by admin | Jul 23, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, twenty-nine year old Andrew Helton was sentenced to six months in prison for hacking hundreds of Apple and Google accounts including many of celebrities and stealing 161 nude or partially nude photos from thirteen people. I first reported to you...
by admin | Jul 22, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I reported to you in March a tentative settlement was reached between Home Depot and the plaintiffs in a class action on behalf of the 56 million victims of Home Depot’s massive data breach which occurred between April and September of 2014. The tentative...
by admin | Jul 21, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Recently it was disclosed by the security research firm Proofpoint that a twelve year old malware program known commonly as NetTraveler has been used by Chinese hackers against Russian and Eastern European targets exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Word...
by admin | Jul 20, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In July of 2014 I first reported to you about the hacking of the computers of the Houston Astros baseball team. After a prolonged investigation, Christopher Correa of the St. Louis Cardinals pleaded guilty in January of 2016 to hacking the private online data base...
by admin | Jul 19, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes from the email of a Scamicide reader. I am sure that the same email has been sent to many of you, as well. This is just another version of the Nigerian email scam. Although it may seem that the Nigerian email scam began in the...
