Note: I have checked the bitcoin address, and unfortunately it seems that quite a few victims have fallen for this scam unfortunately hanhnguyentn@mhg.com Thu 28/12/2023 23:56 In case you didn’t get last email. Pay attention now. You have used video call recently. And I have very unfortunate news for you.I’ll give you some background on…
Category: Data stealing

Securing your customer’s telephone payments. How can this be achieved? Is it even possible?
The question about secure payments is always a tough one. Most businesses have the ability to take payments using their website, this is generally accepted as a secure method, as long as the website is secured properly. But what about telephone payments? This opens up a whole new realm of insecure payments. The range of…

£17 million fine for being hacked (or 4% of turnover)
Day by day, we are seeing more and more articles related to GDPR and the impact on a business if you get hacked. One of the biggest issues, I feel, is that no matter how many precautions you put in place to secure your business from hacking, there will always be new vulnerabilities, and the…

“Hello, I’d like every single piece of information you hold on me to be deleted please!”
A simple (I hope) explanation of the new GDPR ‘right to erasure’ being enforced on the 25th May 2018. The phone call/email every company dreads. It’s a client/customer contacting us to ask us for all of their information to be deleted forever. At the moment, that important client database is the hub of my business,…

Hello? This is Microsoft calling……or is it a SCAM?
I’m fed up. Time and time again hearing about innocent people falling for scams which cost them thousands of pounds and a lot of emotional distress. These online scams are designed to prey on the young and the old although with far greater success on the elderly, mainly due to their lack of knowledge on…

They tried to charge me £216 ($296) for my data!
It’s true. A company (who shall remain nameless) tried to charge me £216 ($296) to access the data they held about me on their systems. I was moving house not too long ago, and as part of the long and tedious process, all documentation about every aspect of the property is required by your buyers solicitors…