Welcome back to “A week in security.” Last week, we took a look at how deleted files can be recovered, explored…
Tag: scam
Scammers often come crawling out of the woodwork in all sorts of places you wouldn’t necessarily expect. This is to their…
Everyone knows about phishing. We’ve all heard that the solution to phishing is to educate the user as, after all, it…
Always be on your toes While we are used to receiving scam attempts pretending to be from banks, online shops, credit…
Last month, the FTC announced the recovery of 10 million dollars from Advanced Tech Support, one of the most successful US-based…
Crowdsourced funding opportunities via Kickstarter, Patreon, and GoFundMe have removed many structural roadblocks for people to access capital quickly and conveniently….
Phishing continues to be a criminals’ favorite for harvesting user credentials with more or less sophisticated social engineering tricks. In this…
Who likes threats? Nobody, as it turns out. That hasn’t stopped scammers from jumping on the menacing email train – next…
Users in English speaking countries are quite familiar with the Nigerian scam: an important guy in Nigeria needs your help getting…
I’m not saying an email claiming to be from the “Central Bank of Nigeria” with a contact handler named “Rev. Goodluck…