by admin | Nov 2, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Police in Philadelphia are warning people about an email presently circulating threatening to expose the person receiving the email as having cheated on his wife unless a ransom of $2,000 is paid through bitcoins. The email reads in part, “Let’s cut to...
by admin | Jun 28, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
I have been reporting about Ransomware to you since 2012. Ransomware is the name for a type of malware that when downloaded on to your computer encrypts your data and restricts your ability to access your data. The hacker who infected your computer will have a...
by admin | Apr 7, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The Tewksbury, Massachusetts Police Department became the latest in a long list of police departments that became a victim of ransomware, the malware that, generally through phishing, manages to become downloaded on to the department’s computers that locks and...
by admin | Jan 8, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Earlier this week, the British Company Bitstamp was forced to suspend its operation following a hacking of the company in which five million dollars worth of Bitcoins, the electronic currency, was stolen. Hacking is not unusual in the world of Bitcoin exchanges. In...
by admin | Oct 17, 2014 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Dropbox is a popular service that enables you to store photos, documents and other information in the cloud. Hackers are claiming that they stole close to 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords and have posted some of these on Black market websites offering to...
