by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It has been six years since Microsoft informed its customers that it would no longer support the Windows XP operating system, thus giving its users plenty of time to install a newer operating system, such as Windows 7. Without continuing technical support, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 29, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Microsoft has issued a warning to people not to open files with the rtf extension due to a vulnerability that Microsoft has just discovered that could enable a hacker to send you an email with an .rtf file attached that if you download will enable the hacker to take...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 9, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Phishing is the term for a scam where you are lured to a phony website and either induced into providing personal information to what you think is a legitimate company or even a government agency or persuaded to click on what appears to be a legitimate link only to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 24, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
A few days ago the University of Maryland disclosed that personal information of more than 300,000 students, faculty and other university employees connected with the university since 1998 was stolen by computer hackers. In a statement disclosing the data theft, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 26, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although at the present time, Target continues to maintain that although 40 million debit and credit card numbers were stolen in the recent second largest retail hacking in American history, the all important PINs for the debit cards that were part of the hacking were...
