by admin | Jan 3, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The pattern which most data breaches of major companies follow and which I described in a column in USA Today in September http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/09/27/hacking-target-home-depot-credit-card/16221427/ has apparently happened again,...
by admin | Oct 13, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Yesterday, I told you about Dairy Queen becoming the most recent company to announce that it had been hacked. Today, it is my duty to tell you that Dairy Queen has lost that honor to Kmart, which, in a filing with the SEC announced that it too had been hacked and...
by admin | Oct 12, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Dairy Queen announced a few days ago that it had become the latest company to become a victim of a major data breach at 395 of its stores by way of the infamous “Backoff” malware downloaded on to the computer systems of the affected stores by first hacking...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 29, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI is investigating an apparent hacking of banking giant J.P. Morgan and as many as four other banks by what initially appears to be sophisticated hackers from Eastern Europe. Some are theorizing that the hacking was sponsored by the Russian government in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 25, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In my Scam of the Day for August 1, 2014 I first warned you about the danger of the malware referred to as “Backoff” as described in a warning issued by the Department of Homeland Security on July 31st. Backoff is the name of a type of malware that is...
