by admin | Apr 12, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Many of you may remember that the apparent deadline for credit card companies to issue new EMV chip credit cards to replace the old style magnetic strip credit cards and for merchants to install new card processing equipment to handle those transactions was October 1,...
by admin | Apr 11, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled its complaint against Kirit Patel and two companies he operated, Broadway Global Master Inc. and In-Arabia Solutions regarding bogus debt collection practices. People seeking personal loans will often turn to online...
by admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last November I reported to you about the tentative settlement of the lawsuit brought by former Sony Pictures Entertainment employees against the company that related to the massive 2014 data breach at Sony in which sensitive personal information including Social...
by admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Here is a link to Steve Weisman’s latest column for USA Today which deals with the data breach at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, which, ironically, is the unit of Verizon that helps companies deal with data breaches. However, as indicated in the column, there is...
by admin | Apr 9, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although security patches are very important, I try not to make them the topics of consecutive Scams of the day, but today’s just issued security update to Adobe Flash is of such critical importance that I am breaking that rule. Adobe has just issued an...