by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 25, 2021 | Scam of the day
Google recently released a new study that it did in conjunction with researchers at Stanford University in which it studied more than a billion malicious emails targeting gmail users. The study has a number of interesting points that can help us all protect ourselves...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2021 | Scam of the day
We learned a few days ago that the grocery and pharmacy chain Kroger had suffered a data breach of which it first became aware on January 23rd, but did not notify its customers of the breach until a few days ago. In a statement released on February 19th, Kroger...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 3, 2021 | Scam of the day
Personal information including names, email addresses, city, state and zip codes, dating preferences, birth dates, marital status, dating preferences and body details of 2.28 million users of the dating site MeetMindful have recently been discovered to have been made...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
People in Ohio have reported receiving an offical looking email that appears to come from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in which people are lured into clicking on links purportedly for information about applying for Pandmic Unemployment Assistance...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 6, 2020 | Scam of the day
Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the email which download malware or providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are nothing new. ...