Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
As you probably know, Facebook is a favorite playground for scammers and hoaxsters.
It seems like a new scam or hoax pops up on a daily basis, and right on cue we have another one making the rounds.
This scam is targeting users via instant messages send via Facebook Messenger.
The actual scams being perpetrated vary quite a bit but most of them typically work something like this: [Read more…]
As you probably know, many free download sites attach additional “drive-by” downloads to the files you download from their sites to your PC.
A relative handful of those “add-on” programs are actually beneficial, but the vast majority of them are simply junk that will bloat your system and slow it down.
Even worse, some add-ons that claim to provide a useful service are actually malware that will spy on you and/or do nefarious things and make it look like you’re the culprit.
One of the most insidious “drive-by” add-ons that you’re likely to ever encounter is a program called S5Mark. [Read more…]
Do you have a blog or other type of website that you’ve registered a domain name for?
If so, you need to know about a scam targeting domain owners that’s making the rounds yet again.
As you know, when you registered your site’s domain name you were required to supply your postal mailing address and email address as part of the registration process.
Both of those addresses are part of the official registration info that can be publicly accessed by anyone on the Internet by running a simple “Whois” query on your domain name.
Well, scammers are “scraping” the postal addresses and/or email addresses from the “Whois” info for every domain they can find and sending the domain owners realistic-looking, but scam invoices for renewing the domain.
There are several clues that can help you identify most paper domain renewal notices as nothing more than scams: [Read more…]
By now you’ve probably heard about the dangerous VPNFilter malware that’s attacking routers all over the globe.
If you haven’t, this is an insidious strain of malware that could potentially allow a hacker to take control of your router and use it for a wide variety of illicit purposes.
What’s more, the malware can even remove itself after a time and brick your router in the process. [Read more…]
Have you ever used a hotel’s secure Wi-Fi network while staying there as a guest?
How about the secure Wi-Fi network that serves the building you work in – or even the network at your church?
Many of us routinely use these types of secured Wi-Fi networks without giving them a second thought, because…well, they’re encrypted, and therefore safe, right?
As a general rule these secured networks are indeed safe and we can use them without having to worry about having our usernames, passwords and personal info being stolen.
But now there’s a new danger in using secured Wi-Fi networks that you need to know about. Hackers and scammers have begun setting up “Evil Twin” Wi-Fi networks that mimic an establishment’s real, legitimate network. The scam works something like this: [Read more…]
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