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Copyright 2025, Steve Burgess Yes, social media is fun. It helps to keep us in touch and stay in relationship with friends and loved ones. Even folks you haven’t seen or heard from in decades. And, as we all know, our kids are the most beautiful, creative, intelligent...

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...

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? 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...

- 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,...

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...

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...