by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
Recently, the federal government issued a warning to business leaders to be ready for inevitable cyberattacks during the Christmas and New Year period. Many times in the recent years, major cyberattacks and data breaches occurred over the holidays when businesses,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2021 | Scam of the day
I am sure most people are familiar with Gieco from its clever commercials which often feature a talking Gecko. Geico is the second largest auto insurer in the country and recently it suffered a data breach in which the driver’s license numbers of an, at this...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
We learned a few days ago that the grocery and pharmacy chain Kroger had suffered a data breach of which it first became aware on January 23rd, but did not notify its customers of the breach until a few days ago. In a statement released on February 19th, Kroger...
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. | Nov 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Black Friday is the name given to the day after Thanksgiving, which traditionally is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, one in which retailers often lure shoppers with tremendous bargains. Criminals do the same thing. On the Dark Web, that part of the...
