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eBay has been hacked – Change your passwords ASAP!

Posted on May 21, 2014

Well, another giant website has been hacked. This time it’s eBay, the iconic online auction site and digital marketplace.

eBay issued a statement this morning saying that hackers have managed to steal customer names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and encrypted account passwords. In other words, this one is BIG folks.

If you have an eBay account, you need to log in and change your password immediately. You might also want to start monitoring your credit reports along with your bank account and credit card statements just to be on the safe side.

Important: Please consider sharing this in order to warn as many of your friends as possible.

Comcast to start capping Internet bandwidth usage

Posted on May 16, 2014

If you get your high speed Internet service via Comcast (aka Xfinity), your wonderful unlimited monthly bandwidth allotment will be coming to an end.

How soon Comcast will begin capping your monthly data usage depends on where you live, and that time-frame ranges all the way from “soon” to “any time within the next five years“. [Read more…]

Beware the fake ‘Google’ email that’s currently making the rounds

Posted on May 14, 2014

scam Another day, another scam. This one is perpetrated via an email that claims to be from Google – but it isn’t.

The subject line of the scam email varies, but it usually is something like “Lookout Notice” or “Mail Notice“. If you happen to accidentally open the email, you’ll see text similar to this: [Read more…]

Bitly hacked – Users urged to change their passwords and API keys ASAP

Posted on May 10, 2014

If you have an account with the URL shortening service Bitly, the company recommends that you log in to your account ASAP to change your password and reset your API key.

Of course this will only affect you if you actually have an account with Bitly. It’s entirely possible to use the service to shorten a URL without opening an account, and plenty of people do.

If you do have a Bitly account, follow these steps to change your password and reset your API key: [Read more…]

Facebook users: Beware the dangerous “Covert Redirect” phishing scam

Posted on May 5, 2014

scam The “Covert Redirect” phishing scam has been around for a long time, but scammers are now using it to harvest the email addresses and passwords that victims use to log in to their Facebook accounts.

The scam works like this: You visit a website and like what you see, but you are asked to either “Create a new account” or “Sign in using Facebook” before being allowed to see or do certain things with the site (leave a comment for example). [Read more…]