Well this was a surprise as I was simply doing my regular bill payments with my credit card. For some reason it kept getting declined and I was presented with messages such as “Financial Institution Response: Declined.” So to me it was obviously blocked for whatever reason and therefore I went ahead and contacted the
Not too long ago the company Home Depot announced that there was a breach in its payment system. This means that anyone who used debit or credit card payments may be in potential risk of it being compromised. It’s almost similar to the Target credit card breach story that happened not too long ago. What
The challenge for this episode was that the teams had to create a retail store display and product packaging to help promote the company Lifelock and its identity theft protection services. The winner would be determined by the executives of Lifelock based on brand messaging, originality and overall design. For KOTU the project manager was
Recently I have been getting a string of e-mails from what it is made out to look like it is from Google to inform me that I have an outstanding balance in regards to an advertising campaign. Although it pretty much smelled like a phishing scam, here is the e-mail: X-Account-Key: account3 X-UIDL: 1226436490.2587.pt01 X-Mozilla-Status:
I thought this story deserved some attention as it is quite incredible I thought. There was this newspaper article I read in the Vancouver Sun about con artists who are able to sell another person’s home without them even know through various tactics involving identity theft. You can read the article online here. What was
It’s about that time of year again where we all start to file our taxes with many of us hoping to get a refund. At the same time, this is when people begin to prey on the less technically savvy by stealing their personal inform or also known as phishing scams. I just received this