With little more than a week until Tax Day (April 18th), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning citizens that scams are on the rise and are encouraging extra caution when filing your returns. Scammers love to take advantage of chaos. Whether it be the fear of the pandemic or the stress of the holiday […]
With the increased popularity of NFTs, there comes another trend that people will hate—NFT scams. Unfortunately, whenever there’s something you can invest your money in, there will always be a group of people who are trying to take advantage of others. You’ve probably already heard of NFT scams all over Twitter or the news, but […]
New Delhi: The official Twitter account of the University Grants Commission (UGC) India was hacked on Sunday. The breach has come to notice when some unidentified hackers took control of UGC India’s Twitter account and posted a long thread of irrelevant tweets tagging numerous unknown persons across the world. The hacker has also used a […]
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Days after the Himachal Pradesh high court expressed displeasure over the investigation into the multi-crore scholarship scam in the state, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested seven persons, including top employees of various private educational institutes, officials said on Saturday. Those in the CBI net are Gulshan Sharma, owner of ITFT, New Chandigarh; Vikas […]
04/08 Update below. This post was originally published on April 5 Chrome users, you need to act. Google has confirmed another highly dangerous hack of Chrome, its third in 10 days. Here is everything you need to know to stay safe. A new zero-day high threat level hack has been found in Google Chrome LIGHTROCKET […]
Operating under the premise that “everyone who works hard deserves the opportunity to succeed,” the folks at Antioch-based nonprofit Opportunity Junction are working on a fundraiser to help continue to offer education and career counseling programs to Contra Costa County residents. The virtual 2022 Imagine Gala will feature a silent auction and special event April […]
Gretchen A. Peck | for Editor & Publisher In the simplest of terms, Section 230 — or, more formally, Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934, enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act in 1996 — distinguishes platforms from publishers. Publishers can be held liable for content they produce and disseminate, but the […]
– Advertisement – Saint Lucia police have warned citizens to beware of internet car sales scams in which criminals target unwary individuals. The criminals offer vehicles for sale, invite buyers to a rendezvous to obtain the item, and have held up and robbed the unfortunate victims in several instances. In one of the latest examples, […]
Are you familiar with the unpopular saying, “Lagos is not for the weak.”? To survive in Lagos, you have to be bold, ambitious, and most importantly, street-smart. Only when you possess these characteristics can you survive in a city where random strangers yell at you for no reason, and everyone walks as though they are […]
