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AI and Elder Abuse
AI and Elder Abuse, copyright 20025, Steve Burgess The news is full of AI (Artificial Intelligence) stories. How will it empower us in our jobs? Whose job will it take next? Is it creating actual fake news? While there’s a lot of “we’ll see” in the answers to these...
Email spoofing, scamming, and hacking
Email spoofing, scamming, and hacking, Copyright 2024 by Steve Burgess Email domain spoofing scams With fortunes, privacy, and identity fraud at stake, we have had a number of cases involving phishing and spoofing in the past few years and into the present where...
AT&T Data Breach and Hack: What Does it Mean to Me?
AT&T Data Breach and Hack: What Does it Mean to Me? copyright 2024, Steven Burgess It was ginormous. It included almost all wireless customers from 2022. Did you have an AT&T phone or other account in 2022? You’re one of 110 million (gasp). You be hacked, my...
Somebody deleted stuff off my phone (I swear it wasn’t me!). Can I get it back?
- Copyright Steve Burgess 2024 Your phone is suddenly losing text, videos, photos. What’s happening? Are they gone forever? Have I been hacked? How do I avoid this in the future? What’s happening? Of course, it’s hard to tell without some history of the phone’s use,...
CSI Cases from Burgess Forensics #69 A Case of Hiphop Beef
The Stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. It was almost closing time on Friday and my thoughts were turning to Barbequeing some of that mouth-watering Santa Maria tri-tip while my nose was turned to the scent of...
Printers and Copiers Left Out the FBI’s Search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago
Printers and Copiers Left Out of the FBI’s Search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago copyright, 2022, Steve Burgess We’ve only recently learned the content of the search warrant that the FBI used to search the premises of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort and...
Email as a signed contract vs. fraudulent emails
Email as a signed contract vs. fraudulent emails We all send and receive email, but did you know that what you say in an email can be interpreted as a legal contract? And that sometimes, emails are fraudulent? Both are true. The Statute of Frauds Although email didn’t...
Cyberwar History and Ukraine
Cyberwar History and Ukraine People are much more drawn to images of blown-up building, fires, mushroom clouds, refugees in dire circumstances, color pictures of pain that are better in black and white than they are to explanations of code or even fallout from code if...
El Salvador Adopts BitCoin
El Salvador Adopts BitCoin copyright Steve Burgess, 2021 El Salvador just passed a law to make BitCoin (BTC) legal tender and is the first country to do so. It did something similar back in 2001, when it made the US Dollar the official currency, replacing the...
Keeping Your Bitcoin Safe
BitCoin. Everybody wants some. But what’s the best way to keep it safe once you’ve got it? And how to get it? First things first – you get BitCoin (and Etherium, and DogeCoin) from a cryptocurrency exchange, like you would from a “regular” currency exchange to turn...