In a move to spur the move to pin and chip cards President Obama signed an executive order directing government agencies to shift to the use of chip-and-PIN cards. The order directs the use of the...
Read More →Has Ebola hit your email inbox? The latest Internet scams, malware and viruses come in the form of email related to the Ebola virus. These emails come from various sources claiming to be agencies of...
Read More →Data breaches are becoming more and more frequent. And as an African-American you need to be afraid of this trend. Your information is being used to steal from you and others. Right now someone could...
Read More →Everyone wants a good deal. Nothing feels better than getting a nice phone, tablet or laptop at a nicely reduced price. But on the other hand there are millions of these devices lost or stolen...
Read More →Alexandria, VA- The African-American Cyber Report has joined forces with Baltimore’s ‘The Fran Allen Show’ to provide cyber news and information to her listening audience. Entitled ‘You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know,’ the ten...
Read More →Alasdair James, President and Chief Member Officer of Kmart, announced on Thursday that the company’s payment systems were hacked. Kmart’s IT team detected the breach of store payment systems. A preliminary investigation revealed a deliberate...
Read More →AT&T and the FTC have come to a settlement agreement over accusations of cell phone cramming. Federal and state regulators announced Wednesday that AT&T has agreed to pay $105 million for “cramming” unauthorized charges on the...
Read More →You want to see a black person mad? Have them pay for something and not get what they paid for. Fraud is a reality whenever you shop online. And nothing is more frustrating than not...
Read More →The FCC has hit Marriott Hotels with a $600,000 fine for blocking hotel guests personal WiFi signal. This the first time the FCC has investigated a hotel chain for blocking the Wi-Fi signals of its guests. According...
Read More →JP Morgan has set yet another record for data breaches. The financial services and banking giant reveled that 76 million households and 7 million small businesses have potentially had their private data stolen in a record...
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