by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 13, 2024 | Scam of the day
July 16th and 17th are Amazon Prime Day which is odd to say. Amazon really should change the name for the two day event to Amazon Prime Days. Amazon Prime Day is a global promotion of Amazon featuring sales on a variety of items available solely to Amazon Prime...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 9, 2024 | Scam of the day
Cybersecurity researchers at Cybernews reported a few days ago that they had discovered the largest collection of stolen passwords in history totaling almost ten billion passwords were posted on a Dark Web site used by cybercriminals. Cybercriminals use websites on...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 25, 2024 | Scam of the day
Data breaches have become an all-too-common feature of life today and they pose a significant threat to all of us because regardless of how careful we are at protecting our personal data, we are only as secure as the companies and governmental agencies that hold our...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 20, 2024 | Scam of the day
A Subscriber Identity Module, more commonly known as a SIM card, is an integrated circuit that stores information used to authenticate subscribers on mobile devices, such as a cell phone. The SIM card is able to be transferred between different devices, and often is,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 17, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently, Dell Technologies contacted its customers to inform them that Dell had suffered a data breach in which personal information of 49 million of its customers had been stolen. Dell downplayed the data breach saying that the information compromised was not...
