by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 3, 2025 | Scam of the day
Recently the media has been filled with reports of millions of Gmail email addresses and passwords being compromised, however, compromise of this information was not, as some assumed, a result of lax security at Google. Rather the data breach relates to the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 7, 2024 | Scam of the day
The headline of this Scam of the day may be a bit confusing because dual factor authentication is not itself a scam, but rather a tool to avoid being scammed. It is not unusual for passwords to be compromised, particularly if you use the same password for all of your...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 19, 2024 | Scam of the day
Recently, the streaming service Roku announced that it had suffered a data breach in which personal information of 576,000 of its customers was compromised. This was the second data breach affecting Roku this year. However, the fault is not primarily with Roku as...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 30, 2023 | Scam of the day
The University of Minnesota has become the latest school to disclose that their computers had been hacked and personal information including Social Security numbers of students, faculty, staff, former students and even people who merely applied to the school was...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jun 25, 2023 | Scam of the day
The headline of this Scam of the day may be a bit confusing because dual factor authentication is not itself a scam, but rather a tool to avoid being scammed. It is not unusual for passwords to be compromised, particularly if you use the same password for all of your...
