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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…]
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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Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
I receive hundreds of tech questions each week, and many of them are about Facebook, the world’s most popular social networking site.
I could write a book about Facebook’s many idiosyncrasies and the various ways to deal with them, but that’s for another day.
In the meantime, I thought I’d simply take a few minutes to share a few of my most popular (as determined by reader response) Facebook tips in this week’s newsletter: [Read more…]
We’ve all seen them in our news feeds, and most of us have “Liked” and “Shared” them at one time or another. I’m talking about “Like and Share bait posts”, and Facebook is now starting to penalize Pages that publish them.
Like and Share bait posts typically contain images that consist of a touching photo along with a written message that tons of people are sure to agree with. After all, plenty of folks have a daughter they love with all their heart, right?
The common thread between all of these bait posts is that you will be asked to “Like” and “Share” the post if you agree with the message or find the image to be “touching” in some way.
Sounds harmless, right? Well, it really isn’t. [Read more…]
It seems that hackers and scammers are willing to do virtually anything to steal control of your computer, your online accounts and your sensitive personal information these days.
The latest scam making the rounds takes advantage of our natural curiosity about what might have happened to the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. [Read more…]