Reminding You Again -Phone Scams Are Alive and Well Recently we’ve written some articles about online tech scams as well as other scams making the rounds on the Internet. But phone scams continue to be just as popular with scammers out to steal you money as the Internet scams are. We feel it’s important to remind you often… Read More »
See? We Told You So! Five years ago, back in 2011, we wrote a series of articles about Web of Trust (WOT). In those articles we questioned the trustworthiness of Web of Trust and advised our readers NOT to trust Web of Trust. We showed how a few WOT “community” members manipulated WOT ratings by using automated scripts… Read More »
Sometimes You Can “Recuva” Deleted Files If you have deleted something you wish you wouldn’t have, you can get it back if you press Ctrl+Z right away. But if you’re like us and sometimes the zzzzz’s aren’t the computer kind, and you fail to use Ctrl + Z right away, you may still be able to “Recuva” them,… Read More »
Have You Ever Encountered a Tech Support Scam? Take Our Poll! Tech support scams are everywhere these days. Whether it be the telephone scams where someone calls and says their from Microsoft and your computer is full of virus and malware, or online tech scams like this one we recently encounter. Whether it be by telephone or on the… Read More »
Understanding the Recent Cyber Attacks Yesterday we published an article that appeared in “USA Today” on Saturday, October 22, 2016. It seems that some of you thought your personal computers were attacked and/or personal information was stolen from sites you interact with. This is not true. We just wanted to clear things up for you. The recent attacks… Read More »
The Future of the IoT A few days ago we wrote about the lack of security on the IoT (The Internet of Things), and on Friday, the USA got a quick lesson in just how vulnerable the IoT is. We also learned how the IoT’s generally lax secuity, can affect the Internet’s biggest, most successful Web sites, a well… Read More »