by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 30, 2021 | Scam of the day
LinkedIn is a popular social media website used by business professionals to network with other professionals. LinkedIn is used by these people to get ideas, explore opportunities and even to list job postings. Anything popular with so many people is attractive to...
by admin | Dec 15, 2017 | Scam of the day
Researcher Julio Casal recently discovered a massive data base of 1.4 billion unencrypted passwords available to cybercriminals on the Dark Web in a single file. The Dark Web is that part of the Internet where criminals buy and sell all manner of illegal and stolen...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last week a Russian hacker, Yevegeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was arrested in the Czech Republic twelve hours after an International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) Red Notice was issued notifying law enforcement officials that Nikulin who operates with...
by admin | May 22, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently 117 million email addresses and passwords of LinkedIn users captured in a 2012 data breach of LinkedIn were offered for sale on the Dark Web, which is that part of the Internet where cybercriminals buy and sell stolen data. It may seem odd, but it is not...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 13, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Data breaches are a fact of modern digital life. This week hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users had their usernames and passwords stolen from one of their databases and just within the past month social network sites Formspring and LinkedIn had their databases hacked...