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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

of those consumers lost money due to those scams, up from 71.2% in 2015 when BBB began collecting data. A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. “Of Change your passwords. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9%

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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

If you’re not familiar, the federal organization is the Office of Personnel Management, and OPM announced it was compromised in June of 2015, with the attackers possibly having access as early as March 2014. Thankfully, we understand how the breaches may have occurred and how to protect ourselves, which I will share with you now.