by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 20, 2019 | Scam of the day
Serious data breaches continue to plague both businesses and government agencies and threaten the security of all of us. Earlier this month I told you about a data breach that affected the records of 11.9 million patients of Quest Diagnostics one of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 19, 2019 | Scam of the day
Airbnb is a deservedly popular service that connects homeowners wishing to rent a room or their entire house with vacationers and other travelers in 190 countries around the world. Unfortunately, anything popular with the public is also popular with scammers and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 18, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have written many times about ransomware because it continues to be a major problem to business, governments and individuals alike. Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often unwittingly through clicking on links in spear phishing...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 17, 2019 | Scam of the day
The phrase “canaries in the coal mine” refer to the practice years ago of bringing canaries into coal mines because they were sensitive to small amounts of dangerous carbon dioxide and were useful in recognizing early the presence of dangerous carbon...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 16, 2019 | Scam of the day
Ingenious identity thieves are always finding new ways to phish for your passwords and other personal information in order to use that information to make you a victim of identity theft. I have written many times in the past about phishing emails and text messages...
