With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Think Before You Click That Link! The e-card may seem romantic, but it could mask something more dangerous, like malware or viruses that can do more than just spam your computer with ads, but could remotely take over your […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Money Can’t Buy You Love. Never Give or Wire Money to Someone You Met Online. Given that the whole point for catfishers is to get money out of people, alarm bells should start going off the moment any potential […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Never Turn Over Personal Information or Pictures You Wouldn’t Want Broadcast for the World to See. It’s not love if they ask for your credit card number or for you to buy a plane ticket, or request your Social […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. Drama Kings and Queens. Be Suspicious of Someone Who Is Always in a Perpetual State of Emergency. Once a catfisher thinks she or he has a live one on the line, they’ll test their mark to see how far […]
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are looking for love more and more online. Unfortunately, hackers and scammers are waiting to prey on online daters, hoping to steal their heart, along with their cash. If They Sound like a Bad B Movie Over the Phone, or Send Emails Full of Grammatical Errors and Weird Phrases, Don’t Go Any Further. If your Romeo has an accent that does not match up to where […]
The olive branch after the deluge of news about the JPMorgan data breach that exposed the personally identifiable information of 83 million customers was that no bank account information, or more sensitive personal information like Social Security numbers, had been compromised. What got lost in that torrent of stories was the fact that the information that did get exposed could unleash the mother of all phishing attacks. All signs point to phishing. The hackers wormed […]
The latest security alert online seems to be the work of a Walking Dead fan. Twitter is lighting up with users complaining that long-closed AOL accounts recently came back to life, with phishing emails spreading like a zombie epidemic. #AOLHacked is trending on Twitter as people are letting their followers know about the phishing emails, and venting their frustration. Hacked. Sorry. I didn't do it. #AOL #AOLHacked — Konii Thomas (@KoniiThomas) April 22, 2014 At […]
By now, most of us know that when surfing the Web we shouldn’t click on ads promising us new ways to lose weight without dieting, read emails about magic pills to boost our “egos” or even click on Twitter links about the “shocking” pictures some friend supposedly found of us online. That is, we know not to do those things from our computers. And hackers and cybercriminals know we know this, too. That’s why they’re […]
Amid all the news that hackers gave gotten their grubby little hands on millions of credit card numbers and contact information from at least 5 retailers – including Target and Neiman Marcus – many of you might be wondering what those thieves could really net from just an email address and a cancelled credit card. The answer depends on you, and what kind of “ish” you could get sucked in by. On the one hand, […]
