This Week on At Issue, Tom Hauser is back in the newsroom.
Hauser recently travelled to Washington, D.C., where Governor Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison testified about Minnesota’s ongoing fraud issues. Hauser shares what was discussed in that hearing and how lawmakers are reacting.
Kristi Noem, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is now moving out of that position. Her departure at the end of the month will be the first major shakeup in President Trump’s Cabinet during his second term.
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, a White Bear Lake woman who was serving in the U.S. Army in Kuwait, was killed as war erupted in the Middle East. Hauser talks about how she is being honored back home.
All this and more on this week’s edition of At Issue.
Cyber fraud uses technology as the primary weapon. It is highly scalable and can be conducted from anywhere in the world.
- Phishing/Smishing/Vishing: Using deceptive emails (phishing), text messages (smishing), or phone calls (vishing) to trick victims into clicking malicious links or revealing sensitive data.
- Business Email Compromise (BEC): A high-value scam where a criminal impersonates a CEO or high-level executive via a “spoofed” email address to trick a staff member into making an urgent, unauthorized wire transfer.