The Perils of Phishing, Smishing, and Quishing

By Catherine Powell

Image courtesy Pixabay

The ongoing war being wrought by hackers has been taken to a new level with a triad of tricks designed to make you cough up personal data, financial info, and credit card numbers.  Unlike many of the brute force techniques employed in the past, phishing, smishing, and quishing are meant to kill you with kindness by offering fantastic deals that are never delivered.  Some of them are so intricately crafted that you'll think you're working with a trusted entity only to find out after the fact that you've been had.  Before you fall for any of these false flag attacks, I'd like to take the time to educate you on the latest and greatest e-scams yet to have been invented.

Is Bad Santa Going to Come Down Your Chimney this Year?

By Catherine Powell

Image courtesy of Pixabay

Now that Halloween is over, the Christmas shopping season will soon kick into gear.  With it will come a deluge of holiday shopping ads on TV, in the mail and online.  Unfortunately, this is also the time of the year with the highest prevalence of fraud.  If you want to keep the Grinch from ruining your Christmas cheer, you need to keep up on all the shams, scams and flimflams that are launched by the sleigh load during the holiday season.