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As you surely know by now, scammers and hackers are always working overtime to take advantage of innocent Facebook users.
Unfortunately, scammers are quite active on other social media sites as well.
Right now there’s a very dangerous phishing scam being spread via instant messages on Instagram.
Have you ever taken your laptop or desktop PC into Office Depot (now Office Depot/Office Max) for a free “PC Checkup” or some other service?
If so, did you end up paying them big bucks to remove malware from the machine?
Well, if you did you were probably scammed.
Lots of Mac users have started receiving pop-up messages stating something like this:
“Apple wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.“
Questions about this pop-up are currently being asked in most all the popular Mac support forums online, and as you can imagine these folks are quite concerned that something untoward is happening with their Macs.
Well, their concern is indeed warranted because the “Apple wants to make changes…” pop-up is likely being caused by malware. [Read more…]
Do you allow your web browser to store the passwords to your online accounts?
I realize that stored passwords make using the Internet a lot easier, but truth be told it’s a very dangerous practice.
I wrote a post a while back that explains several reasons why using stored passwords is a bad idea, but now another reason has come to light. [Read more…]
A popular recurring Facebook hoax has started making the rounds again, and it has lots of Facebook users scrambling to share it with their friends.
It’s the old “Facebook No Swearing Campaign” hoax, and it’s filling up newsfeeds right and left.
In a nutshell, the hoax consists of an image stating that Facebook will shut down the accounts of any users who use profanity in their posts starting on April 1, 2018.
The message also states that this policy is being implemented due to a new “law” issued by Facebook’s legal department.
This is what the current iteration of the hoax message looks like: [Read more…]