As most people realize the first reason there are so many tech support scams is they are a cash cow for those perpetrating them. The second reason is those who are working to profit off of tech support scams are not just running a single scam website, they are running scams across multiple websites, all…
Read moreTech support scammers are always working to create the next great financial windfall for themselves. These scams can arrive on your screen as fake popups from Apple, Paypal, Microsoft, your Internet Service Provider, basically anything that the scammers think you’ll find believable. In an effort to educate our readers on the variety of ways tech…
Read moreThe Ask Toolbar is possibly one of the most insidious software addons in existence. Most people find they have the Ask Toolbar and aren’t even really sure how it happened. Now that Ask has been exploited it’s even more important to get rid of it. Most people acquire the Ask Toolbar as an addon to…
Read moreIt’s likely about to be a very bad day for three medical facilities and 655,000 patients whose information has been put up for sale on the TheRealDeal market, a marketplace, located on TOR, that specializes in selling numerous illegal items. In an interview from 2015 with the market’s admin, “…basically we consist of 4 partners who…
Read moreThis case is particularly unfortunate as it represents both the intense desires entities have for our personal information and likely the more concerning problem of lax security protocols. This instance revolves around a Voter database of approximately 154 million records. As anyone who does genealogy knows, voter databases are considered public records and offer a great…
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