by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 31, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. announced the arrest of thirteen people for identity theft perpetrated through skimmers installed in gas pumps at gas stations in Texas, Georgia and South Carolina. Skimmers, as I have told you many times...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 30, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As if we all didn’t have enough to worry about now we have the Internet of things about which to be concerned. As more and more of the things we use become connected to the Internet including but certainly not limited to cars, refrigerators, coffee makers and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 29, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
“The Postman Always Rings Twice” was a classic movie from 1946 that was remade in 1981 starring Jack Nicholson. Perhaps the postman always rings twice, but scam artists only need to ring once to hook you into a scam that can add hundreds of dollars to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 28, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
This past weekend, Chuck Rubin, the CEO of Michaels, the country’s biggest arts and crafts stores issued the following statement: “We are concerned there may have been a data security attack on Michaels that may have affected our customers’ payment...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 27, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A few days ago, Coca Cola disclosed that a number of laptops had been stolen from its corporate headquarters in Atlanta. These laptops had personal data of up to 74,000 people and, most disturbingly, the data had been stored on the laptops totally unencrypted. The...
