TweetToday’s scam comes in the form of a threat to rat you out to the authorities for tax evasion. The perpetrator wants a bitcoin for not ratting you out to the “state’s department of taxation and finance”. Actually they want 1.4573 Bitcoins. In today’s market that’s $5,858.00. As with every other current phishing scam, it’s Continue Reading
Wizard
December 21, 2018
Bad Things in General,Malware, Viruses and Bugs Galore,Recommendations
bitcoin, Borg, email scam, IRS, Malware, resistance is futile, scam, tax evasion, threat, virus, you will be assimilated
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TweetFrom time to time I do presentations for local groups and as such I am posting my notes from these events here with useful links and additional information. I am adding some valuable links here that I cannot easily provide during my presentations, along with recommendations for some useful tools to protect your computer and Continue Reading
Wizard
December 4, 2015
Case Histories,Information,Malware, Viruses and Bugs Galore,News,Recommendations,Tech Tips
anti malware, AntiVirus, avast, AVG CloudCare, Bit Defender, Check Point, computer performance, computer security, computer utilities, ESET Nod32. Malwarebytes, F-Secure, Gdata, iBackup, IObit, IRS, Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton, Panda, passwords, scams, sophos, Spybot, trend micro, Webroot
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TweetI was reading Forbes today and they recently published a list of ten simple things you should do to protect your privacy. Given that Identity Theft is a rapidly growing problem, I thought this seemed like an excellent topic. By this point in time, most of us either know someone personally – or ourselves have Continue Reading
Wizard
October 7, 2015
Bad Things in General,Information,News,Recommendations,Tech Tips
#JUSTSAYNOTOTHEONLINEQUIZ, browser history, cash, computer, cookies, email, encryption, Facebook Quiz, Forbes, google, identity theft, IRS, LifeLock, News, online, online quiz, passwords, phone number, privacy, Recommendations, security, TACO, Tor, tracking cookies, zip code
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TweetI was so fascinated by this email I had to share it. This was snatched up by our mail server SPAM filter and it piqued my interest enough to open it up and read the whole thing (at the server level – not on my computer). These are the kinds of things that can either Continue Reading
Wizard
April 4, 2015
Bad Things in General,News
Airport, Dallas, Donald W. Freese, email, FBI, Fort Worth, IRC, IRS, money, Nigeria, scam, spam, Special Agent, Texas, United Kingdom
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