Smishing is sending a faked text to your phone in an attempt to gain personal information. This personal information can be used to gain access to other accounts.
Here’s a link with more information. It’s targeted at me, as a service provider, but it provides you with information you need as well.
How to beat ransomware: prevent, don’t react, from MalwarebytesLabs. The one thing I would add to this article is further emphasis on backup. I can’t emphasize it enough. No matter how attentive you are, you cannot absolutely be certain that you won’t get hit by ransomware. You can be careful, but most people use their…
The key takeaway from this is getting apps from the app store for whichever device you have or, if you can be certain, from a trusted source. More and more online activity is done with mobile devices, and the threat continues to increase. If you want details on the warning, ZeroDayRAT takes over iPhone and…
Top 3 Myths about Hackers on Facebook from thatsnonsense.com provides some good information, though in my experience trying to explain to people the difference between being hacked and having installed rogue software is usually futile. All they know is their computer is doing something they didn’t plan, and they want it to stop. It’s difficult…
Here’s an evaluation of Spybot Search and Destroy. I’ve also found the tool useful, but not as one’s sole protection.
In a number of webinars I’ve attended this year on information security, I have been alerted to the changes AI is making to email scams. Background Email is the most effect tool for attack that hackers have, because if an email looks like it is from a particular company or from someone known to the…
I’m writing this article so that I can refer callers to it. It’s going to be very, very basic. I’ve been getting calls from people who have been referred by my clients, generally with serious malware issues on their computers. When I look at the machine I invariably find that there is a fairly simple…