Posts Tagged ‘caution’
IN THE HEADLINES: New Facebook Scams to Watch Out For
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● February 1, 2012
It’s been another busy week for Facebook scams, with all kinds of dangers to watch out for. And many of these scams are based on pitches for free gift cards that end up taking instead of giving. First up is the “One Free Amazon.com Gift Card (limited time only)” scam. This has been popping up [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Top Android Trojans You Should Try to Avoid
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● January 18, 2012
If you use an Android-powered smartphone or tablet, you’re not alone. I use them, too. And so do millions of others. In fact, Android is now so popular as a platform for phones, tablets, and other devices Google recently claimed that around 700,000 new Android devices are being activated every day. Adding to the more [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Identity Thieves Start Working the Phones
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● November 23, 2011
One of the reasons identity theft is such an epidemic is that there are so many ways to commit it – steal mail, blast out phishing emails, hack a database, or simply buy identities on a street corner. But for years, security experts have been suggesting, and maybe hoping, that at least you should never [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Zeus Banking Trojan Circulating on Facebook
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 13, 2011
This is certainly a piece of malware that you don’t want on your computer, because its next stop will be your bank account. Zeus is part of a family of what are referred to as banking Trojans. This particular type of malware has wreaked havoc on bank security systems over the last few years, costing [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Beware of “Hotel Transaction Error” Scam
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 12, 2011
As vacationers across the country hit the roads for end-of-the-summer getaways, scammers as usual, are not very far behind. Scams and identity theft in the hotel and hospitality industry are nothing new, in part because scammers love to target places where there are plenty of people who may be too busy, too distracted, or moving [...]
FACEBOOK SCAM: Tag, Click — and You’re It.
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● July 15, 2011
This morning, IDGuardian posted an alert on the Facebook fan page about this clickjacking scam, but as it has appeared several times in the administrator’s Facebook feed, a blogpost is in order. You may see in your feed a posting similar to this: Confirmed by BloggerClick.com, this is another clickjacking scam.
VIDEO REPLAY: Concerns for Small Businesses (with Neal O’Farrell)
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● May 18, 2011
Continuing this week’s attention to National Small Business Week, IDGuardian has stepped back into its video archives to present a special video replay of Neal O’Farrell and his advice for small businesses and strategies against identity theft, credit fraud, and security breaches. These audio and video columns can be listened and or viewed to in [...]
The IDGuardian Podcast: Episode #016 — Reflections (and Cautions) Concerning the 2011 Javelin Identity Fraud Survey
Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● February 11, 2011
This week, Javelin Strategy & Research released their 2011 Identity Fraud Survey. Since 2003, Javelin Strategy & Research has conducted this survey in order to provide a detailed, comprehensive analysis of identity fraud so that consumers and businesses better understand methods for prevention, detection and resolution. The survey is comprised of a nationally representative sample [...]
Episode #016: Reflections (and Cautions) Concerning the 2011 Javelin Identity Fraud Survey [ 5:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIN THE HEADLINES: More Facebook scams surface
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 23, 2010
I love Facebook. I just want to put that out there. I think it has changed the way individuals, families, businesses, and governments come together, connect, catch up, share, influence, and vent. But as we all know, when you create something so big and so quickly, and give hundreds of millions of people around the [...]
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