Phishing: What to know before you start your online holiday shopping
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Phishing: What to know before you start your online holiday shopping

  As we head into the holiday season, more and more of us do at least a portion of our holiday gift shopping online. More people doing online shopping attracts more online criminals. From the beginning, we all are aware of the Nigerian (419) Scam where a wealthy foreigner who needs help moving millions of…

The Equifax Data Breach: What to Do
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The Equifax Data Breach: What to Do

                                                                                                                                                                                              (Adobe Stock Images) September 8, 2017 By: Seena Gressin Attorney, Division of Consumer & Business Education, FTC If you have a credit report, there’s a good chance that you’re one of the 143 million American consumers whose sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach at Equifax, one of the nation’s three major…