by admin | Mar 21, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scammers have no sympathy for anyone as evidenced by the many scams that are based on obituaries. For years, scammers would scan the obituaries and then go to Social Security’s Death Master File where the names of deceased Americans are available along with...
by admin | Mar 20, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently, Javelin Strategy & Research issued its annual Identity Fraud Study and it is quite enlightening. The study found that almost 13 million people were victims of identity theft last year at a cost of 16 billion dollars. One of the more interesting trends...
by admin | Mar 19, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many of you undoubtedly will remember the infamous Heartbleed bug which I warned you about last April. Heartbleed was the name of a long standing security flaw in the OpenSSL encryption security technology used throughout the Internet. Eventually, this flaw was...
by admin | Mar 18, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Premera Blue Cross has just disclosed that it had been hacked since May 5, 2014 causing a data breach that was only discovered on January 29, 2015. As a result of the hacking, by presently undetermined hackers (although early indications again point the finger at...
by admin | Mar 17, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Not all scams are perpetrated by scammers working in the shadows. Sometimes scams are done by major companies and that is what the Federal Trade Commission is alleging in its recent lawsuit filed against DirecTV, the country’s largest satellite television...
