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The Active Shooter: Responding and Preventing Mass Shootings
Almost every day the news presents for us another story about the latest incident involving a mass shooting. Just in 2021, a mentally disturbed individual killed eight persons at various Atlanta business locations. In the Denver area, a grocery store …
TAX FRAUD AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FRAUD AT EPIDEMIC LEVELS
The Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced in its annual report last November that the IRS “uncovered $2.3 billion in tax fraud during the 2020 fiscal year” (IRS Releases Annual Report Identifying $2.3 Billion in …
The Cyber Threat Landscape Will Get Worse Before (and IF) It Gets Better
With October Cybersecurity Awareness Month at the halfway point, it is important to note that cyber-thieves and ID theft criminals never rest and continue to stay ahead of law enforcement, businesses and consumers.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched by the …
Medical ID Theft Risks Increase During the COVID-19 Crisis
Since people started working from home due to the COVID-19 crisis, the risk of financial and non-financial identity theft, fraud and scams have significantly increased.
Keyword phrases such as cybercrime, cyber thieves, data breach, digital spying, identity theft, personal privacy, …
Who is the insider threat at your company?
I just attended the Blackhat 2019 Conference – which is the largest information security event in the world – on August 7-8 and listened to a very informative presentation by John Grim Managing Principal – Americas, Verizon Threat Research Advisory …
Apps Are A Bigger Personal Privacy Threat Than Facebook
When was the last time you read the terms and conditions or adjusted the privacy settings of your smartphone apps or social-media accounts?
On Wednesday (July 24, 2019) the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Facebook “will pay a record-breaking …
4 Data Breach Recovery Tips For Businesses
According to a June 4, 2019 Security Magazine article, “cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing more than $654 billion to U.S. organizations.” Personally identifiable information (PII) was the most targeted data, with 54 percent of stolen …
Your Cell Phone Number is a Threat to Your Personal Privacy
I read with great interest an article a titled Phone numbers are the new Social Security numbers (please see here ) that highlights how “cellphone numbers have become a primary way for tech companies like Facebook to uniquely identify users …
Spying or Hyperbole? What Attorney General Barr’s Comments Mean
President Donald Trump has long insisted that the Justice Department under President Barack Obama spied on his campaign during the 2016 election, so he welcomed his attorney general’s apparent validation of that allegation during a Senate hearing Wednesday.
“I think …