by admin | Apr 29, 2018 | Scam of the day
The small Massachusetts city of Leominster last week paid a $10,000 bitcoin ransom to cybercriminals who had infected its school district’s computers affecting every school in the city. Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often...
by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | Scam of the day
As was made abundantly clear by last year’s massive Wannacry ransomware attack that focused on a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system for which Microsoft had already issued a security update, constant updating of the software we all use with...
by admin | Oct 26, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often unwittingly through clicking on links in spear phishing emails, encrypts and locks all of the victim’s data. The cybercriminal then threatens to destroy the data unless a bounty is...
by admin | Jun 28, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As shown by the recent massive WannaCry and Petya ransomware attacks that took advantage of computer users that had not patched their Windows operating system with available updates, constant updating of the software we all use with the latest security patches and...
by admin | Jun 27, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
According to the old saying, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Reports are rapidly surfacing of another massive ransomware attack involving, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, India and the UK similar to the attack of only a few weeks...
