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Jul
15

Ringless Voicemail Scams

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Have you ever received a new voicemail notification and noticed that you actually never received a call in the first place?

You were most likely involved in a ringless voicemail scam, but don’t worry you are not alone. In fact, estimated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), over 2.4 billion automated spam calls are made every single month. With a 60% increase from previous years, around 3.5 million complaints were issued to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2016.

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Jul
15

Personal Information of Millions of American Voters’ Recently At Risk

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In the month of June, over 198 million Americans who registered to vote in the elections in 2016 have recently had their personal information exposed while being stored online.

This was due to a political data contractor called Deep Root Analytics that was associated with and employed by the Republican National Committee. Deep Root Analytics held and then stored a massive amount of data online without any kind of protection on it including security or even a simple password. Nothing, Nada, Zilch!

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