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With Luis Alvarez

How to Spot COVID-19 Scams

How to Spot COVID-19 Scams

In a recent radio interview discussing scams involving stimulus checks and SBA loan, CEO of Alvarez Technology Mr. Luis Alvarez encapsulates the COVID-19 pandemic entirely in one sentence: “The bad guys won’t let a crisis go to waste.”

Dated Technology Hampering COVID-19 Response

Dated Technology Hampering COVID-19 Response

As U.S. unemployment rates continue to skyrocket in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, government agencies grapple with a new, unexpected issue. Unemployment claim systems facing unprecedented activity are failing and the technology used to write many of the programs is an old, little-used computer language — COBOL.