Ransomware Victim Pays $599 and Remained Hacked After clicking on a malicious ad, an Oahu man found himself the victim of a ransomware attack. The man clicked on the ad, to immediately have his files be encrypted by the cyber criminals. The ransomware message from the hackers, displayed a support phone number for the victim […]
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ISP Regulations Repealed — Your Browsing Data Now Available to Highest Bidder Yesterday, April 3, 2017, President Trump signed a law repealing ISP regulations on selling consumer’s browsing data. The law is not going to take effect until December of 2017. Once the law does go into effect, ISPs will have the authorization to sell
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Forsyth Schools Hacked Forsyth Public Schools, located in Montana was the victim of a major hack over the weekend. They are uncertain when the hack began, but was identified on Saturday, April 1, 2017. According to Last Best News, the school received three emails prior to the attack, saying they had to pay a ransom
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Officer Assists Local Resident with Phone Scam South Lebanon Township Police Department, in Pennsylvania, was able to help a local resident avoid becoming the next victim of a support scam. The resident originally contacted the police department, afraid he was the victim of a ransomware attack. When the police department arrived, the individual had allowed “tech
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McDonald’s Canadian Website Hacked An estimated 95,000 people applied for jobs at various Canadian McDonald’s restaurants from March 2014 to March 2017. Unfortunately, all of these applicants had their information recently hacked. The leak was a direct result of the company’s online application site being breached. According to The Record, the breach is believed to occur
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New Business Venture? Take These Tips Starting a business requires not only courage, but a plethora of knowledge, and calculated risk. Rob Cheng, CEO and founder of PC Pitstop, makers of PC Matic, PC Matic Pro and PC Matic MSP, shared with CNET the top tips new business owners should know. First, spend money on
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Several people believe backing up your data is critical to staying safe from malware attacks. However, backing up your data has benefits beyond a malware attack. For instance if your hard drive crashes, you’ll lose everything. Unless you’ve backed it all up. So, do you back up your data? Please take part in our survey
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“Can You Hear Me Okay?” Consumer alerts have been booming regarding recent phone scams that are hitting nationwide. Scammers are calling, claiming to be from customer support teams. All they want to hear you say is “yes”. Often times the phone call will initiate as simple as, “This is Tom Jones from customer support services.
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Crusader Malware Manipulates Contact Information A new malware deemed Crusader has been found being installed on PCs all over. The malware is actually an add-on to free bundle software programs. By granting Crusader the permission they request, users are authorizing contact information found within ads to be manipulated. Therefore, a legitimate ad could be altered
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Long Lasting Firefox Scam A Firefox scam has been going on since early 2016, and it won’t seem to go away. The scam is a screen that randomly populates which states there is a critical update that user must install. In order to do so, the user is directly to download a Java Script file,
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