Time for another email phishing example folks! What is phishing you say? Well, I’m not talking about going to the cabin up north to catch some fish…I’m talking about scammers trying to use your own technology against you thru con artistry: Often,...
Just recently, we received a request for help from a client. The client was being very diligent and suspicious of incoming emails in her spam bin. This was a particularly tricky one which used the client’s own email address in the spam email to make it look...
You may have seen the news today. Criminal hackers have released a new strain of ransomware that spreads itself automatically across workstations in a network, causing another ransomware scare across the globe. Experts believe the ransomware was first distributed via...
Wikipedia’s definition of a virus hoax fits perfectly to a recent email question posed by one of my clients on an email she received: A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipient of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain...
As reported at Securityweek.com, there has been a massive data security breach at large online marketer Epsilon. You may have found this out for yourself in your inbox this morning with notifications from several popular stores and banks that are customers of Epsilon,...
With the mass increase in use of social networking, blogs, and Internet usage around the world – the very nature of personal privacy is changing. Companies looking to hire individuals do not just run a criminal and credit check, they Google your name and search...