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Thursday, nov 14
Police & Fire
Don't Fall For Them: Alert Issued For These Scams
Residents in the area are being warned about scams that seem to be on the increase. The scams provide ways for criminals will attempt to get money from people by contacting them and making up elaborate stories, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office said in the warning to residents of Dutchess and nearby counties in New York and Connecticut. In some cases the perpetrators have tried, sometimes successfully, to use the victim’s emotions about a loved one in trouble to get money. It’s common for the perpetrators of these scams to try to get money by telling people that one of their …
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FBI Issues Valentine's Day Romance Scam Warning After Woman Bilked Out Of $2M
With love in the air on Valentine’s Day, the FBI is warning that if an online courtship seems too good to be true, it just might be. Citing an incident when a woman in her 50s was bilked out of $2 million, the FBI issued an alert on Thursday regarding romance scams, which is an Internet crime that is on the rise. The FBI said that “victims - predominantly older, widowed or divorced women targeted by criminal groups usually from Nigeria - are, for the most part, computer literate and educated. But they are also emotionally vulnerable. And con artists know exactly how to exploit that vulnera…
Police & Fire
Westchester Business Owner Targeted During National Bomb Threat Scare, Police Say
A Westchester business was one of the hundreds targeted nationwide last week as part of a bitcoin bomb threat scheme that made the rounds through email. On Thursday, Dec. 13, law enforcement officials investigated hundreds of bomb threats that targeted schools and businesses nationwide, including several in New York and Connecticut. Officers from the Scarsdale Police Department were dispatched to Fox Meadow Road on the day of the bomb threats, where a victim reported that she had received an email to her “Songs for Seeds” business account. Police said that in the email, the suspect stated …
Lifestyle
Facebook Hack Update: 14 Million Had Additional Data Stolen, Including Search Histories
Facebook has provided an update and notified users who had their phone numbers, email addresses and other personal information accessed after a hacker gained access to the site. In a call on Friday, Facebook officials said that the FBI is “actively investigating” the breach, which impacted nearly 30 million (down from the 50 million reported last month), including 14 million users who had additional information hacked, including their location, religion and search histories. According to the company, it still does not know the full extent of the attack, and other smaller-scale attacks may h…
Lifestyle
Personal Info Of 50 Million Facebook Users Breached In Attack
Millions of people are not going to “like” hearing that a hacker gained access to Facebook accounts in the latest cyber attack to strike the company. A hacker gained access to the information of nearly 50 million Facebook user accounts in what appears to be the largest security breach in the company’s history. In a message posted on Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a White Plains native who attended Ardsley High School, said that “we do not yet know whether these accounts were misused, but we are continuing to look into this and will update when we learn more.” Facebook said that the …
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Three Area Residents Victimized By Date Site Scam, Police In Westchester Warn
Looking for that right match? Police in the area are warning residents to be careful of dating sites after reports of three people looking for love being ripped off for more than $15,000. Two women from the Queens and another from Connecticut were the victims, according to Tuckahoe Police Lt. Larry Rotta. The incidents occurred over the past eight months involving the site PlentyofFish.com, Rotta said This is how the scam works. The man meets the woman online and builds up a trusting relationship by exchanging photos, emails and text messages, Rotta said. The man then tells the woman he…
Lifestyle
Westchester Residents Clinton, Patterson Bring Book Tour To County
Wanna press palms with Bill Clinton of Chappaqua or best-selling author James Patterson of Scarborough?The Westchester writing duo will descend on Eastchester on Tuesday, June 19 to promote their new novel, "The President is Missing." Former President Clinton and Patterson collaborated on the book and will promote it at Barnes & Noble in Scarsdale. Clinton headlined news again this week after his NBC "Today" show comments about Monica Lewinsky, as reported here by Daily Voice. Clinton and his fellow novelist James Patterson will be at Barnes & Noble Eastchester …
Lifestyle
Change Your Password, Twitter Tells All 336M Users After Bug Found
Are you a Twitter user? Then you should change your password. The social media company discovered a bug that saved user passwords on an internal log without proper encryption, it announced on Thursday. "We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone," the company tweeted. "As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password." In a blog post you can read here, Twitter said, "we found this error ourselves" and is "implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again."
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Warning From Homeland Security, FBI: Russia Wants To Hack Your ISP Router
With the entire world watching what turn the international Russian conflict takes next, federal officials are warning area residents that a cyber strike could be the newest threat as hackers target routers and other network devices. The Department of Homeland Security, FBI and United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint Technical Alert on the “worldwide cyber exploitation of network infrastructure devices (such as a) router, switch, firewall, Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) devices by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors.” Officials said that targets are p…
Business
150 Million Users Of Popular App Exposed In Data Breach
Millions of Americans may have had their user data stolen from a popular Under Armour health application, according to Under Armour, which alerted users to the security breach on Thursday. As many as 150 million accounts were stolen from the MyFitnessPal app last month, including usernames, email addresses and scrambled passwords, in one of the biggest such breaches of its kind. According to reports, more sensitive information such as social security numbers, driver’s license numbers and details from payments were not impacted. In a statement, Under Armour officials said they became aware o…
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