by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 29, 2021 | Scam of the day
Recently Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and its National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) announced that they had discovered 225 million stolen emails and passwords that were compromised in multiple data breaches and were being made available to cybercriminals on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 26, 2021 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is one about which I have written in the past, however it continues to pop up frequently as evidenced by one of my long-time friends becoming a victim recently. If one of your friends received a Facebook friend request that appeared to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2021 | Scam of the day
I am sure most people are familiar with Gieco from its clever commercials which often feature a talking Gecko. Geico is the second largest auto insurer in the country and recently it suffered a data breach in which the driver’s license numbers of an, at this...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 21, 2020 | Scam of the day
Each year the password manager company NordPass does a study of the worst passwords commonly used. These easily discerned passwords make their users particularly vulnerable to identity theft. These passwords become available to identity thieves through data breaches...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 6, 2020 | Scam of the day
The Better Business Bureau is warning people about a phishing scam in which you receive an email or a text message that appears to come from Google Photo informing you that someone is sharing a photo album with you. In order to see the photographs, you need to click...