by Joseph Forbes | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, Emailed, HACKING, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY, SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Ransomware is on the rise these days. It can hold your computer and your data hostage with the threat of losing your data for good unless the ransom demand is paid. You should never pay these criminals a dime because doing so only encourages them to continue pulling...
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by Joseph Forbes | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog Entry, HACKING, Internet Scam Notices, Malware Reports, SECURITY
When I wake up, the first thing I do is reach over for my smartphone and check for emails I might have received overnight. During breakfast, I catch up on current events via my tablet. Whenever I have downtime at work, I check my bank account online and make any...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 11, 2017 | Emailed, Internet Scam Notices
Spam is amazing. In an unprecedented and astonishing effort, junk email reaches almost everybody online. All it takes to get on the mailing lists used by spammers is an email address. There is no need to sign up for anything or ask for emails. The spam just starts...
by Joseph Forbes | Jun 10, 2017 | HACKING, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
Check Point Threat Intelligence and research teams recently discovered a high volume Chinese threat operation which has infected over 250 million computers worldwide. The installed malware, Fireball, takes over target browsers and turns them into zombies. Fireball...
by Joseph Forbes | May 31, 2017 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, HACKING, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals
Ransomware cyber attacks are quickly becoming the preferred method of attack by cybercriminals. WannaCry, the latest global incident, is particularly damaging because it is also a worm—not just a ransomware program. As a result, it looks for other computers to spread...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 11, 2017 | DATA, Emailed, Technicals, Troubleshooting
If your inbox is suddenly getting filled with emails from “mailer daemon”, here’s what you can do. To be clear, what’s happening is (we’ll go into more detail below): Email has been sent out and the recipient can’t be found (or...
