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Phishing scam targets routers that use default security settings

Internet users are being warned to ensure that their routers have unique passwords, after email spammers have been spotted sending phishing links,ᅠ…

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Cybercriminals shift sights from banks to payment platforms

Nearly a third of phishing attacks last year focussed on gaining access to payment systems and e-commerce sites, according to a study by securityᅠ…

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Biz Bulletin: Be smart with smartphonesto avoid scams

Just like a computer virus, it can invade your smartphone if you click on a bad link or download an infected file. This scam has been infecting personalᅠ…

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Valentine’s Day: How to Avoid Heart-Shaped Cyber Scams

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Abatangle said many of the phishing scams may try appealing to the “love and lust” factor people feel to trickᅠ…

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How to spot a phishing email scheme

Bovino also said a phishing email will often urge you to act quickly trying to scare you by saying an account of yours, or your computer has beenᅠ…

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Phishers Pounce on Anthem Breach

Phishers and phone fraudsters are capitalizing on public concern over a massive data breach announced this week at health insurance providerᅠ…

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Porter PD warns of computer virus phone scam

A savvy Porter resident recently put the kibosh on a phone scam and had some fun doing it, Porter Police said. But PPD Lt. John Lane is still warning …

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Internal Revenue Service says Beware of Bogus IRS Emails

In reality, it’s a scam known as “phishing,” attempting to trick you into giving out your personal and financial information. The criminals then use this

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1 in 5 Employees Will Open Suspicious Email and Fail to Notify IT …

While only better education may prevent employees from falling prey to a phishing attempt, real-time monitoring capabilities built into Courion’s provisioning and

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Indian Microsoft Computer Virus Scam – 441138680309

The phishing scams come by phone too. It happened to a friend of mine. He had a new computer, but had been on vacation a couple weeks. They got a call from “Microsoft” saying they had a problem with there computer. (Microsoft is never going to call you and say this) My friend let them remote login to his computer and they went to the Event Viewer to see if there are any errors. I’m afraid there are always errors in the Event Viewer on a Windows PC. If a program times-out waiting for a response from another program or something it will generate an error in the Event Viewer. Anyway, they asked for $250 to fix the viruses and errors

Read below the 800notes Forum entry about a recent phone phishing scam from the UK …..

Got a call from this number: 441138680309 , which showed up as 4-113-868-0309 on my telephone. I found out later that the country code is +44 which is for the

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