by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 31, 2020 | Scam of the day
What was old is new again and so it is particularly fitting that on the first day of the new year, we look at a recent scam about which I warned you three times back in 2017, namely ransomware attacks on medical care facilities that perform cosmetic surgery. In 2017...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 8, 2020 | Scam of the day
Not surprisingly Zoom was the most downloaded app of 2020. Zoom’s ability to enable people to virtually communicate, both for business and personal purposes, has been of tremendous value during the Coronoavirus pandemic. However, as always, anything popular...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 8, 2020 | Scam of the day
It you are like me, you probably are receiving a lot of emails that you don’t wish to read and which merely clutter your inbox. An easy way to reduce the amount of emails you receive is to merely click on the Unsubscribe tab in newsletters and other...
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...
