by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 2, 2021 | Scam of the day
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has designated February 1-5th as Identity Theft Awareness Week. The Coronavirus pandemic has contributed to a dramatic increase in identity theft with the the FTC reporting that it received approximately 1.4 million complaints of...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 19, 2019 | Scam of the day
Identity theft is a serious crime that can result in financial harm and tremendous disruption of the lives of its victims. In 2007 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enacted regulations called the Red Flags Rule and the Card Issuers Rule that required banks, credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 12, 2019 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
The partial government shutdown keeps having more and more unexpected repercussions. One of the unexpected issues that has arisen is that the Federal Trade Commission’s website for reporting identity theft which also provides guidance in responding to becoming a...
by admin | Jan 30, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The German website Heise is reporting that 1,800 accounts of the popular online video game Minecraft were hacked, however, as a spokesman for Mojang, the developer of Minecraft was quick to point out, it was not the computers and data of Mojang that were hacked and...
by admin | Jan 13, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Yesterday, in a speech at the Federal Trade Commission, President Obama urged the passage of the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act, which would set a national standard requiring companies that have been hacked and suffered data breaches to notify affected...
