by admin | Aug 13, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
It has been ten months since the switch to the computer chip EMV credit cards was mandated for credit card issuers and merchants in order to avoid liability for fraudulent charges yet many stores still haven’t made the change. Here is a link to my latest column...
by admin | Sep 23, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As the October 1st deadline approaches for retailers to switch over to using the new EMV credit cards containing a computer chip that creates and encrypts a new number every time the card is used, a recent poll taken by ACI Wordwide indicates that 59% of American...
by admin | Dec 9, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Last year’s massive data breach at Target was the first of a series of data breaches that continue unabated to this day with no end in sight. While millions of Target customers were inconvenienced by the theft of their credit card or debit card information,...
by admin | Oct 21, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Staples, the popular office supply store is the latest major retailer to be hacked and suffer a data breach. As I have written many times before, including in a column for USA Today in which I wrote about the data breaches following the same pattern each time, the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 3, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
According to the old saying, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Reports have surfaced of yet another major data breach similar to the kind we first saw with Target and repeated regularly since then. As usual, it is not the company...
