by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 16, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I often say, the security of your private information that, in the wrong hands can make you a victim of identity theft, is only as strong as the security of the weakest entity that holds your information. Unfortunately, this was again proven to be correct when it...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 15, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I have told you many times previously, identity thieves are constantly searching for and then exploiting vulnerabilities in the software we use for purposes of identity theft and scams. The makers of the software we use are also constantly working, but they are...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 14, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Some of the most insidious and effective scams and identity theft schemes are the simplest. One that has been recently been reported in Mississippi, Utah, Texas and Pennsylvania but is also making its way around the country is a scam that begins when you receive a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 13, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently the California Attorney General’s office released its report pertaining to data breaches in California and the results are quite disturbing. More than 2.5 million Californians were victims of the 131 reported data breaches that occurred in California...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 12, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Identity thieves regularly manage to exploit vulnerabilities in the common software programs that we use. Java software has proven to be such an effective target for identity thieves that the Department of Homeland Security has even gone so far as to advise people to...
