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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Thursday, July 20, 2023
• Skepticism is your best friend when it comes to the Internet
• Facebook acting strange? It could be a malicious app
• Q&A: How can I add a ‘Windows’ key to an older keyboard?
• Timelapse video: Starscapes
There are many ways for hackers and scammers to use your Facebook account to do malicious things, and make it appear that YOU are the culprit.
Most hackers simply find a way to break into your account and use it to publish SPAM posts and malicious links or spread malware to your friends via chat or instant messages.
Luckily, those hackers and scammers can be easily kicked off and locked out of your account by changing your password and enabling Two-Factor Authentication, but the truly devious miscreants can cause you all kinds of grief long after you’ve booted them off and locked them out of your account.
Yes, the really serious hackers can actually keep using your account to send SPAM and spread malware even without being able to log back in to your account.
And how they do that just might surprise you… [Read more…]
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Thursday, July 13, 2023
• Why it’s a bad idea to mount a TV above a working fireplace
• Scam alert: Scammers could be impersonating you on Messenger
• Q&A: Do WiFi cameras still work when the Internet is down?
• Ever wonder why so many people end up being miserable after they retire?
As you surely know by now, scams are everywhere on the Internet these days.
Unfortunately, many of the most insidious scams pose as ways to help people who truly are deserving of our help.
One of the latest scams to rear its ugly head targets folks who have a desire to do something to help veterans who have been injured in combat.
Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Friday, June 30, 2023
• How to enable ‘Battery Saver’ mode on your Android phone
• Scam alert: Beware of ‘friends’ asking for help on Facebook
• How to (almost) always get the most recent results for a Google search
• Video: 4 Days on the Blue Ridge Parkway