by JDC | Sep 2, 2020 | News
Identity fraud is big business. In 2019, Cifas, the UK fraud prevention service, recorded 223,163 cases on its National Fraud Database – a staggering increase of 18% on the previous year and the sharpest rise in the last five years. But while banks,...
by JDC | Aug 3, 2020 | News
There is not much that Jan Goward does not grow in her small Eastbourne garden. “I grow everything,” she says. “I’ve got the exotics: the aubergines, the chillies …” But some mystery seeds she received in the post this week – ostensibly from Singapore, and marked as...
by JDC | Jul 24, 2020 | News
Twitter witnessed the biggest security breach this month as approximately 130 high-profile accounts were targeted as part of a broad crypto scam. Some of the compromised accounts belonged to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Kanye West. These...
by JDC | Jul 12, 2020 | News
U.S. considers banning Tik Tok At this point, Tik Tok’s relationship with China is no secret. China-based ByteDance owns the short-form video platform and has reached a global audience from the start. It has attempted to distance itself from the the Chinese...
by JDC | Jul 5, 2020 | News
When customs agents in Riga followed a tip and searched passengers arriving on a private jet from Ukraine last year, they hit the jackpot. Luggage belonging to the four travelers contained about $1 million in U.S. and European banknotes. The contraband was seized...
by JDC | Jun 19, 2020 | News
“They’re exploiting the fear, uncertainty and doubt people are experiencing during the pandemic, and using the anxiety and desperation to get people to buy things or click on things they wouldn’t have otherwise,” says Morgan Wright, a former...
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