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Yahoo Hack: Are You Affected?
Yahoo has fallen victim to the world’s biggest data breach and, as a consequence, so has much of the world. The company says that 500 million accounts were exposed in a huge hack that it has said was carried out by
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Ransomware at High Risk in Thailand
Ransomware attacks, exploit kits and ATM malware are the biggest cybersecurity threats in Thailand, says a global security software company. “Thailand ranked among the top 10 countries in Asia-Pacific with the most number of ransomware attacks,” said Myla Pilao, technology
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Ransomware Next Target
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated how vulnerabilities in everyday connected devices can allow hackers to hold whole areas of your life to ransom. Ransomware is perhaps the biggest cybersecurity scourge of 2016, becoming increasingly problematic both for individuals and businesses of
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Restaurant Tipping Fraud Revealed
NJ.com – Do you tip your waiter with your credit card or in cash? A restaurant waiter in Mount Laurel was arrested for tampering with customers’ tips when they paid with credit cards, making us wonder how often this crime actually happens. We took the
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Prevent Electronic Money Scams
The majority of people work hard for their money, and believe it or not fraudsters are also busy creating new ways of tricking the unsuspecting banking public into divulging critical financial details so that they can eventually steal from them.
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Man Scams Boy Scout
OCALA, FL. — A Boy Scout was scammed while selling popcorn and snacks for his troop outside a Florida Walmart. The thief used a fake $100 bill to rip off the 12-year-old. RELATED: Most Likely Scam Victims Police say the man
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IRS Failed to Notify 1M People of Identity Theft
The Internal Revenue Service identified nearly 1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related identity theft from 2011 through 2015, but almost none of the victims were informed, a Treasury Department watchdog found in a report made public this week. “Employment-related
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Most Likely Scam Victims
Stereotypical scam victim have been characterized as either elderly or uneducated, however, new research by the BBB shows that 69% of victims are under the age of 45, and 78% hold a college or graduate degree! The truth is scammers are
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Real Estate Agent Jailed Over Fraud
James Robert Lyons, 38, stole the money over a two-year period between 2011 and 2013 while working as a commercial real estate agent. He diverted investor’s money that should have been paid into a trust fund into his own account.
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Yahoo Promotion Scam
Most people ignore their spam folders, but if you were one who received a message congratulating you on winning something from “Yahoo, Inc,” with the subject line simply reading “Yahoo Promotion”, then you might have been the latest victim of an online Yahoo Promotion
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