Oct 27, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
‘PAY THE RANSOM – OR WATCH ME WRECK YOUR LIFE’: Chilling New Fraud Email That Says You’ve Been Filmed on An Adult Website At first, the message seems harmless – an email pops up on your screen that could be from a friend or colleague. But click...
Oct 27, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Hacked, Scammed And On Your Own: Navigating The Cryptocurrency ‘Wild West’ When Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke learned in January that hackers cracked a 40-character password and cleaned out their cryptocurrency wallet, they did not go to the police or...
Oct 20, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security
‘I Could Ruin Your Business Right Now’: A Sim-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom Jared Goetz was at dinner when someone used his American Express card to buy a $39,000 web domain. Goetz wasn’t too concerned, he told Motherboard in a phone call: He told the...
Oct 13, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Breach, Bug, Hack. When Does A Business Have A Responsibility To Inform Its Customers? For months, Google has been trying to stay out of the way of the growing tech backlash, but yesterday, the dam finally broke with news of a bug in the rarely used Google+ network...
Oct 13, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security
Face It! You’re Going To Be Hacked, So Set Up Your Financial Accounts Like You’re Going To Be Hacked In the past week alone, Experian, Facebook and Google have all experienced (or divulged, in Google’s case) security breaches of various levels of seriousness,...