by admin | Sep 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Identity theft is a major problem for everyone, however college students are five times more likely to become a victim of identity theft than the general public. There are two primary reasons for their vulnerability. They live in close quarters with lax security and...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | May 19, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Any day now the FBI will be announcing that in coordination with foreign law enforcement agencies it has raided illegal users of a software program called Blackshades. Blackshades is the name for a type of software that goes by the interesting acronym RAT which...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 5, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
For years I have advised everyone to shred any documents they have containing personal information before discarding them. Identity thieves have been known to go through the trash of individuals, companies and government agencies looking for documents that contain...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 12, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although it is nowhere near as popular as it once was, America Online (AOL) is still used for email by more than 2.5 million people and that means that it will be a target for identity thieves and hackers who are constantly sending out new “phishing”...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 25, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I have explained to you many times, scammers and identity thieves are constantly exploiting vulnerabilities that they discover in the various software and hardware that we all use to make us victims of scams and identity theft. Fortunately, software manufacturers...
