WikiLeaks, the CIA and You Most of you have heard about WikiLeaks publishing reams of top-secret (classified) CIA documents, many of which pertain to the tools and methods used by the CIA to spy on or hack targets. If you’re looking for a juicy anti-WikiLeaks or Anti-CIA exposé, you won’t find it here; I’m quite sure many other… Read More »
Microsoft is NEVER Going to Tell You That Your Computer is Infected In the past, most people who have run into the Tech Support or Microsoft Tech Support Scam have been contacted by scammers and warned by telephone that their computers are infected or compromised. But lately, it’s been the fake “your computer is infected with **you name… Read More »
Report Claims 94% of Windows Users Are Suceptible to Various Calamities Hopkam Lewis Associates, a calamity research firm, disclosed in a report released on Friday, that 94% of all Windows will be victims of various calamities during the next 12 months. According to Victor C. Nonarelnam, spokesman for Hopkam Lewis, about 95% of Windows users will experience a… Read More »
More Bad News For Yahoo Users In spite of over one billion Yahoo accounts breached, Yahoo bleeding money, and the company in chaos, Verizon is still going to buy Yahoo, although for a few hundred million dollars less than Yahoo orginally wanted. If you think your personal data is not valuable, why else would Verizon be paying over… Read More »
What is Cloudbleed and Why Should You Care? A company called Cloudflare provides web security and performance boosts to millions of websites including Fitbit, OkCupid, Uber, and Yelp and millions of others. Recently, it was discovered that Cloudflare has been leaking user data on to the Web from September 22 2016 until February 18, 2017. The leak was discovered by… Read More »
Beware of the Google Chrome ‘Missing Font’ Hack PLEASE NOTE: EMSISOFT USERS ARE PROTECTED FROM THIS HACK. This week a very well executed malware attack aimed at users who visit compromised web sites was found by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi of NeoSmart Technologies. The hack tries to trick users into believing the reason why the font on the page they’re… Read More »