Inc.: Beware Dangerous Shopping Apps Impersonating Major Brands’ This Holiday Season
The arrival of holiday shopping season brings with it a plethora of new shopping-related scams, and the revival of some old ones.
One scam that seems to pose serious risk this year is that of fake shopping apps – smartphone and tablet apps that appear to be from major brands, but are not. These apps are present in multiple appstores, creating a major risk to shoppers.
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Joseph Steinberg is a cybersecurity expert witness and advisor, and a Lecturer on Cybersecurity at Columbia University in NYC. He has led businesses in the information-security industry for over two decades, and has written books ranging from the best-selling Cybersecurity for Dummies to the official study guide for a CISO certification exam. He is one of only a few dozen people worldwide to hold the suite of advanced information security certifications, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, and CSSLP, indicating that he possesses a rare, robust knowledge of information security that is both broad and deep; his information-security-related inventions are cited in well over 500 US patent filings.
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