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Scam alert: Don’t fall for the ‘Help Hurricane Harvey Victims’ scams that are making the rounds

Posted on August 31, 2017

By now you’ve surely seen the heartbreaking images and videos coming out of the Houston, Texas area. Hurricane Harvey has almost completely devastated that area, and it isn’t finished yet.

Sadly, dozens of our fellow citizens and an untold number of pets are already known to have lost their lives in the flood, and those numbers are only expected to grow as the waters eventually recede.

What’s more, the scope and scale of the property damage is absolutely staggering. Hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee their homes and many of them will never be able to return.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the insidious ‘Locky Ransomware’ that’s being spread by Facebook Messenger

Posted on August 27, 2017

scamAs you probably know by now, scams and viruses are constantly making the rounds on Facebook.

The latest threat is spreading like wildfire with the help of the ubiquitous Facebook Messenger app that runs on millions of smart phones and tablets.

Commonly known as “Locky Ransomeware”, this threat is especially bad because there’s no known decryption program available for unlocking a device once it has been encrypted.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: The popular Copyfish OCR browser extension has been hacked

Posted on July 31, 2017

Copyfish is a very popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) browser extension that extracts text from images and videos so you can insert it into a regular text file.

OCR technology has been around for decades, but Copyfish and other extensions now make it easy to extract text right from within your web browser.

Unfortunately, one of the employees at A9T9 (the company behind the Copyfish extension) fell for a phishing attempt and effectively handed control of the Copyfish Chrome extension to a hacker.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Chipotle hacked with major credit/debit card breach

Posted on May 26, 2017

Did you dine at a Chipotle Mexican Grill any time between the dates of March 24 and April 18, 2017?

If so, you should know that your credit/debit card info might have been stolen by hackers.

Company officials reported earlier today that hackers installed malware on their payment systems that allowed them to steal customers’ credit/debit card data.  [Read more…]

Scam alert: Beware the sneaky WannaCry ransomware “Tech Support” scam

Posted on May 26, 2017

Scammers rarely miss an opportunity to take advantage of an innocent victim, and right now they’re using the recent WannaCry Ransomware attacks as a ruse to scam as many folks as possible.

To be sure, WannaCry is a very serious malware issue, but it’s important not to fall victim to the scams that are out there taking advantage of it right now.

The most common WannaCry related scam works something like this:  [Read more…]

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