as well as other intel systems, which ZeroHack currently partners with. Rivka served on the Advisory Board of K-12 Six, a Global Resilience Federation ISAC devoted to protecting U.S. schools, and presently serves on advisory boards to combat racism, Antisemitism, and threats to the LGBTQ community. She holds a patent for co-inventing a secure payments app that replaces University Student ID cards.
About Roberto Gottardello:
Co-Founder & CSO/CISO
Roberto spent almost 30 years serving covert military operations for the United States Dept of Defense, Department of State, and other agencies. Prior to serving the U.S. military, Roberto served the SAS in the U.K. Roberto is an intelligence analyst who speaks five languages, and has conducted U.S. operations all over the world.
