Below are several steps you should take to stop scammers. Call your Bank When you suspect anything fraudulent has happened, call your bank immediately. Be sure to call the correct phone number, as scammers will try to impersonate your bank…
Privacy, Security and Anonymity are important to understand when doing anything on the internet. A breakdown of what each means and the overlaps they have with each other. Privacy freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, secret surveillance, or unauthorized disclosure…
Many of you purchased or received an IoT device for the holidays. Connecting them to the same network as your PCs, phones, network storage puts you at risk. IoT devices may come with network vulnerabilities that can lead to your…
On December 9th, 2021, there was a flaw discovered by security researchers in the code for a software library used for logging called Log4j. There have been three additional bugs found since then. Full Remote Code Execution can be attained…
It’s crazy to think there is any honor among thieves, but there kind of is. This past week, I found this article that talks about an underground forum being used as a court system for cyber criminals. It’s a short…
Anyone connected to the internet is at risk of being hacked. There are 4.66 billion active internet users worldwide, which is 59.5 percent of the global population. Data breaches are constantly happening to businesses. The same is true for home…
The BBB released their list of top scams to watch out for this holiday season. All of these scams are likely to catch you, the consumers and donors, off guard. Don’t let these “12 Scams of Christmas” cut your holiday…
Image by USA-Reiseblogger from Pixabay There were around six million Sky Broadband customer routers in the UK were affected by this vulnerability. The problem has been fixed, but it took over 17 months to address. The security flaw (DNS rebinding…
Image by TheDigitalArtist from Pixabay There are a few ways to do some research on posible scammer numbers that call you. You are not likely to find any real information on the person or organization that called, but you will…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay A Northern Irish YouTuber who has been scamming the scammers. He is known by the alias Jim Browning and he is our modern-day Batman. In 2014, Jim started his YouTube career. In 2018, The…
