by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 6, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, AntiSec, a hacking group often associated with the larger, more familiar international hacking group Anonymous, posted on line a file that contained a million of what they said was twelve million U.D.I.D. numbers they said they had for various...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 9, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI as well as Canadian law enforcement agencies are reporting an upsurge in an extortion type of malware that is unwittingly downloaded by victims on their computers through standard phishing tactics. Once the malware is installed, the computer freezes and a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 6, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In November of 2011, the FBI broke up a botnet scam by which seven Eastern European scammers since 2007 had turned more than 500,000 computers worldwide into a botnet of malware infected computers that redirected the victims’ web browsers to sites designated by...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 29, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The late Johnny Carson used to host a television show entitled Who Do You Trust?” If there are any English teachers reading this, they know it should have been “Whom Do You Trust,” but why quibble? I bring up this trip down memory lane because if...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 31, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The FBI has just issued a warning about a particular type of malware attack originating from Russia and the Ukraine. Through phishing or some other technique, the victim is lured into downloading malware at which point a pop up warning comes up which appears to be...
