by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 24, 2025 | Scam of the day
Today’s Scam of the day is yet another major data breach. This time the victim of the data breach is the University of Phoenix, a popular private for-profit primarily online university with 97% of its students attending through their computers. The university...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 9, 2024 | Scam of the day
In the over twelve years that I have been writing Scamicide, today and tomorrow represent the second time that I have ever had to write about data breaches on consecutive days. This is an indication of how common serious data breaches have become. This situation is...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 6, 2020 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about the dangers of ransomware for five years, but today’s development is something we have never encountered before. Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often unwittingly through clicking on links in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 23, 2020 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about the dangers of ransomware for five years, but today’s ransomware story involves the first reported incident where a ransomware attack has actually resulted in a fatality. A hospital in Germany was forced to turn away patients...
