by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 10, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, federal authorities arrested Jason Ray Bailey and Victor Alejandro Fernandez on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer hacking. The two men were part of an identity theft crime ring that hacked into the computers of a mortgage broker,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 9, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing is the term for a scam where you are lured to a phony website and either induced into providing personal information to what you think is a legitimate company or even a government agency or persuaded to click on what appears to be a legitimate link only to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 9, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Bitcoins have been around since 2009, but have recently been very prominent in the news and not for good reasons. Bicoins are a system of digital currency that can be used throughout the world. Unlike other online payment systems such as PayPal, there are no charges...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 8, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s scam of the day is another edition of the latest of software patches and security updates as provided by the United States Department of Homeland Security. It is of critical importance to update the software programs that you use on all of your...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 8, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Sally Beauty Holdings, a multi-billion dollar beauty products retailer with 3,300 stores around the world including 2,600 in the United States has announced that it has suffered a security breach which appears to have compromised the credit cards and debit cards of...
