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Business Email Compromise (BEC) has been around for several year now. The recent crisis has created another opportunity for these fraudsters to perpetrate BEC scams. The FBI released a report today which concludes that fraudsters will use BEC scams to perpetuate frauds during the current pandemic and may interrupt the medical supply […]

Late Wednesday, April 22, 2020, the President issued an Executive Order impacting a narrow band of immigration into the United States. Effective April 24, 2020, entry into the U.S. will be temporarily suspended for individuals seeking to enter as an immigrant who: is outside of the United States; does not […]

With the Great Quarantine in effect, many people are working from home. By some estimates, as much as 47 percent of the workforce already worked from home occasionally, but now that number is much higher. With the work occurring in home environments, there are a number of cyber-security issues which […]

On Monday, April 13, we learned that the Justice Department was bringing charges against a broker who claimed to have access to 39 million N-95 masks and was offering to sell them for $750 million, but the masks did not exist. CNBC reported that Americans have already lost $13 million […]

President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act on March 27, 2020. The Act, among other things, apportions $349 billion to the “Paycheck Protection Program,” (“PPP”) which authorizes small business loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) under Section 7(a) of the Small Business Act, […]