Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Issue #691 Cloudeight InfoAve Premium Newsletter, Issue #691, January 6, 2017 is available online right now. If you’re not yet a subscriber, you can get a free subscription here. We NEVER share your email address with anyone! We’d love to welcome you as a new subscriber. Here are some of the things we feature in… Read More »
Shodan – Search Engine for the IoT As most of you know, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other popular search engines, crawl the Web looking web pages, images and other types of files. But there are other types of search engines too. Today, we’re going to tell you about a search engine for the IoT (Internet of Things), called “Shodan”.… Read More »
Popcorn Time or Et Tu Brute? There’s a new ransomware making the rounds. It’s called “Popcorn Time”. Like all ransomware, it locks your personal files using file encryption and then demands a ransom in order to unlock your files. Unless you pay the ransom — or find the right decrypter – you can’t access your own files. The… Read More »
Don’t Fall for the ScanGuard Scam We are still getting emails from people who write asking about ScanGuard. A few weeks ago, we wrote an article about ScanGuard, but legitimate tech sites are advertising ScanGuard now, and many of you think because you saw it advertised on a legitimate tech site, that ScanGuard is also legitimate. What it… Read More »
Yahoo Hacked Again… Time to Run Away From Yahoo Two days ago we wrote an article advising all Yahoo users to close their accounts due to Yahoo’s lack of security and apparent inability to deal with it. Just when we thought it could not get any worse with Yahoo … it just got worse. This time, Yahoo admits that… Read More »
Online Remote Computer Repair Scams Are Everywhere Every week, we get several emails from people who have fallen for a computer repair scam. They have given their credit card information and access to their computers to criminals — and it usually always starts with a phone call. It goes like this. The phone call comes unexpectedly, out of… Read More »