by thelanzagroup | Apr 11, 2024 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
The Staggering Cost of Identity Fraud and Protecting Yourself As someone who spent decades with the FBI investigating cybercrime and identity fraud, the latest statistics on this insidious issue are staggering, but unfortunately not surprising. A recent AARP report...
by thelanzagroup | Apr 2, 2024 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
As I present at conferences around the country, I continue to hear stories from audience members about victimization by a particular form of cybercrime, Business Email Compromise or BEC for short. The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report stated this: “In 2023, the FBI...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 28, 2024 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
I gave a speech to a local group yesterday and I received a question about Wi-Fi security, which prompted me to post the below excerpt from my book on that topic. If you had devised a technology that you wanted to market on a mass scale to generate wide acceptance,...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 26, 2024 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
Bank Robber Willie Sutton was reported as to have said, when a reporter asked why he robbed banks, “Because that’s where the money is!” Willie denied it and said that the quote was made up by the reporter. As someone who has seen the devastating consequences of...
by thelanzagroup | Mar 26, 2024 | Jeff Lanza's Blog
“I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.” Rodney Dangerfield Back in the 1920s and 30s, old-school criminals made money through kidnapping – holding people for ransom until their demands...
