Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
One of the great things about modern smart phones is their ability to run apps that perform a wide variety of useful tasks.
If you can think of something for your phone to do on your behalf, there is probably an app for it.
In reality, smart phones are in fact tiny computers, and the apps they run are actually computer programs, and there’s a downside to that: Any device that can run a computer program is subject to being attacked by hackers. [Read more…]
As you probably know, there’s a new virus making the rounds at the moment that has the entire world on edge.
This one is a real virus, not the digital kind that we’re all so familiar with these days.
Apparently this new “Coronavirus” has the potential to spread quickly, and unfortunately it can be fatal in patients that have one or more underlying medical conditions.
Luckily, there are several things you can do to help prevent you and/or your loved ones from catching this virus: [Read more…]
If you’ve been using Facebook for more that 5 minutes you’re probably well aware that hackers and scammers love targeting Facebook users with all kinds of fraudulent activities.
I’m sure you’ve seen an occasional “Yikes – I’ve been hacked!” post pop up in your newsfeed. In fact, you probably see them on a regular basis.
The thing is, many of the folks who believe their Facebook account has been “hacked” weren’t really hacked at all. Their accounts have been “cloned” instead.
While the hacking and cloning of Facebook accounts are both extremely irritating for everyone affected by the fallout, they are actually very different things and they require very different responses when one of them happens to you.
First, let’s talk about getting “hacked”… [Read more…]
If it seems like the scammers and hoaxsters never take a break from Facebook, it’s because they really don’t.
At any point in time there are numerous scammers sitting around trying to think up new ways to scam innocent Facebook users.
And as is usually the case, there’s a particularly dangerous scam making the rounds right now via Facebook Messenger.
But luckily, as dangerous as this scam is, it’s extremely easy to recognize and avoid it when you see it.
An old, but dangerous scam that targets Apple customers recently started making the rounds once again.
As usual, there are several variations of the scam, but they all work something like this…
You receive a message stating that your Apple ID has been disabled due to an “unusual sign-in attempt” or some other pretext.
Here’s an example of the message that most people are receiving. Note that this example message is in two parts: [Read more…]
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