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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: The popular ‘Unseen’ browser extension has started spawning SPAM popups to ‘go.mobifoth.com’

Posted on May 15, 2017

Has your web browser started spawning popup windows that display a web page with the SPAM URL go.mobifoth.com?

If so, the culprit is likely the popular browser extension “Unseen”.

If you’re unfamiliar with this extension, you can read more about it in this post that I wrote a while back. [Read more…]

Scam alert: Weebly has been hacked. Change your password ASAP!

Posted on October 26, 2016

scam Popular website creation service Weebly has been hacked, and the hackers were able to steal the usernames, email addresses, passwords and IP addresses belonging to over 43 million customers.

Weebly claims that the stolen passwords were in encrypted form, but if you have an account with them I strongly recommend that you log in to your account and change your password immediately. As they say, “better safe than sorry”.

They also claim that no credit card or bank account information was stolen, but I recommend that you monitor any accounts that are connected with your Weebly account for unusual activity anyway. Again, “better safe than sorry”.

Unfortunately, this Weebly breach is just the latest in a long string of successful hacking attacks, and I don’t see that string coming to an end any time soon. Therefore, I have a few suggestions for protecting all of your online accounts:
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