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Scam alert: Are you being spied on via your own webcam?

Posted on May 12, 2025

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The ingenuity of hackers, thieves and other miscreants is unlimited it seems.

Every day they come up with new ways to scam, hack and break into computers in order to steal bank account and credit card numbers, photos, addresses, phone numbers and other pieces of sensitive information.

One of their most devious tricks is hacking into people’s computers and spying on them via their own webcams. [Read more…]

Why you should enable Two-Factor Authentication on absolutely everything

Posted on January 28, 2025

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The long chain of data breaches that have been in the news of late should be a huge wake-up call for everyone who is concerned with their online security.

It seems that every day or two we hear that another online service has been hacked and their customers’ personal information stolen.

Short of simply closing all of your online accounts, there’s really nothing you can do to prevent the services you use from getting hacked since the security of their servers and software is entirely out of your control.

There are a couple of things you can do however to limit a successful hacking attack’s effects on your own life: [Read more…]

How to protect your Facebook account from hackers

Posted on May 3, 2024

Facebook accounts are preferred targets of hackers and scammers these days, and it’s easy to see why.

With roughly 3 billion users worldwide, the Facebook community at large offers hackers an enormous opportunity for scamming their way to ill-gotten gains and/or the twisted satisfaction that some receive from wreaking havoc on a massive scale.

It isn’t Facebook’s fault, really. After all, they provide all the technical tools we need in order to keep our accounts safe from hacking attacks. [Read more…]

Want to make a quick $10 million? Turn in a hacker.

Posted on March 8, 2024

Could you use an extra 10 million bucks? Yeah, me too.

Well there’s a very easy way to earn up to that amount, and you can do it quickly, in a 100% legal manner.

In fact, it’ll be the U.S. Government that’s paying you.

So what is this magic ticket to quickly becoming a multi-millionaire? [Read more…]