New York is suing cryptocurrency exchange operators Gemini Trust and Digital Currency Group for defrauding more than a quarter million investors out of more than a billion dollars. They did this, NY AG Letitia James says, by not disclosing the financial risks to investors in their crypto-lending program which went bankrupt last year. Gemini was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Great Crypto-Cop Brain Drain As if things weren’t hard enough for the cops, the ones that have been tracking down the bad crypto apples have discovered the grass is greener on the corporate side – a lot greener. And they are fleeing the government side, making things even harder for the remaining govies. Read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Who is Interested in Attacking My Little Website? I have written about this before but it is worth repeating. I have a simple firewall on my blog sites. There is nothing terribly sensitive there; it is not connected to my company’s network, but still I continue to be amazed. Yesterday there were 1175 attacks from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Old Scams Never Die, They Just Get a Fresh Coat of Paint Scammers have been posing, according to a warning by DHS, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in San Antonio. The scammers call the mark, pretending to be HSI and tell them there is a problem with their passport […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oops – Office Depot Mimics Phone Phishers Thanks to reader Gina for this one. Office Depot got caught scamming its customers telling them they had (fake) malware on their computers when they asked OD and its vendor Support.com to scan their computers. No, they didn’t have malware – just a bill for unneeded services. While […]
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