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Prevent hackers from spying on you via your PC’s microphone

Posted on July 30, 2022

A while back I wrote a post explaining how hackers are using rogue apps and other forms of malware to spy on folks via their computers’ webcams.

That post also explains how to prevent it from happening.

As it turns out, some miscreants have been spying on us via our machines’ microphones as well. And in some ways that’s just as bad as having them spy on us via webcam.  [Read more…]

Facebook acting strange? It could be a malicious app.

Posted on April 11, 2021

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…]




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