by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 7, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Illegal robocalls are easy to spot. If you receive a robocall, it is illegal. Federal law prohibits recorded sales messages unless you have given your specific written permission to receive them. Since they are illegal, you should know that you cannot trust what is...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 7, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that in a joint effort with federal authorities it had stopped a botnet affecting more than 300,000 computers around the world. As regular readers of this blog know, a botnet is a network of computers remotely operated by hackers. ...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 6, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the Department of Justice announced that it had broken up a major bank hacking conspiracy that had used a computer virus that infected more than a million computers worldwide to break into bank accounts around the world and steal from individuals, businesses...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 4, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Bank of America’s online banking website crashed a couple of days ago due to the actions of hackers. The crash left online customers unable to access their accounts. A similar problem also has happened recently to online customers of BBVA Compass Bank. The...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 4, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Twitter has announced that it had been hacked into and that the hackers managed to steal information on 250,000 Twitter accounts before the attack was shut down. The stolen information includes usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted passwords. ...
