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Who Is Falling for COVID-19 Scams…Lots of People

May 2, 2020 | Agencies, Banking, Banking, Biological Viruses, Business, communication, Consumer, CoronaVirus, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial, fraudster, Government, Hackers, Internet, News, Phishing, Phishing, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, scam, Security, Smishing, Technology, Vishing

Who Is Falling for COVID-19 Scams…Lots of People Hackers are spreading their scams widely in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, and unfortunately, tricking many people into clicking on these fraudulent spam offers. Having been sequestered in our homes and feel...

Thank you Coronavirus – Governments Are Watching Us

Apr 25, 2020 | Agencies, Biological Viruses, Business, China, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Cybercrime, Economic Disruption, Expose Client Functions, Government, industrial espionage, Internet, Malware, Monitoring, Monitoring, Privacy, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Remote-Work, Security, Security Alerts, Surveillance, Technology, Technology, trojans, Tyranny, Unsecured Devices

Thank you Coronavirus – Governments Are Watching Us Quarntines are meant to help control those who are capable of infection from interacting with the general populace. It is not meant to curtail all economic activity of the society. With this pandemic,...

Contact Tracing = Limited Privacy

Apr 25, 2020 | Android, anonymity, Apple, Applications, apps, Big Tech, Biological Viruses, Business, contact tracing, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-19, Epidemiology, Google, Government, Internet, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Monitoring, Monitoring, Pandemic, Privacy, privacy, Public Health, Quarantine, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security, Surveillance, Technology, Technology, Tracking

Contract Tracing = Limited Privacy Inital projected models for the spread of this novel virus were designed specifically to ramp up fear. Big Tech and Governments are working on ways to try to control the spread of a pandemic that frankly is really not much worse than...

Stimulus Payments Easy to Intercept

Apr 18, 2020 | bank account information, Business, fraudster, Government, Internet, IRS, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Stimulus, stolen identity, Technology

Stimulus Payments Easy to Intercept If you are expecting a check from the US government you may be in for a surprise if you are one of the millions that are not required to file a tax return. For these people, the IRS has set up a site where they can give...

Big Tech Contact Tracing – Antithetical to American Society

Apr 18, 2020 | Apple, Big Tech, Business, contact tracing, Covid-19, Epidemiology, Google, Internet, Mobile Phones, Pandemic, Phone, Public Health, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Technology

Big Tech Contact Tracing – Antithetical to American Society The way that public health follows infection of a population is by tracing the contact of infected persons, and testing them is known as contact tracing. It is how epidemiologists aim to reduced...

Google sent users 40,000 warnings of nation-state hack attacks in 2019

Apr 4, 2020 | Agencies, Business, Business Email Compromise, Censorship, China, Cyber breaches, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, DOJ, Economic Disruption, FBI, Fines and Penalties, FTC, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Hacks, Internet, Internet Service Providers, IoT, Iran, Journalists, Law Enforcement, Malware, Malware, Monitoring, Nationstates, North Korea, Patching, Phishing, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulation, Security, Security Alerts, Smishing, Social Engineering, Surveillance, Technology, Technology, Third - Party, third-world, Threat Analysis, trojans, Updates, Vishing, Web Tools, Zero-Day

Google sent users 40,000 warnings of nation-state hack attacks in 2019 Google’s threat analysis group, which counters targeted and government-backed hacking against the company and its users, sent account holders almost 40,000 warnings in 2019, with government...