Other LanguagesIt's Safer Internet Day. Attorney General Rob McKenna marked the day with a call to action on legislation to protect against technology-wielding criminals. McKenna was flanked by U.S. Attorney Jim McDevitt, sponsors of two bills recommended by his Youth Internet Safety Task Force, Look Both Ways author Linda Criddle and task force members during a press conference Monday at the state Capitol.
Data Privacy Day slipped right past me yesterday. ... The educational campaign's timing certainly is right. Just last week, payment processor Heartland Payment Systems reported what might be the biggest data-loss incident of all time. Monster.com also had a scary breach. ...
Unemployed workers in Washington and the rest of the country are targets for crooks posing as headhunters, the Attorney General’s Office warned today. Scams include bogus job offers and realistic-looking e-mail messages that contain links to computer viruses or phishing sites.
In the past few months, there has been an increase in e-mail accounts being hijacked. Cons then use contact information in the victim’s address book to target their friends and family.
We frequently tell consumers to use a credit card when shopping online and to couple that with a third-party payment service such as PayPal, if possible. But today I learned about a new way to pay. It’s called a single-use, virtual or disposable card.
Attorney General Rob McKenna released his 2009 legislative agenda. Proposals to help safeguard consumers include ...
New studies shows that more than half of teenagers mention drugs, alcohol, sex or violence on their MySpace pages – information that may hurt their chances of securing a desirable job or being admitted to a choice college. But experts say getting teens to clean up their pages is possible.
Bah Humbug! Or, more specifically, Bah Computer Bug! The FBI reportedly issued a warning about e-mailed holiday cards that contain malware. Such mean-spirited greetings are nothing new; we’ve mentioned them on All Consuming several times.
Cyber Monday, a term coined by the National Retail Federation in 2005 to describe the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday, is the ceremonial kickoff for the online retail season. If you plan on clicking and saving today, the Attorney General’s Office strongly suggests that you only shop on company sites that you know and trust.
The Washington Attorney General’s Office says a Pinole, Calif., man’s mirror-image version of Russell Investments’ site violated the state’s anti-phishing law.