by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 17, 2020 | Scam of the day
Bookseller Barnes & Noble announced that it had suffered a data breach which it only recently discovered. Fortunately, customers’ credit card information appears not to have been compromised in the data breach, however, some personal information including...
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. | 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...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 2, 2020 | Scam of the day
I have been warning you about the dangers of ransomware for five years, but today’s ransomware story has a different twist to it. Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often unwittingly through clicking on links in spear phishing...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 16, 2020 | Scam of the day
Two days ago, Twitter accounts belonging to many prominent people including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg and many more prominent people along with company Twitter accounts of Apple, Uber,...
