by admin | Dec 1, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s Scam of the day comes from the inbox for my own email. It is a common phishing scam that attempts to lure the victim into clicking on a link contained in the email. If the intended victim clicks on the link, he or she will unwittingly download...
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Although the name Medical Informatics Engineering MIE or even its cloud service NoMoreClipBoard may not be familiar to you, it should be. The company operates more than 300 medical centers in 38 states. On May 26th it discovered that it had been hacked since May...
by admin | Feb 28, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Carnegie Mellon University is one of the country’s foremost universities in various areas of technology, but that does not mean that Carnegie Mellon employees are any better than anyone else at recognizing phishing emails. Phishing remains the primary way that...
by admin | Feb 22, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Income tax identity theft is a huge problem that costs the taxpayers more than 5 billion dollars a year. Identity thieves armed with an unwary victim’s Social Security number files, generally electronically, a phony tax return on behalf of the victim with a...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 9, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
In the battle to prevent identity thieves from being able to access online the bank accounts of their victims, many banks in Austria, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland have gone beyond the simple password to the more secure (supposedly) two-factor identification. With...