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Scam Alert: Did you ‘Like’ one of the Russian Facebook pages that posted fake news during the 2016 election? Find out right now!

Posted on January 23, 2018

Unless you were living on another planet during the 2016 election cycle you probably know that fake Russian Facebook pages posted tons of links to fake news stories about the candidates.

What you night not have realized at the time is any “Likes” and “Shares” you might have made on those posts were helping spread “fake news”.

This isn’t an accusation in any way. As we all know, it was very easy to get taken in by those sham pages. That being said, I thought you might be interested in knowing for sure whether you interacted with any of them.

Luckily, it’s very easy to find out if you interacted with any of those infamous fake Russian Facebook pages. Here’s how: [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the insidious ‘Amen’ scam that’s targeting Christians on Facebook

Posted on November 16, 2017

As you probably know by now, Like and Share Farming is a popular method used by scammers to quickly build successful Facebook pages that they can use to scam other Facebook users.

In a nutshell, the scammer uses innocent-looking (and often heart-tugging) posts to attract thousands of “Likes” and “Shares” to a new page to make it “popular” among the Facebook community.

Well, there’s a rather insidious form of “Like and Share Farming” taking place right now, and it’s targeting Christians.

These posts are simply another variation of the “Feel Good Posts” that I have written about in the past.

The current scam typically works something like this… [Read more…]

Scam alert: If you’re using the ‘Fast Secure Contact Form’ plugin on a WordPress blog you need to remove it, ASAP!

Posted on November 13, 2017

This is a heads-up to all my fellow bloggers…

If your blog is using the popular WordPress plugin Fast Secure Contact Form you need to remove it ASAP and use a different plugin to create your contact forms.

It really pains me to have to recommend this course of action because this has long been one of my favorite plugins. [Read more…]

Scam alert: CCleaner has been hacked. If you use it you need to download the latest version, ASAP!

Posted on September 18, 2017

CCleaner has been one of my favorite Windows cleanup tools for years, and I’ve recommended it to countless other folks during that time.

Unfortunately, CCleaner’s maker Piriform has just announced that hackers have somehow managed to break into one of their servers and add malicious code to a recent build of the CCleaner software.

That means if you recently downloaded CCleaner to your PC or installed a recent update, your computer could well have malware on it. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Equifax hack leaves almost half of all Americans subject to identity theft

Posted on September 8, 2017

As you’ve probably heard by now, credit reporting giant Equifax has been hacked in what is being described as the largest security breach in history.

According to the company, the breach may have affected up to 143 million Americans. That’s almost half of the entire U.S. population.

And when you consider that millions of our fellow citizens are children who aren’t even in Equifax’s system, you can see that the odds are quite high that you and I are among those affected. [Read more…]