As we move into 2025, small businesses must prepare for a year in which data protection compliance and cybersecurity threats will take center stage. These challenges are set to be some of the biggest hurdles businesses will face. For many small businesses, 2024 was a...
A new wave of spam emails is spreading worldwide, using the UNICEF name and a seemingly official email in an effort to persuade people to donate money for the victims of the Gaza conflict. Spam emails and scams flooding email accounts always follow any humanitarian...
Scammers are getting creative in their attempts to take advantage of older adults. According to a recent alert by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), scammers target consumers by offering ‘free perks’ -- cooking, cleaning, or home care services—in return for Medicare...
Scammers are increasingly targeting netizens with fake job offers – chief among them ‘task scams’ that use gamification techniques to trick victims into depositing crypto in exchange for larger returns, the Federal Trade Commission warns. Reported losses to job scams...
Online romance and investment scams are painful enough without its victims being described as "pigs." And yet, for some years we've called fraud related to such frauds as "pig butchering." INTERPOL has decided enough is enough and is calling for a change in the...
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped a €251 million (roughly $263 million) fine on Meta for a data breach that occurred six years ago. Timeline of events Meta Platforms, the parent company of social media services including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook...
