by Steve Burgess | Jul 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two Factor Authentication Fraud – copyright Steve Burgess, 2025 One of the better ways to protect yourself from online fraud is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). This scheme is also known as 2-Step (or dual-step) Verification or Authentication, or Multi-Factor...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 23, 2025 | AI, Cyberbullying, Elder Abuse, Uncategorized
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...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Steve Burgess | Jul 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Steve Burgess | Jun 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
– 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...
by Steve Burgess | Feb 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
