New Phishing Scam Targeting Gmail Users No matter what you read, this is nothing like what happened to Yahoo users! We are publishing this because the news is spreading like wildfire today about serious phishing scam targeting Gmail users. And undoubtedly, you’re going to hear people who don’t know what they’re talking about comparing this to recent Yahoo troubles. This… Read More »
The 25 Worst Passwords of 2016 Keeper Security, makers of a password manager, analyzed over 10 million passwords to come up with this list of the 25 worst passwords of 2016. According to Keeper Security, these 25 worst passwords accounted for about 50% of all passwords analyzed. We hope you don’t find any passwords you use on this… Read More »
9 out of 10 Phishing Emails Distribute Ransomware We’ve been asked many times how people get ransomware, so we thought it might be a good idea to write an article about ransomware and how it’s distributed – and why it’s spreading like wildfire. Ransomware is everywhere these days, so it’s becoming harder and harder to hide from it.… Read More »
Shodan – Search Engine for the IoT As most of you know, Google, Bing, Yahoo and other popular search engines, crawl the Web looking web pages, images and other types of files. But there are other types of search engines too. Today, we’re going to tell you about a search engine for the IoT (Internet of Things), called “Shodan”.… Read More »
Have I Been Pwned? NOTE: 21 FEBRUARY 2020 We are no longer recommending this site however we’ve decided to leave this post on our site. All readers are cautioned to take any results obtained from Have I Been Pwned with skepticism. EB is pretty cool, she knows all the hacker terms like pwned and crack. I don’t know… Read More »
Popcorn Time or Et Tu Brute? There’s a new ransomware making the rounds. It’s called “Popcorn Time”. Like all ransomware, it locks your personal files using file encryption and then demands a ransom in order to unlock your files. Unless you pay the ransom — or find the right decrypter – you can’t access your own files. The… Read More »